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Microsoft Surface: Keyboard Is Key
InformationWeek
The keyboard is the fundamental hardware difference between the Microsoft Surface and iPad. The iPad is a "lean-back" device -- one you use mainly from the couch, not at a desk. The Surface promises to let you do both, provided you spend an extra $119 ...
Microsoft won't bring DirectX 11.1 to Windows 7
CNET
Microsoft explains how Windows 8 smokes Windows 7 · Samsung adds 3D to Series 7 Gamer laptop. Microsoft could reconsider its decision, but Moth seemed less than optimistic. "If the plan changes, you can bet we will be blogging about it (I personally am ...
Microsoft to tout Yammer integration plans at SharePoint conference
Computerworld
Before Microsoft bought Yammer for US$1.2 billion in July, enterprises had been able to integrate SharePoint and Yammer to an extent using their respective APIs. However, Microsoft plans to announce on Monday that it is working to deepen that through ...
Techs slip as Microsoft falls; RIM shares rise
MarketWatch
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shed nearly 2% after Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told the French daily Le Parisien that the company's new Surface tablet was selling "modestly." Microsoft ranked as the top decliner on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
Microsoft's Methane-Powered Module: A First Step Towards Data Plants
Data Center Knowledge (blog)
Microsoft executives compare the methane-powered module to an earlier experiment in which it operated servers in a tent in an equipment yard, which demonstrated the resilience of servers cooled with fresh air, and laid the groundwork for a major shift ...

Data Center Knowledge (blog)
Microsoft Is Beating Google For Big Cloud Deals Because It's Hungrier
Business Insider
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced one big Office 365 deal after another: 15,000 seats for the Santa Clara county government (right in Google's backyard), 25,000 seats for the EPA, and the granddaddy deal of them all, 200,000 seats for ...

Business Insider
Microsoft Patents Spying On You With Your TV's Camera And Fining You If ...
Huffington Post
Of course, big companies patent all sorts of stupid ideas, many of which never get incorporated into products. But hey, now you know that researchers at Microsoft sit around spitballing ideas like, "Wouldn't it be awesome to spy on our customers in ...
Microsoft's Retail Gamble
Tech.pinions
Over the weekend, I went to Microsoft's large store that is in the Westfield Shopping Center in San Jose. Like a few similar Microsoft stores, it is across from an Apple store and I suspect that Microsoft is hoping to lure some potential Apple product ...
Microsoft Windows 8 Tablets, PCs Meeting Expectations
Investor's Business Daily
New research says Microsoft's (MSFT) just-released Surface tablets with Windows 8 might be able to steal some market share from Apple's (AAPL) iPad, even while overall tablet and PC sales remain slow. The new Windows 8 Surface tablet will likely ...
The Malicious Safety OneCare Essential Defender: Straightening out Microsoft's ...
PCWorld
Microsoft AntiSpyware: No longer available. You can think of this as an antivirus program that looked for spyware rather than viruses. Since modern antivirus programs also look for spyware, it was kind of redundant. It eventually became Windows ...
Microsoft Office 2013 RT commercial licenses now available
SlashGear
If you're running Windows RT, you already have access to Office 2013 Home & Student, but last month there was a bit of controversy over the fact that Office 2013 Home & Student can't be used for commercial purposes. If you want to use Office in a ...
AT&T Small Business Customers Can Work Smarter Via the Cloud With ...
Sacramento Bee
12, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Taking advantage of cloud-based solutions is now easier than ever for small business owners thanks to AT&T*, which today announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365 from AT&T. With a more mobile workforce than ever ...
The AM Roundup: Petraeus Probe, Microsoft v. Google, SCOTUS Street
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Petraeus: A social planner's complaints about email stalking launched the monthslong criminal inquiry that led to a woman romantically linked to former Gen. David Petraeus and to his abrupt resignation Friday as Central Intelligence Agency chief. WSJ ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Coders grill Herb Sutter on future of C++ at Microsoft
Register
"The world is built on C++ and so is Microsoft," proclaimed Herb Sutter at Microsoft's Build conference last week in Seattle, Washington. Sutter is chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and Microsoft's Visual C++ language architect. Native code is ...
Verizon unveils managed Microsoft Lync service
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
Verizon's new Managed UC&C for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 can be combined with SIP Trunking using managed session border controllers (SBCs) to create a comprehensive UC&C infrastructure, the U.S. carrier announced last week. Verizon also noted ...
Microsoft's Skype unit launches Skype in the Workspace
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
After beta testing the product for six months with 500 small businesses, Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Skype unit last week launched its Skype in the Workspace (SITW) platform for small businesses to connect with potential customers, partners and suppliers.
IE10 preview for Windows 7 arriving tomorrow, report says
CNET
IE10 preview for Windows 7 arriving tomorrow, report says. Microsoft said last month that a preview of its Web browser would be released in mid-November. Shara Tibken. by Shara Tibken. November 12, 2012 8:32 AM PST Follow @sharatibken. Microsoft has ...
Microsoft Surface Display Shoot-Out: Does It Beat the iPad?
Gizmodo UK
The new Windows tablets, led by Microsoft's Surface, provide a third major family of tablets for consumers and the computing world. The significance and stakes are enormous because tablets are among the most important developments in computing and ...

Gizmodo UK
Apple, Research In Motion, Microsoft: Tech Winners & Losers
TheStreet.com
Apple is reportedly starting trial production on the iPhone 5S. This comes just three months after Apple announced the iPhone 5 to significant fanfare. The technology giant has also come to terms with Taiwanese handset maker HTC over patent litigation ...
Why isn't Microsoft's answer to Siri built into Windows 8?
Techworld.com
Windows 8 is supposed to be Microsoft's majestic OS reseta dramatic overhaul designed to usher the Windows platform into the age of mobility. And Windows 8 is also Microsoft's bid to achieve feature parity with iOS and Android, the other two OS ...
School of the Future: 10 years after concept, School District and Microsoft ...
Technically Philly
Three years earlier, Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia first paired up to design, develop and launch what a school that prepared students for a changing world would look like, built to change the role of education in the city. Microsoft ...
The Dow Now: 'Modest' Start for Surface Leads to Microsoft Drop
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL After enduring its worst week since June, the US stock market inched up a notch in early Monday trading, but fell back into the red by the afternoon amidst continued uncertainty over the fiscal cliff of automatic tax increases and ...