Windows in short: Bing search

One more week flies by and leaves us news in a year that will become historic in Redmond. Facts for it are not lacking. There is the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft, which can now be practically closed after receiving the approval of the regulatory authorities of the United States and the Union European; or the change of CEO, which has once again made headlines.

These seven days of December have also had a lot of robots, with Amazon and its Prime Air project of messenger drones, or Google and their efforts in the sector.The NSA continues without leaving us alone and we once again learn details of its espionage programs, some of which have provoked a response from Microsoft itself. But the news of the week does not end there and it is time for our little weekly review of the rest of the Windows universe.

• Last weekend I finished with the lists of the most searched terms in Bing in 2013. For those who are curious, here is the list for Spain.
• Bing also made headlines for finally releasing a much-needed update to its Android app with a fresh interface.
• Microsoft launched a new student benefits program that allows teachers to get Office 365 for free for their students.
• The Xbox team released the mouth-watering list of early developers to sign up for the ID@Xbox program, which will launch next year .
• Microsoft reached its highest stock market value in the last 13 years this week.
• Ration of ads of the week with a new chapter of the Scroogled campaign focused on attacking Google Chromebooks and a video highlighting some of the best applications for Windows 8 present in the Windows Store.

A good video to close another week in the Windows universe, with the hope that there will be more of the style with new and long-awaited applications for Windows 8. There is little left of this year 2013 and it will be 2014 when Now it is your turn to pass sentence. We will continue here every week and on Sundays with a new edition of Windows for short