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Microsoft Scores With Surface Demos
PC Magazine
Three Microsoft people were working this booth and they had about eight Surface tablets with the various keyboards. I could not get on the airport's Wi-Fi anyway, so I took this as an opportunity to get my email and see what and how they were pitching ...
Report: Microsoft Prepping 'Xbox TV' Set-Top Box
PC Magazine
According to The Verge, Microsoft plans to spin off the entertainment component of the console and introduce a set-top box that is basically an Xbox 360 without the more serious gaming option. Instead, it would focus on movie and TV show streaming, as ...
Our Thesis Remains Unchanged; Microsoft Still Looks Cheap
Seeking Alpha
Earlier this month, news leaked that Microsoft (MSFT) veteran and Windows President Steven Sinofsky will leave the company. We're shocked by this departure, especially considering Sinofsky's list of accomplishments and that he was a potential successor ...
Microsoft accidentally gifts pirates with a free Windows 8 Pro license key
ExtremeTech
In an amusing twist that undoubtedly spells the end of some hapless manager's career, Microsoft has accidentally gifted pirates with a free, fully-functioning Windows 8 license key. If you so desire, it is now possible to activate Windows 8 Pro for ...

ExtremeTech
Microsoft Just Messed Up and Gave Out a Free Windows 8 Activation Key
Gizmodo
Microsoft Just Messed Up and Gave Out a Free Windows 8 Activation Key If you've been wanting to upgrade to Windows 8 but baulk at paying then, firstly, you're a bad person but, secondly, now your opportunity's here. Microsoft just screwed up and handed ...
Microsoft Game Studios now "multi-format," competing with console, web and tech
VG247
Microsoft Game Studios is now a "multi-format" studio, according to VP of Interactive Entertainment Business Phil Harrison, who said the firm has more competitors in the marketplace now, than just rival console makers. Speaking during the London Games ...
Microsoft accidentally gives pirates the keys to Windows 8
VentureBeat
Microsoft's giveaway of a free Windows Media Center upgrade may have a curious side effect: Allowing pirates to pick up a free copy of Windows 8 Pro direct from Microsoft itself. The Media Center upgrade, which Microsoft is offering through January 31 ...

VentureBeat
Microsoft-Google trial over patents finishes up
Economic Times
Michael Dansky, an expert for Google's Motorola Mobility unit, testified on the last day of a high stakes trial over patents between Microsoft and Google in Seattle. The $94 billion figure he cited also includes a wireless adapter that Microsoft no ...

Economic Times
Microsoft Vs Motorola Patent Trial First Phase Draws To A Close; Judge To Set ...
International Business Times
Microsoft attorneys opined that the practice was a "hold-up strategy," that helped modify the value of patents beyond their real value. Such practice was likely to pile cost on generic technology, a practice Microsoft called "patent stacking." Motorola ...

International Business Times
Microsoft, here's how to not suck at Windows Phone 8, starting with the ...
IntoMobile
The sad truth is that so-called dynamite smile actually led a company that created a pretty good product. Windows Phone 8 isn't bad at all. Aside from the lack of apps, which we'll get in to, the OS itself is a fresh contribution to the smartphone ...
Apple's iPad Mini vs. Microsoft's Surface tablet
Toronto Sun
Which is why it's hard to look at the two tablets getting a ton of attention right now – Microsoft's Surface and Apple's iPad Mini – with virginal eyes. If I had just awoken from a 10-year coma and was presented with either of these slabs of touch ...
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Destructoid (blog)
You see under the XNA developer rules Microsoft has no obligation to pay the developers until up to 45 days after the quarter. In other words Microsoft has in the rules that they will only pay you ever 4 ½ months approximately. Additionally in the ...
Google closes in on Microsoft's Xbox and Surface in patents trial
Inquirer
A COURT TRIAL in Seattle over patents between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility has closed, but the parties will submit their closing arguments as written briefs and the judge won't hand down his verdict until next Spring. On the final day of testimony ...

Inquirer
Microsoft Surface RT tablet review (64GB)
PC World Magazine
Microsoft has created a wonderful tablet in the Surface RT. It feels well made, it's light, it's highly usable and it contains things that many tablet users have considered to be essential elements for a great overall user experience, such as a built ...