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Microsoft tries, Bing App fails
In an effort to compete with Google, Microsoft recently released a Bing search application to the Apple App Store. Similarly to Google’s Mobile App, the Bing app provides access to all the Bing features including a voice search. According to Microsoft, Bing is the “Mobile decision engine that is always by your side” and that it should be used for ” quick answers, Web searches, product lookups, and local listings”.
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Tagged bing, fail, grinds my gears, ipod touch, microphone, Microsoft, rant
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Bad Xbox Customer Support, Bad!
Microsoft, you have ONCE AGAIN proven that your ability to grind my gears is truly infinite.
Submitted for your approval…one Xbox 360 with a defective wired NIC. I knew this fact as soon as I began troubleshooting his console, because, great gaming consoles though they may be, the quality with which they are assembled (as well as the parts used therein) is abysmal.