Video-game control Kinect has since launch been sold in more than ten million copies sold worldwide…

During the sixty-first days were sold more than 130 000 copies a day, something that was recognized by Guinness World Records and gave Kinect a place in the world-famous book.

After the launch of the Apple iPad, was Apple speking well howe good the pad was selling, and claimed that it was the fastest selling consumer electronics product ever. A claim that was not true.

On the net there are plenty of videos that hackers have been published showing how the system can be used for anything but gaming and Steve Ballmer has promised official support in Windows for Kinect.
Kinect is still only use a small fraction of the potential that exists in the hardware behind the control system. Among other things, that can be used. if the cameras can take more high-resolution images than they do today, would give much better precision, including the possibility of advanced control with finger and hand movements, but also greater demands on the bandwidth required to send information from Kinect drive to the console.

I wrote about kinect for more than a year ago, but under the name Project Natal, click here to read this post

Now it is confirmed that Microsoft will release Internet Explorer 9. March 14…

The launch will take place in the event at SXSW.
Internet Explorer 9 will be released for download at 2:00 on monday morning (GMT +-0), and it is exactly twelve months after Microsoft released the first test version of IE9, I dont not know if it should be any symbolism with this.

Version 9 of Internet Explorer is only for the newer versions of Windows, to run the version 9, you need to have Windows 7 or Windows Vista SP2.
It will be interesting to see what Microsoft has done to compete with Firefox and Chrome.

This is not my post…I have get the information from BusinessInsider, and the countdown is copy stright over from their post

This is information for the real computer-nerds.
Microsoft have make som big bought over the years here will follow a countdown of the biggest 15 and whats happen after.

Number 15: Fox database software for $174 million

Microsoft bought Fox Software back in 1992 for a reported price of about $174 million. The company made the FoxPro PC database software, and Microsoft later used its underlying technology in JET, the database engine that still powers its email product, Exchange Server. The company still sells Visual FoxPro today, making this one of the few Microsoft acquisitions that contributed lasting value.

Number 14: Groove (and Ray Ozzie) for $171 million

Groove made peer-to-peer collaboration software, but as Bill Gates later said, Microsoft really bought Groove for Ray Ozzie, who eventually replaced Gates as Chief Software Architect. Microsoft was responsible for $51 million of a $150 million investment in 2001 that kept Groove afloat, and in 2005 acquired the remainder of the company for $120 million, making this one of the most expensive talent acquisitions ever. Ozzie announced plans to leave Microsoft in October 2010, and sent a stark warning memo on his way out the door.

Number 13: Placeware virtual meeting service for $200 million (estimated)

Microsoft bought this privately held virtual meeting company in 2003, and turned it into Live Meeting. Next year, Microsoft plans to phase out Live Meeting in favor of Lync Online, part of the Office 365 suite.

Number 12: Massive, in-game advertising, for $280 million (estimated)

Microsoft bought this company, which figured out how to place ads in console games, in 2006 for about $280 million. But in-game advertising never really took off, and last year Microsoft shut the unit down.

Number 11: LinkExchange, an early paid search company, for $265 million

In a classic case of missed opportunity, Microsoft bought this early pioneer in paid search for $265 million in 1998. But as LinkExchange founder Ali Partovi (pictured here) explained in an essay for TechCrunch, Microsoft shut down the service a few months after launching it on MSN Search because it was scared it would cannibalize banner advertising. Whoops.

Number 10: Rare, a game developer, for $375 million

Microsoft bought this U.K. game developer in 2002 for $375 million in cash. It took a few years, but the acquisition has probably paid for itself: Rare built the sports games for the Kinect motion controller, which launched last holiday season and immediately became a profitable $1 billion business for Microsoft.

Number 9: Hotmail for $400m to $500m (estimated)

Microsoft bought one of the first Web-based e-mail providers, privately held HoTMaiL (the capitals spell out HTML, get it?) in 1998 for a rumored price between $400 and $500 million. Hotmail is still around today, but Microsoft admits that it’s basically a break-even business that is used to drive traffic to more strategic products like Bing and Office 365.

Number 8: Greenfield Online, including price-comparison site Ciao, for $486 million

Microsoft bought this German company, which owned the Ciao brand of price-comparison shopping sites, in August 2008 for about $486 million. The site is still operating independently. In 2010, Ciao was one of the companies that complained to the European Union about how Google organizes search results, spurring an EU antitrust investigation into Google.

Number 7: WebTV, an early Internet-on-TV company, for $425 million

When the Internet first became popular, Microsoft — like a lot of folks — thought that people would want to surf from their TV. To make sure it had an offering, Microsoft bought WebTV for $425 million in cash and stock in 1997. The product sold poorly, however, and a rebrand as MSN TV didn’t help. Microsoft finally stopped selling MSN TV a couple years ago, and is focusing its living room strategy on the much more successful Xbox.

Number 6: Danger, mobile software and services, for $500 million (estimated)

Microsoft bought Danger for a rumored price of $500 million in early 2008 to help boost its mobile strategy. But the acquisition was botched by internal infighting — while the Danger team was put to work on what eventually became the Kin phone, a separate group was building Windows Phone 7. The Kin launched late and with fewer features than specified, and was can celled less than two months later.

Number 5: Great Plains accounting software for $940 million

Microsoft announced plans to buy accounting and business management software company Great Plains in December 2000 in a stock swap worth approximately $1.1 billion (the final value of the deal was reportedly around $940 million). The company turned Great Plains into its own division, Microsoft Business Solutions, and made its charismatic CEO Doug Burgum (shown here in his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota) into a minor star at the company.

At one point, executive Jeff Raikes thought that business would eventually contribute $10 billion in annual revenue. But in fact, the Business Solutions group — now called Dynamics — today accounts for about $1 billion a year in sales, and most of the growth is coming from Dynamics CRM, which Microsoft developed in house.

Number 4: FAST Search and Transfer, enterprise search specialists, for $1.2 billion

Microsoft bought this Norwegian enterprise search company for $1.2  billion in cash in early 2008. Apparently a little more due diligence was needed — the company was charged with accounting fraud and raided by police few months later. Despite the setback, FAST is becoming an important part of the SharePoint business, Microsoft’s set of server products for collaboration and enterprise search.

Number 3: Visio, design and charting software, for $1.3 billion

Microsoft bought this charting software company for stock worth about $1.3 billion in 1999. This one probably paid off: Microsoft still sells Visio and updates it with every Office release, and is estimated to have sales of several hundred million dollars a year.

Number 2: Navision accounting software for $1.45 billion

Microsoft bought this Danish accounting and business management software company for $1.45 billion in cash and stock in 2002 to round out its Microsoft Business Solutions portfolio — Navision was stronger in Europe while Great Plains (acquired in 2001) was stronger in North America. Of all the products gained in those two acquisitions, the Axapta software suite from Navision is probably the most successful, but the overall business unit never quite lived up to early expectations.

Number 1: aQuantive, advertising software and services, for $6 billion

Microsoft purchased this company in 2007 to try and match Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick — and to keep it out of rival Yahoo’s hands.

The Seattle-based company had a wide range of products for advertisers and publishers, as well as a digital ad agency, Avenue A | Razorfish. But the integration didn’t go smoothly, and eventually Microsoft refocused its advertising strategy on search.

Most of aQuantive’s leaders have left the company — CEO Brian McAndrews, shown here, was gone by the end of 2008. Microsoft has used some of aQuantive’s technology in its own ad platforms, but a lot of it was discarded, and Microsoft sold Avenue A for $530 million to ad conglomerate WPP in 2009.