Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in, Washington USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems (XP, Vista, 7, 8, ect.) Microsoft office suite and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world’s most valuable companies.Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 it is considered the third most successful startup company of all time by market capitalization, revenue, growth and cultural impact. One of its latest acquisitions is Skype technologies for US$8.5 billion. In its almost 40 years of existence, this elite company now sees its 3rd Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer respectively.

Critics consider him a “safe” choice for a company which some claim is in urgent need of a radical management change, as the PC buying slump continues to bite. I certainly agree.
Meet India’s Satya Narayana Nadella, the 46 years old Hyderabad born high school cricket star, believed to have been, all along, one of a small handful of alleged internal candidates for the Microsoft CEO post. Satya, has been at the company for 22 years. As of 2011, he ran Microsoft’s lucrative server and tools businesses. His official title, as of the July 2013 “One Microsoft” reorg, became Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise.
Given Microsoft is remaking itself as a devices and services company; it’s not too crazy that Microsoft’s selection committee would choose a “cloud guy” to be the next CEO.
Satya graduated from the University of Bangalore with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he earned two more masters’ degrees: one in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, and another in business administration from the University of Chicago.
He’s served as vice president of the Microsoft Business Division, senior vice president of research and development for the Online Services division, and president of the software giant’s $19 billion Server and Tools Business.
Narayana work led him to his most recent role as executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise group. His official biography lists him as in charge of “building and running the company’s computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services.” Cloud OS helps run Microsoft services like Bing, SkyDrive, Xbox Live, Windows Server, and Visual Studio. These services, especially Office, rank among Microsoft’s strongest.
His advice to people on his first day of becoming CEO- “Always keep learning,” “You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”

SAMGUNG GALAXY S5 SMARTPHONE
Meanwhile, the South Korean gadget boss-Samsung on Monday sent invitations to its latest unpacked event, which is expected to include the launch of the Galaxy S5. The event will take place on Febuary 24 at the Mobile World Congress. But if you don’t have money for a plane ticket to Spain, don’t fret. Samsung will be live streaming the event online, www.sangung.com.

Physically, there was not much difference between the Galaxy S4 and its predecessor, the S III, but that’s about the change with the S5. “Mostly, it’s about the display and the feel of the cover. Samsung will go with a screen size of roughly 5.2-inches. It is believed Samsung will go with 2560 by 1440 pixels. However some suggest that the so-called “QHD” screen is not going to happen. The S5 is expected to have a 16-megapixel rear camera; up from 13 megapixels on last year’s and powered by a model Exynos 6 (64-bit) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (32-bit), with 3 GB of RAM.

The eye tracking in the Galaxy S5 have been debunked, numerous sources are talking about a fingerprint scanner, claims to be built into the screen, which makes sense if the Galaxy S5 uses on-screen buttons. In any case, the big question is whether Samsung can make the technology work well. That’s easier said than done. Even if there’s a metal Samsung phone floating around, most folks will end up with a plastic Galaxy S5.

FACEBOOK TURNS 10- FROM COLLAGE JOKE TO ONE BILLION FRIENDS!
Love it or hate it you can’t get away from Facebook. If you’re not one of over a billion Facebook users, chances are your aunt Sattie, your high-school buddy Kevin, and many of your friends and relatives are already there.
Today, Facebook dominates our online lives like no other Website except Google’s search engine. And, with so many of your friends and family there, it’s likely to be the site you spend the most time on every day of your life.
Facebook actually started as “Face-mash” in October 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg. This site simply scraped images from the Harvard University dorms’ online people directories called “facebooks,” and asked visitors to vote on which person in every randomly selected pair of photos was hottest. Little more than a lame college Web trick, it was to prove to be the start of a multi-billion dollar business.
Zuckerberg was inspired this small joke of a site to build a social network, thefacebook.com, which he launched on February 4, 2004. Well, that was his story.
Days after he launched the site he was accused by the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narendra of stealing their idea for a social network. Years and millions of dollars of legal fees, the twins accepted $65-million for their part in Facebook’s creation.
This first site was only open to Harvard students, but its membership took off explosively. Within its first month, more than half of Harvard’s undergraduates had joined up. Zuckerberg quickly expanded it to the other