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1. Save market share Microsoft confirms WIN8 users are free to upgrade Win9

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According to foreign media reports, Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Windows 9 platform will allow Windows 8 users to upgrade free of charge. It was previously said that Windows 9 would be completely free, and Microsoft was considering incorporating existing Windows XP users into the free camp. In Sunday, Microsoft Indonesian President Andreas Diantoro has at least confirmed that Windows 9 will provide free upgrades for Windows 8 users.

2. Social networking Ello turned out to challenge Facebook's business model

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A social networking site called Ello was born this week, according to foreign media reports. The site is not fast enough to accommodate new users, but it quickly grabs the media and some even call it a "Facebook killer." But it remains to be seen whether users will flock to Ello from Facebook. It is also possible that this social network will follow in the footsteps of Google +. But the site is clearly not surprisingly dead, it said on its own website, "for Facebook users are products, you think you are their God, you are wrong, advertisers are their masters." ”

The idea of a user as a product, like Facebook, is not new. Ello said that his website will never be so, this is a pure land. The site evokes long-standing dissatisfaction with Facebook. A social networking site like Facebook, which does not use Facebook's profit model, is clearly what people crave.

3. Soft silver to buy US $3.4 billion American Dream Factory animation company

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September 28 Afternoon news, according to a number of U.S. media September 27 reported that the Japanese soft silver company is working with the American animation giant DreamWorks Animation company (DreamWorks Animation SKG) to start negotiations on the acquisition, it is reported that the acquisition will reach 3.4 billion U.S. dollars.

The US "Hollywood Reporter" reported the acquisition for the first time, and SoftBank offered to buy a 32-dollar price for a dream factory animation company listed on the Nasdaq. The purchase price is 43% higher than DreamWorks Animation's 26th closing, and the company's current market capitalisation is close to $1.9 billion.

4. Secret development Team launches new application: Custom content push

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Beijing time September 28 afternoon news, anonymous social applications secret development team released a new application ping in Friday. Ping is a content push application that pushes information to the phone's lock screen interface according to user-defined options.

Ben Lee, Secret's main designer, said in a blog post that users could select topics of interest in ping applications, such as "Twitter hot topics", "apps worth downloading", and then Ping would push new messages accordingly.

5. Amazon doubles bets on hardware to challenge Apple and Google

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The Kindle, smartphone Fire Phone, and streaming media set-top box FireTV, the electronics giant Amazon, are just the beginning. From the present posture, Amazon does not want to play a role in the hardware industry, its hardware product research and development Department of further large-scale investment is to Google, Apple and other companies send a strong signal of the challenge.

Amazon plans to increase the number of employees at least 27% of its Lab126 in Silicon Valley's arcane hardware department over the next five years. Meanwhile, Amazon plans to invest 55 million of dollars in the sector to develop a new generation of smart home products.

6. Best Server System: Windows Server 2003 is also quickly discarded

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Windows XP has been terminated for five months, and its server brother, Windows Server 2003, is dead soon, and will be completely abandoned by July 14, 2015. Windows XP is irreplaceable on the desktop, and Windows Server 2003 is equally outstanding on the server, and many of the most stable and unadorned users like it (and Support 4GB RAM).

Of the world's Microsoft system servers, about 39% are running Windows Server 2003, or about 24 million, of which 9.4 million are in the United States. Correspondingly, software such as SQL Server is also popular, with 2005 of users (but it will be discarded in 2016).

7. British media: "Tears password" to protect the privacy of the network

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Foreign media said that tears will reveal our most intimate feelings, but it can also protect our most intimate information on the Internet? Australian optometrist Stephen Messen found a new way to scan human tears as a password, he called it "the world's first one-time biometric lock," according to a September 27 report from the FT website. He focuses on the cornea, not the iris used by most optical scanners, because cyber criminals cannot replicate the unique ways in which tears change their eyes.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)