Calling it a product that solves the evolving needs of users, Microsoft announced this week the launch of Bing.com. The platform put in place will basically help consumers make better decisions, with a new approach, on four main areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

The man behind Bing.com is Qi Lu, a former head technologist at Yahoo. He was recruited by Microsoft with high hopes: with just 8% of U.S. searches, Microsoft has missed out on billions in potential revenues.

The platform will progressively be put in production in the coming days, until then, here’s a short video presentation of Bing.com.

Orckestra recently participated to the 2009 Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference, held in New-York city on May 5th. Vincent Trépanier, Executive Vice-President at Orckestra, along with Frederic Persoon from InCycle Software, presented a session entitled: Applying development best practices around Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Visual Studio Team System with Team Foundation Server.

The Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference provide to developers, architects and key business decision makers in large enterprise organizations a clear roadmap of the Microsoft Application Platform. The three different tracks were:

• Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
• Application Life Cycle Management
• Creating Impact with Silverlight, WPF and Surface

Thanks to the full webcast available on the event’s website, you can now watch the complete SharePoint development best practices session, presented by Vincent and Frederic.

Microsoft recently published a video illustrating their vision of our daily activities, where all content will be digitalized and accessible anytime and anywhere. Interesting... Now let's hope that technologies will evolve enough so that I'll be able to browse web content inside a newspaper!