On This Day: January 21st

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Microsoft PlacewareMicrosoft acquires PalceWare and Apple update the MacBook. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.

2003 – Microsoft acquires PlaceWare

On this day in 2003 Microsoft acquires PlaceWare, a developer of web conferencing software that was originally a spin-off of Xerox. Microsoft decided to re-brand PlaceWare’s core product and market it as Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

2009 – Apple update MacBookapple_macbook

An updated version of  releases an update of its MacBook is released. The new computer features Mac OS X v10.5.6 with the hardware including an 13.3″ glossy widescreen LCD, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 1066MHz Front-Side bus, 2GB of DDR2SDRAM, and a 120GB hard drive.

 

 

 

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