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Windows 7 phones only usable with Windows Live ID
May 18th
The use of a smartphone with the new Windows Mobile 7 Phone will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. Even with the early versions of the Google Android operating system, there was such pressure, which was then removed under pressure from concerned users and privacy advocates again.
Since Android Google Account 1.5 no longer necessary to use an Android phone.Even Apple’s iPhone at a less rigorous way, such as Microsoft reported tweakers.net Phone with Windows 7, as areamobile.de, citing a report by the Dutch website. Admittedly, the iPhone users have an iTunes account to use the iPhone for the first time to activate them. At a later stage, however, no more iTunes account is required.
Source: microsoft.com
With Windows Mobile 7 this seems to be otherwise well. The use of new Microsoft smartphones will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. This should emerge from a secret Microsoft document that tweakers.net present. Thus, a Windows Live ID is not only for the initial set up (to sync to the iPhone) is necessary, but also contacts or other services from Microsoft, such as the Windows phone access 7 Market Place.
In addition to seven cell phones a certificate installed on Windows, which is to prevent that can be installed unauthorized software on the Microsoft Smartphone.Moreover, Microsoft can thus always recognized by whom the Windows Mobile 7 Phone can be used. A similar procedure previously met with great criticism.Android users and data protectors protested against such a constraint in Google’s operating system. With success: Since Android 1.5 a Google account is needed anymore.
Student Why they like work at Google!
Dec 7th
The company Universum surveyed nearly 120 000 students from eleven countries in the world to know their fifty favorite employers for whom they would work. The high-tech firms have a good reputation among young people.
Result: Google is now being number 1 in the heart of studentsFollowed by Microsoft for business students. The Redmond company arrives on the third step for apprentice engineers.
These two giants of the IT are seen as young and innovative companies and do not hesitate to initiate many recruitment sessions to schools. But Apple, which enjoys good reputation among students, does not appear as a potential employer of choice.
In addition, not surprisingly, the financial world, while being low in recent months, always attracts students: According to this study, investment banks Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan ranked fourth and seventh in this ranking Employers interesting in particular because of the (very) good wages they offer to recruits. Specialized firms such as Ernst & Young, KPMG or McKinsxey & Company also know curry favor graduates.
Students are attracted to large accounts, enjoying a high reputation and international acclaim: the great names in food, beauty, distribution (Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble), Oil (Esso / Exxon Mobile, Shell, BP), or electronics / computer (IBM, Sony, General Electric, Siemens, Intel, HP, Cisco) continue to dream students.