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Display shootout: Microsoft Surface RT vs. iPads vs. Android Tablets
ZDNet
Before Surface for Windows RT began shipping, Microsoft's Steven Bathiche said that "Microsoft has the best pixel rendering technology in the industry," subtly implying that the Surface display might be superior to the display in the iPad. Naturally ...
Microsoft Promises Service Credits To Office 365 Customers Hit By Outages
CRN
Microsoft will be issuing service credits to Office 365 customers who were hit by email service outages last week and again earlier this week. The company also says the problems that caused the outages have been resolved and a review is underway to ...
Microsoft Windows Chief's Resignation - How Technology and Search World is ...
Technorati
I still remember what my college teacher used to say; "life is all about surprises, so every minute, be ready for that". Coming into professional life and the real-world experience has endorsed his views. Nobody was expecting CIA chief to have an extra ...

Technorati
Microsoft set to expand app labs to help Windows 8 devs
SlashGear
Windows 8 has been available for a couple of weeks now and Microsoft is itching to get developers making apps for the Windows Store, as it should be. Earlier in the month, Microsoft teamed up RocketSpace to host the first Windows Store App Lab, which ...
Hey, enterprise startups! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hear your elevator ...
VentureBeat
Melas-Kyriazi said that Ballmer has been a firm supporter of the program long before Microsoft came on board as a strategic partner. According to a StartX blog post, Microsoft agreed to provide "financial sponsorship, technical resources, and ...

VentureBeat
Microsoft Surface Gains Early Lead Among Windows 8 Devices, Ad Data Indicates
ReadWriteWeb
Although the data might be a little uncertain, figures released by AdDuplex indicate that Microsoft's Surface is winning the early race to be the most popular Windows 8/ Windows RT device. At least as calculated by which platforms are acccessing ads on ...
Microsoft To Host Free App Labs For Windows 8 Developers In 30 Cities Around ...
TechCrunch
It's no secret that Microsoft is doing its best to get more developers to write apps for its Windows 8 platform. Today, the company is announcing its newest initiative: Microsoft will host app labs for developers in 30 "technology and design hubs ...
Microsoft Finalizes StorSimple Acquisition
Redmond Channel Partner
Microsoft completed its acquisition of StorSimple, a provider of of cloud-integrated storage (CIS) appliances, on Thursday, one month after announcing the deal. With the acquisition, Microsoft gains StorSimple's CIS platform. The platform, aimed at ...
HP PC chief: "Kludgey" Microsoft Surface is "hardly competition"
SlashGear
HP's PC chief has dismissed Microsoft's Surface tablet as "slow and a little kludgey" and blamed the tech press for over-hyping what he would "hardly call … competition" to HP's own products. "Holistically, the press has made a bigger deal out of ...

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Ballmer hints at more Microsoft-developed hardware
Los Angeles Times
"It is absolutely clear that there is an innovation opportunity on the scene between hardware and software and that is a scene that must not go unexploited at all by Microsoft," he said, speaking at a tech industry event in Santa Clara, Calif ...
Microsoft SkyDrive usage doubled in 6 months, new features incoming
SlashGear
Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service is picking up a lot of speed, and it's becoming one the company's more popular products. Microsoft has announced that SkyDrive usage has doubled in the last six months, meaning that the storage needed to store ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees value in making more hardware - could a ...
Mobile Burn
Microsoft has explicitly stated that it has no plans to develop a phone; however, plans can change, and recent comments from CEO Steve Ballmer suggest that's a possibility. At a recent tech event, Ballmer made the following statement when asked about ...
Microsoft Announces Skype Ads For Windows 8
WebProNews
Skype started running ads last year, even before it was acquired by Microsoft, but from the sound of it, they're really just getting started. At the Monaco Media Forum today, Skype President Tony Bates announced the launch of Skype Ads for Windows 8 ...