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12 Surprising Facts About Google That You Don’t Know

Shivam Patsariya 0 Creative, Tricks 9:35 AM

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According to surveys, Google’s search share is about 68% on the Internet and as in April 2015, has acquired over 180 companies. Google is so famous that <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to google </em>or <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">google it </em>have become verbs today. Google owns multiple companies under each alphabet in English and therefore, changed itself to <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Alphabet</span></span></span>(pretentious huh).</div>
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And there is so much that you probably don’t know about Google, sorry Alphabet. Check out some amazing facts about Google (it has stuck now!!) one of the most creative company today.</div>
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1. Google’s 40 GB DataBase</h3>
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In its primitive days, all of the Google was squeezed inside ten 4 GB hard disks. You know how big it is today? Something around 100 million GB.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">2. Googol Is It?</span></div>
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The $400 billion company was supposed to be named Googol but became Google due to a spelling error by the investors.</div>
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3. Minimalistic Homepage</h3>
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Did you ever wonder why Google has such a sparse and simple homepage? After all it can get the best designers, right! When Larry and Brin  created Google, they didn’t know enough HTML to make a pretty looking homepage. As it was a simple interface, they stuck with it.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">4. Acquiring New Company Each Week</span></div>
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Know why Google is so rich and creative? Because it owns almost every other company. Google has averaged to acquiring new company each week since 2010.</div>
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5. Low Grades? Awesome!!</h3>
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Google never asks for your GPA’s. In fact, they have teams where 14% of employees haven’t even attended college. Now are you feeling lucky?</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">6. Google Fun Tricks</span></div>
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Google is smart, and it is fun. If you are bored, Google has a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">bundle of fun tricks</span></span> </span>for you.</div>
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7. New Searches Every Day</h3>
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Every day Google sees about 16% of the search queries that it has never seen before. Everyone is unique I guess..</div>
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8. Computer That Can Program Itself</h3>
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Google is all into advanced tech. It is believed that Google is developing a computer that will be so advanced that it can program itself. God, please don’t create a Skynet.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">9. Best Company To Work For</span></div>
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The company’s employees are its biggest assets, and Google knows that. It has the best work culture and has been named the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">best company to work</span></span></span> for by Fortune several times.</div>
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10. Google Plans Weddings</h3>
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Looking for a wedding planner? Google is here. <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google.com/weddings</span> is a free service provided by the company that helps you plan your weddings.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">11. Google Is Trying To Cure Death</span></div>
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Google has a subsidiary company <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Calico</span></span></em></span>, that runs experiments to stop aging and ultimately cure death.</div>
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12. I’m Feeling Lucky. Not Google Though</h3>
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Google loses $100 million per year because of the I’m feeling lucky button, just to make sure you get an ad-free search.</div>
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Microsoft is Downloading Windows 10 on Your PC Even If You DON’T Want it

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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers even if you don’t want it. This happened after an<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span></span>Inquirer reader </span>noticed that, despite not having ‘reserved’ Windows 10, he saw a <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$Windows.~BT</em> folder in his PC, containing the files of the new OS. The user didn’t plan to download the update or upgrade his PC.</div>
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The reader says that he thought that Windows 10 upgrade was optional, but his PC repeatedly tried to install Windows 10 and it had a huge 3.5GB to 6GB hidden folder named $Windows.~BT.</div>
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He says: “I know of two instances where people on metered connections went over their data cap for August because of this unwanted download. My own internet (slow DSL) was crawling for a week or so until I discovered this problem. In fact, that’s what led me to it. Not only does it download, it tries to install every time the computer is booted.”</div>
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Confirming this action, Microsoft said that for individuals who have chosen to receive automatic Windows updates (don’t confuse it with Windows 10 upgrade), Microsoft makes the upgradable devices ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files.</div>
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So, when the upgrade is ready, user is shown the message that the Windows 10 upgrade is ready to be installed. So, if you are downloading the usual security updates via Windows Update, don’t be surprised to see a big-ass Windows 10 hidden folder on your system drive.</div>
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Elon Musk’s Crazy Idea: “Let’s Drop Nuclear Bombs on Mars to Make it Habitable”

