Tag archive: Yusuf Mehdi

Old foes Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have struck an unlikely partnership: under the arrangement, folks who download Sun's Java platform will also be given an option to download Microsoft's MSN Toolbar, which offers direct access to Microsoft's Live Search service, as well as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. “This agreement with Sun Microsystems is another important milestone in our strategy to… Read More

These new innovations for Windows customers will make it easier than ever to find and retrieve documents, e-mail, images, video and more on their Windows-based personal computers. “By offering the most integrated desktop search capabilities for Windows, now people can search their PC as fast as they can search the Web,” said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for the MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division at… Read More

“The world's largest software maker also revamped its MSN.com Web portal www.msn.com to make its search engine more prominent and also tweaked the site's content and advertising to remove clutter, said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's vice president in charge of content and services at the MSN Internet division. “ If you wanna compete with Google, you have to offer something new and fresh. We think Microsoft might just… Read More

MSN Messenger 6, available beginning today at 11 a.m. PDT from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp, helps users create their own online identities through customized display pictures, backgrounds and emoticons. They also can share more of themselves — silly or serious — with IM contacts by competing at live online games, sending photos to their friends, or sharing animated emoticons that breathe life into that sad old… Read More