Microsoft Kills Hotmail and gives birth to ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com!

Microsoft the software giant killed its long standing email service Hotmail and gave its mail service over to ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com.

The changes include the new email address “@outlook.com “ which will replace the older “@hotmail.com” address, used by  millions worldwide for more than 10 years of its service. Users can already "Upgrade to Outlook.com" to keep their existing address.

CoolMail

 Hotmail still the world's largest email service with 324 million users (about 36 per cent of the market) but had been losing its market to Google's fast-growing Gmail with 425 million users!

Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million. The rebranding and overhaul of Microsoft's email service is Microsoft's first major change in its email service in 10 years.

Microsoft is hoping that the new Outlook.com as a free mail service that pulls features from Hotmail and Exchange. It is designed for both  personal consumer use, Microsoft continues to position Outlook as its business e-mail client. 

We call it ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com because;

“God Particle”: What it means to you?

The Discovery of “God Particle”: What it means to you?

"The TechStrip Particle"

 Everyone's talking/tweeting about the 'God particle' but what if someone asks you to explain it.

Oh!Thats too difficult, so here is TechStrip helping you out to understand the Higgs Boson discovery.

First up, let’s look at the scientific explanation of what they actually found.

"The Higgs boson is an elementary scalar particle first posited in 1962, as a potential byproduct of the mechanism by which a hypothetical, ubiquitous quantum field – the so-called Higgs field – gives mass to elementary particles. More specifically, in the standard model of particle physics, the existence of the Higgs boson explains how spontaneous breaking of electroweak symmetry takes place in nature."

No, you aren’t the only person confused after reading that, too scientific isn’t it.

So, how to explain it to a common man!?

Possibly the biggest discovery ever can be explained in Simple English. 

Here we go,

"The Higgs Boson is the missing particle of Standard Model of physics. It’s a  type of subatomic punctuation with a weight somewhere between a tiny semicolon and an invisible comma. Without it the universe would be a meaningless cloud of gibberish” said the Guardian.

Looking back in time, Higgs is the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the theory that describes the basic building blocks of the universe. 

In 1964, three scientists, Higgs, Brout and Englert, predicted, it must exists to explain the most important property of all matter – it’s mass. Till yesterday, this wasn’t experimentally confirmed!

Higgs-Boson

This is a huge breakthrough in science because; 

                      the discovery would confirm the Standard Model of physics. Other particles predicted by this theory have already been detected. With this Higgs Boson particle scientists can look at other riddles of the Nature!

The Higgs boson particle is also called The God Particle. 

Reports explain this name misleading as Nobel winning physicist Leon Lederman wanted to title his 1993 book ‘The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?’ But his editor changed it to ‘God particle’. The nickname stuck though most scientists. 

So, this is not exactly the God Particle but just named as one!

Meanwhile Tweeples didn’t miss an opportunity to take a dig at this difficult-to-understand physics. Here are some really funny tweets on the serious discovery:

"CERN release microscopic image of The God particle. It's...Oh Jesus.... SWEET MOTHER OF JESUS. NO.NO."

CERN release microscopic image of The God particle :P

 "Higgs and Boson are frantically searching for the Rajinikanth Particle."

"This entire finding of  CERN, God Particle, Higgs Boson, is sounding mildly like a con job. A matter of some conCERN."

“Are You There God Particle? It's Me, Average Person That Doesn't Understand You"

"Reminder: Higgs is an atheist, and Lederman named it "the goddamn particle", but embarrassed publisher changed it to "Godparticle"."

"Athiest Higgs Boson: Since we're now pretty sure it actually exists, can we stop calling it 'the God particle'?"

"Breaking: God Particle opts out of Lanka tour."

"I think every child will be creating a Big Bang in the physics lab 20 years from now for their practical exams"

"I won't do any God Particle jokes. #Atheist"