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D<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">o you wish to live on Mars? While we are years away from walking on the Red planet and breathing in its atmosphere, Elon Musk has a way to speed up the process. Recently on the </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Late Show with Stephen Colbert</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">, Elon Musk said that there are two methods to make </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Mars habitable for human life</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">. The first method is slow and it involves flooding the Red planet with greenhouse gases to make it warmer.</span></div>
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The second and fast method to warm up the planet involved bombing Mars with a nuclear weapon. “The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles,” Musk said without any hesitation.</div>
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In the reply, Colbert called him a supervillain. “Superman doesn’t say, ‘let’s drop nuclear bombs.’ That’s Lex Luthor, man,” he added. Further, Colbert asked him why we humans should wish to go to Mars. Musk replied that Mars is “a fixed-upper of a planet.”</div>
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Also read: <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Elon Musk Asks Humanity To Stop Running “The Dumbest Experiment In History”</span></span></span></div>
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In addition to the Mars inhabitance discussion, Colbert asked the studio audience if Musk should run for the US president.</div>
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Talking about the reusable SpaceX rockets, Musk said that within two years, his rockets will be ready for human passengers.</div>
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Hackers Won’t Stop: 888 Data Breaches So Far In 2015 and 246 Million Records Lost

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The biggest data breach of this year exposed 78.8 million identity records from Anthem Insurance comprising 32% of the total theft. This was the first in the line of several state-sponsored cyber attacks to follow. 21 million records from the United States Office of Personnel Management, 20 million records from Russia’s dating site Topface, and 10 million record information from India’s<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gaana.com</span>  are some of the biggest breaches to take place in 2015.</div>
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The top security firms have admitted that these type of incidents are unavoidable. China has come up with a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">hack proof Quantum communication network</span></span></span> as a viable solution that they will launch in 2016. Now only time will tell how effective the network is.</div>
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The top 10 data breaches make up for 82% of the total information compromised. In the United States alone there were 671 reported data breaching incidents. Second in line is the UK where its citizens were exposed to 63 hack attacks.</div>
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The DDoS attacks this year have also <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">increased by 132%</span></span></span> compared to last year.  Learn more about <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">DDoS attacks</span></span></span> to safeguard yourself.</div>
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This 2012 Hilarious Comic Shows Microsoft Predicted Apple’s iPad Pro Launch in 2015

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In another development, a comic from 2012 has been revealed that shows that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer predicted that Apple will be launching iPad Pro in 2105. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Note: Comic is shown in the end and it contains some NSFW language).</em></div>
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Apple’s iPad Pro looks like an answer to Microsoft Surface Pro tablet that was introduced about three years ago. The company came up with almost similar specs and size- and even included a similar looking compact keyboard built into the iPad Pro cover. That time, the former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got criticized for attaching a keyboard to a tablet. Back then, Steve predicted that other companies will be launching similar tablets in the upcoming years.</div>
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With a cartoon in 2012, Joel Watson, a cartoonist, predicted pretty much the same Steve Ballmer intended to say. He predicted that Tim Cook was already gearing up to “invent” the iPad Pro in its own way.</div>
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Take a look (NSFW language):</div>
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This 2012 Hilarious Comic Shows Microsoft Predicted Apple’s iPad Pro Launch in 2015

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Want to Quit Smoking? Get This Smartphone Connected Cigarette Box

