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  LinkedIn ceases operations in China

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...

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  Microsoft Edge extension manifest v2 migration to v3

In June 2023, Microsoft Edge would not allow Edge extensions with manifest version before v3 to be listed on Microsoft web stores as v3 extensions add more security privacy related restrictions on some of the functions. Hence all extensions with manifest v2 must migrate to v3. In this post, we would show how we did the migration for one of our extensions and the changes made.There is a checklist provided by Microsoft Edge team on what needs to be updated so that the extension can still work in v3. It can be checked before your migration starts.The first change needs to be made is to ...

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  LinkedIn is out of China and replaced with LinkedIn Jobs

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...

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  Microsoft Edge: Banishing Painful Memories of Internet Explorer

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...

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  Bing now supports code search

In programmer's daily life, much time is spent on searching Google or StackOverflow for code snippets which can help them understand how the code works. Now there is one more option. Microsoft's Bing now adds a new feature which support code snippet search.With this new feature, you can search code snippet and execute them directly within the search results. For example, if you type "quick sort java", you will see below search result :This feature now supports a few popular programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, PHP and Python etc. It is quite similar to the code search plugin in Vi...

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  Microsoft will drop support of IE8, IE9 and IE10

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 ...

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  Here is Surface Pro 4

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...

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  Microsoft announces new Microsoft Band

Microsoft just announced a new Microsoft Band on a new product release event held in New York today. This new device is the second generation of the smart wearable device since the first generation announced around 1 year back(29 October, 2014).The biggest change of the new Microsoft Band is that it has a whole new design with curved screen. It now can be better adept to our body structure. In addition to this, there are a few other features as well. Below is a list of the features this new Microsoft Band has: Curved OLED screen with Gorilla Glass Cortana integration11 sensors includ...

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