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Sewage to help Microsoft serve up Web pages NBCNews.com Microbes feasting on raw sewage at a wastewater treatment plant will soon help power the cloud, thanks to a Microsoft project that will use biogas generated by the little bugs to run a data center. Data centers are typically massive banks of servers ...

Reed Hastings on Microsoft: Watch Windows 8, Not Surface All Things Digital But last week Hastings did lay out a concise summary of the challenges Microsoft is facing as it launches its newest operating system, along with its Surface tablet/PC. Hastings made his comments in front of a group of Dow Jones reporters and editors ...

The Meanest Microsoft Surface Review Yet The Atlantic Wire What happens when a self-proclaimed Apple fanboy buys a Microsoft Surface tablet, tries it out for a week, and then tries to review it? Well, he hates it so much that he throws it in the trash, obviously. "But by and large, it's a strange, buggy, and ... The Atlantic Wire

No power wasted: Microsoft plans to build data center in Wyoming that runs on ... Daily Mail In practical terms, Microsoft's facility will operate in the following manner: a system of pipes will extract the methane from wastewater comes, clean it and then move it into the fuel cell. That fuel cell will then chemically turn the biogas into ... Daily Mail

Oprah Tweets Her Love of Microsoft Surface...from an iPad Forbes The fact that Oprah put the Microsoft Surface on her list of favorite things is a big deal, even though she may not be practicing what she preaches. When the media mogul recently tweeted about her love for. English: Oprah Winfrey at the White House for . Forbes

German city dumping OpenOffice for Microsoft Register But in its press release, the Pirate Party characterized the vote to return to Microsoft as a foregone conclusion, arguing that many council members lacked the technical expertise to understand the issues in the matter and should therefore have ...

Microsoft hires Dr. Jeannette Wing of Carnegie Mellon and the NSF as VP of its ... The Next Web (blog) Today Microsoft announced that it has hired Dr. Jeannette Wing as Vice President of its Research division. Microsoft Research is an expansive group of technologists, scientists, and dreamers that build technology that may, or perhaps more often may not ... The Next Web (blog)

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft's first desktop gracefully failed The Verge Two years ago today, when Windows 1.0 celebrated its 25th birthday, we didn't yet know what the future of Windows would hold. Now that Windows 8 is on the market, the original is more relevant than ever before. Today, Windows 1.0 turns 27, and despite ...

How I'm Using Microsoft Virtual Academy To Master Windows Server 2012 Lifehacker Australia Allure Media's IT manager Ben White is an alpha geek, a technology guru and the first person to install every beta going around. How is the Microsoft Virtual Academy site helping him master Windows Server 2012? Our in-house servers at Allure Media run ...

Jeannette Wing leaves CMU for Microsoft Pittsburgh Business Times (blog) Joe Wojcik. Jeannette Wing, the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, is leaving to take an executive position with Microsoft Research. Malia Spencer: Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times: Email | Twitter | Google ...

Microsoft Surface RT vs iPad 4 comparison review PC Advisor Microsoft's Surface RT is a tablet that a lot of people have been waiting for, but how does it shape up next to the Apple iPad 4? We put the two up against each other in this Microsoft Surface RT vs iPad 4 comparison review. Expert Review; User Reviews ... PC Advisor