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Don’t worry, there is one more way that would help you do away with smoke. It is an idea of a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">French startup Low</span></span>iee</span>– the smartphone connected cigarette box. Lowiee is a specially designed cigarette box that will help you to refrain from your nicotine cravings and push you to reduce your cigarette numbers.</div>
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Lowiee is made of anodised aluminium and uses a fingerprint scanning sensor to authorise one cigarette at a time. It is linked to your smartphone and from its app, you can set your own realistic goals. Cool. No one to nag you every time you kiss that butt, just a subtle reminder that you are losing on your goal. Although, you can change the goal settings whenever you feel like.</div>
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The app keeps score of the smokes you had last week/month and also encourages you by telling how much tar and nicotine you avoided by giving it a break. Now that’s smart.</div>
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The smart cigarette box can hold 20 king size cigarettes max and aims to help smokers develop self-control.</div>
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The Lowiee smart cigarette box will soon be in the market. Its price hasn’t been revealed as well.</div>
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Want to Quit Smoking? Get This Smartphone Connected Cigarette Box

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Bloopers Special: NASA Mistakes Moon For The Sun

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The picture was taken from the International Space Station by the astronaut Scott Kelly and you can clearly see the enthusiasm in the tweet of completing one year in space.</div>
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Wait, that’s weird. How can you mistake Moon for the Sun if you have been living up there for more than a year? Isn’t the view better from there?</div>
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However, the mistake was corrected as soon as NASA realized its mistake (well, they got some lashing from their followers).</div>
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But it’s ok I guess. This just proves NASA scientists make errors too, no matter how smart they are. As for Scott Kelly, he must be overwhelmed by the fact that he spent a year in space. But the pic is beautiful for sure.</div>
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Here a bonus video on Space Coffee. Enjoy.</div>
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Bloopers Special: NASA Mistakes Moon For The Sun

NASA made a gaffe this Tuesday when it tweeted a photograph taken from ISS and mistook the Moon for the Sun. Well, you don’t see such bl...

This Fake Baby Car Seat is Made to Help Governments Spy on You

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A recent report, dealing with the surveillance equipment being sold to the Columbian government, reveals a flyer showing a fake baby car seat that is made by a British surveillance equipment company LMW Electronics. This report from the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Privacy International</span></span> </span>shows that the spying baby car seat is a government spy that comes with a pan, tilt, and zoom camera.</div>
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This reminds me of the innocent baby monitors that are used by parents to keep an eye on their babies and feel more connected to them. This fake baby car seat is a step in another direction that will help your government to spy on its people.</div>
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After deploying the spying baby car seat at the desired location, you can retrieve the recordings from a USB drive embedded in the seat.</div>
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What do you think of this child-friendly spying method being used by the Columbian government? Tell us in the comments below.</div>
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I was shocked when Phil invited Microsoft told the crowd: “Yeah, these guys know productivity.” After few perplexed moments, the audience saw Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for Microsoft Office.</div>
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New Apple Products: <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus</span></span>, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Apple TV</span></span>, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Apple iPad Pro</span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Apple Pencil</span></span></span></div>
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Koenigsbauer started his talk by saying, “It’s a thrill to be here today” and showed off the new Microsoft Office for the new iPad Pro. As different analysts rightly point out- Apple likes to limit its events to Apple executives and its friends who talk and praise their new products. But, the big guys at Apple and Microsoft decided to make this change look like nothing unusual, but it wasn’t.</div>
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This also reminds me of 1997 when Microsoft CEO Bill Gates talked about their mutual cooperation after Microsoft gave Apple $150 million that helped Apple to avoid bankruptcy – and Gates and Jobs were booed by the Apple crowd.</div>
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Under the leadership of Tim Cook, Apple’s outlook is changing and it’s eying the enterprise. Contrary to Jobs’ focus- the consumers- Cook is trying his best to join hands with corporations to become their technology provider. Last year, along the same lines, Apple surprised the world by announcing a partnership with its <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Big Brother enemy IBM</span></span>.</span></div>
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On the other hand, under Satya Nadella, Microsoft is busy developing apps for iOS and Android ecosystem.</div>
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This new development is a clever tactics by Apple and Microsoft to promote their own products. They might have their differences written in bold letters in the history books, money always matters.</div>
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Why Microsoft Showed Up on the Stage of Apple iPhone Event

Steve Jobs turned in his grave when Apple invited a Microsoft executive on the stage to give a demo of the new Apple iPad Pro. Technolog...