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Typing on a Microsoft Surface RT: great, but no sale
ZDNet
I've just spent a week using a Surface RT outfit on loan from Microsoft, from which you'll gather that I didn't rush out and buy one -- unlike many of my ZD Net colleagues. While I enjoyed using it, particularly as a tablet, the loaner didn't change my ...

ZDNet
Exclusive: More Microsoft Kin Testing Videos Reveal Its Fatal Flaws
Wired (blog)
The first batch of Microsoft Kin usability testing videos we posted Monday clearly showed that the ill-fated device had serious problems before it launched. This new cache of videos reveal the depth of those flaws: menus that do nothing. Trouble with ...
Windows Phone 8: Despite Some Issues, an Excellent Mobile OS
MIT Technology Review
Windows Phone 8: Despite Some Issues, an Excellent Mobile OS. Microsoft's latest attempt at smartphone software is a job well done—but there's still plenty of work ahead. By Rachel Metz on November 21, 2012 ...
Mashable Reports Sluggish Sales for Microsoft's Windows 8
International Business Times AU
By Erik Pineda | November 21, 2012 4:48 PM EST. Global sales of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, has been slow at best but devices running the cross-platform OS were moving in a much better pace, tech blog site Mashable reported this week.

International Business Times AU
Linux Foundation struggles with Microsoft's Secure Boot signing service
The H
UEFI logo Despite several attempts, the Linux Foundation's James Bottomley has not managed to get Microsoft to sign the mini bootloader for starting Linux on systems with UEFI Secure Boot. In a blog post, the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board ...
Microsoft is investigating Windows Phone 8 reboot and sync issues
TechSpot
Multiple people are reporting problems with their brand new Windows Phone 8 devices. The two key issues seem to be email-sync problems and random phone reboots that are reportedly happening regardless of carrier choice, according to Mary Jo Foley ...
How Microsoft Builds Employee Trust In the
PSFK
... Workplace [Future Of Work] · How Microsoft Builds · Employee Trust In the · Workplace [Future Of Work]. PSFK chats with Ross Smith, Director of Test at Microsoft, about how gauging trust and creating games help to create a more powerful company ...
Pivotal Microsoft-Motorola Mobility Patent Case Now in Judge's Hands
NASDAQ
Microsoft and Motorola have engaged in settlement talks as recently as last summer, but the critical trial phase of the lawsuit has proceeded without any hints the sides are negotiating outside the courtroom. "Most of these things settle, but in this ...
Microsoft Outlook: Disabling the Send without a Location Prompt
Accountingweb.com
Outlook often tries to be helpful and alert you when you've left the Location field blank within a meeting request. However, often the meeting location is implicitly known or isn't necessary, such as for a phone call. In this article, I'll demonstrate ...

Accountingweb.com
Oprah tweets Microsoft Surface love from iPad
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
oprah-tweet Few mortals can afford to shop like Oprah Winfrey. Fortunately for modern peasantry, however, she's willing to share her "Favorite Things" each year so we can try to be more like her while Christmas shopping. Some of the items she mentions ...
New IPs for Xbox 720: Microsoft touts "new blood", seeks Halo devs with MMO ...
Xbox 360: The Official Xbox Magazine
There's also more evidence that Microsoft has a brace of new IPs on the way next generation, in the form of a vacancy for a software development engineer at the Core Games Publishing team. The listing reads: "MGS has a number of successful core ...
Skype 3.0 arrives on Android with Microsoft login and new tablet UI
SlashGear
Skype just released version 3.0 on Android, which brings its new Microsoft account login feature, as well a revamped Android user interface. Skype has optimized the new tablet UI for the Galaxy Tab 2, Nexus 7, the Transformer Prime from ASUS, and a few ...

SlashGear
Microsoft and Telefonica ink worldwide IPTV and OTT technology deal
Screen Digest (press release)
International software provider Microsoft is to launch a new IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) platform for all operations of international telco Telefonica. The platform, a Telefonica-specified variant of Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform, will be termed ...
Ala. becomes 10th state to partner with Microsoft
WTVM
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - More than 140 high schools in Alabama are partnering with Microsoft to add business software programs to their curriculum. The Montgomery Advertiser (http://on.mgmadv.com/Tb0HkP ) reports that Alabama will become the 10th ...