Microsoft's social platform LinkedIn announced on Wednesday, August 9th, that it would cease its operations in China, ending its nearly decade-long presence in the Chinese market. This move signifies the departure of a major Western social media platform from China.Currently, when accessing LinkedIn's domain within China, users are redirected to a page that provides services for corporate clients. The mobile app for "LinkedIn Workplace" displays a message stating, "Unable to load data."As one of the few successful social media platforms operated by a U.S. tech company in China, LinkedIn, as th...

The popular job searching site LinkedIn has come out a special version for China which is just offering job searching capabilities and messaging capabilities in the connections. The social media capability like news feeds and peoples activities are stripped out.Now if you are in China and open LinkedIn app, it will prompt you and ask you to download an app called LinkedIn Jobs.You will not be able to dismiss the dialog and you are forced to download the other app if you wanna continue to use LinkedIn services. It will not work even if you fake your location or use VPN. It is still unknown...

Windows 11 launched in October, with Microsoft bringing some changes to the operating system. It was the first name change in six years, and the rollout began on October 5. The rollout is being phased on eligible devices. You can download it if you don’t want to wait for it to be your device’s turn. Some businesses are opting to defer upgrades to Windows 11, as are some individuals. Others are excited to take advantage.The following are some things to know about implementing changes to the operating system. What is Windows 11?The operating system was officially unvei...

If you are one of those unlucky early internet users, you would remember how painful those days were; like our basic computer, the browser used to take forever to load, but nothing could diminish our excitement for the latest innovation i.e. the internet. Around that time Internet Explorer was the best we had. In fact, it enjoyed more than 90% of the market share in 2003 when Microsoft bundled its browser with the Windows operating system for free.However, things began to go downhill for the Internet Explorer in 2004 when security and speed issues continued to arise in the browser and Microsof...

Former Microsoft Executive Vice President Qi Lu joined Baidu(The largest search engine in China) on January 1, 2017. Qi will be group president and COO at Baidu. He will be in charge of Baidu's products, technology, sales and marketing and operations. And he will be the second most powerful person in Baidu just behind Robin Li, the founder and CEO of Baidu. At the same time, Robin Li will step away from daily operation of Baidu.In a statement, Robin Li said “Dr. Lu possesses a wealth of leadership and management experience, and is a leading authority in the area of artificial i...

For a long time, there is a doubt among lots of Windows users especially those English speaking users, that is why Microsoft chooses Alt+F4 to close a window instead of Alt+Q. Alt+Q is more comfortable to press for many keyboards, also Q represents Quit and it is easier for people to understand. Recently Microsoft answered this doubt.Raymond Chen, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian, said the reason is that not everyone speaks English. It doesn't work that way in many other languages. You have to choose a common key sequence which people fr...

Microsoft will push the last set of security updates for IE8, IE9 and IE10 next Tuesday(January 12). Thereafter that Microsoft will drop support of these three versions of IE. These are some other old products given up by Microsoft since Windows 7.  IE11 will be the only Internet Explorer supported and Edge will be another star advocated by Microsoft.The good news is you will not get annoying notification from Microsoft anymore to ask you to upgrade your IE. But the bad news users will be exposed to more and more security vulnerabilities if continuing to use the old versions of ...

Microsoft is holding a new product release event today in New York. The biggest excitement Microsoft brings us is the Surface Pro 4. The most advanced Microsoft tablet ever equipped with Windows 10.Here are the selling points of Surface Pro 4:Performance6th generation of Intel Core processor30% faster than Surface Pro 350% faster than MacBook AirUp to 15 G RAMUp to 1TB storage8.4 mm. Thinnest Surface Pro everFour USB 3.0 portsTwo 4K display portsEthernetOne productive connectionScreen12.3 inch, bigger than 12 inch of Surface Pro 3267 PPI(Pixel Per Inch)5 million pixelsUses 0.4 mm Gorilla Glass...