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Microsoft admits Surface keyboard splitting problem
ZDNet
Some early adopters of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have reported their Touch Cover keyboard splitting at the point where it connects to the device. The issue has occurred despite the tablets only being on sale two weeks, and some users have taken to ...
Microsoft details its strategy for compiling Windows Phone apps in the cloud
ZDNet
Among the hundred-plus developer sessions that Microsoft execs presented at the company's Build 2012 conference (and which are now viewable for free by anyone, not just conference-goers) was one touching on Microsoft's cloud-compilation strategy.
Microsoft Prepping Real-Time Voice Translation Technology
PC Magazine
During the company's Research Asia's 21st Century Computing event in China last month, Microsoft's chief research officer, Rick Rashid, (left) gave a demonstration in written and spoken Chinese — a language he doesn't know. With a microphone attached ...
Windows Phones hit the market; can Microsoft become a major smartphone ...
Washington Post (blog)
Phones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 make their retail debuts Friday, with AT&T and Verizon offering models running the new system to their users. On Verizon, the phones of the day are the Windows Phone 8X by HTC and the Nokia Lumia 822, ...
Reports: Microsoft Office for Android, iOS Early in 2013?
The VAR Guy
Expect Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to deliver Office Mobile for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPad and devices running Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android OS — platforms standing in the way of the software maker's own Windows Phone — perhaps ...
Microsoft's Wowzapp Hackathon Attracts 17000 Student Developers Who Want ...
TechCrunch
Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would hold a free global hackathon in over 100 cities around the globe. Today is the first day of this "Wowzapp 2012" event, and Microsoft just announced that it has managed to attract over 17,000 developers ...
Microsoft To Partners: This Is The Year To Make Money With Us
CRN
Microsoft partners are poised for stellar growth over the next year, as enterprise and SMB customers start upgrading to the latest versions of Windows and Office, the software giant said Friday. "It is literally the year for you to make money with ...
How Microsoft's Surface tablet got my family through a Hurricane Sandy outage
Network World
A thank you is owed to Microsoft for the Surface tablet's capable battery and USB ports, which helped my family maintain their sanity while waiting for the power to come back on after Hurricane Sandy. By Marco Chiappetta on Fri, 11/09/12 - 10:55am ...
Xbox 360 shines bright in otherwise dismal game market
CNET
In October, Microsoft sold 270,000 Xbox 360 units, more than any other gaming console. That number gave the company a 56 percent share of all console sales in the U.S. It also marked the 20th month in a row that the Xbox captured more than 40 percent ...
Microsoft to End Messenger in 2013 and Skype Will Take Over
Modders-Inc
I have been a MSN Messenger user for as long as it has been out and just recently my account got hacked and I lost all my contacts. But I guess now that doesn't really matter since it is going away in less than 6 months. Unfortunately I will not be ...
Nvidia Sales Buoyed By Microsoft, Google Tablets NVDA MSFT GOOG
Investor's Business Daily
Nvidia's sales of graphics chips to tablets, such as Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface and Google 's (GOOG) Nexus 7, helped to offset weak PC graphics processor sales, Canaccord Genuity analyst Bobby Burleson said in a research note Friday. He has a buy ...
Microsoft to Invest in Brazil
Zacks.com
This will be the fourth Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Laboratory built by the company in Brazil (previously opened in Germany, Israel and Egypt). The lab will house the Bing search engine as well as a business accelerator that will support 15 ...
Kinect for Windows
PC Pro
Microsoft Kinect is the most exciting home-entertainment technology in years. Nintendo's Wii made motion control mainstream, but Kinect took it to the next level, transforming simple body movements into game controls using a combination of 2D and 3D ...

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Verizon Rolls Out UC Management Services for Microsoft Lync
Redmond Channel Partner
Enhancing its existing enterprise offerings, Verizon on Thursday released a new unified communications management service for large enterprises in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Lync is a unified communications solution that supports ...
Personify Live Uses Microsoft Kinect Or Other Depth Cameras For A Video ...
TechCrunch
A video conferencing startup called Personify, Inc. (formerly Nuvixa) is launching its first product next week, which will allow users to take advantage of the motion sensing technology in Microsoft Kinect and other depth cameras in order to overlay ...
Why the Top 20 R&D Spenders Waste their Money – Lessons from Microsoft & GM
Innovation Excellence (blog)
Why the Top 20 R&D Spenders Waste their Money - Lessons from Microsoft & GM Many people equate spending on R&D with investing in innovation. The logic goes that R&D spending is lab spending, and out of labs come innovations. Hence, those that ...
Get $7.50 from Microsoft if You Play Halo 4 Multiplayer for 140 Hours
AMOG
This month, playing Halo 4 for more than 35 hours could earn gamers 100 Microsoft Points, over 70 hours tantamount to 300 points, while 140+ could bring in 600 points. The points don't appear cumulative, as the promotional page says that gamers can ...

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Microsoft's New "Outlook" On Email (sponsored)
Gadget Review
Microsoft takes aim at your humdrum webmail with the new Outlook.com webmail service. Outlook.com is a new way to email that elegantly incorporates traditional input recognition, touch (yes, that includes Windows 8), social networking integration ...

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Google's UK Market Share Loss Is Microsoft's Gain
Trefis
According to research firm Experian Hitwise, Google's search market share dipped below the key 90% level in the United Kingdom during October, posting a monthly decline of 1.4% and year-over-year decline of 1.69%. While this is only one month's worth ...
Halo 4 Release date: Microsoft Aims To Please Fans Of Competitive Multiplayer ...
Gamenguide
Halo 4 was released earlier this week and the game's developer 343 Industries has done quite the job revitalizing the game's multiplayer modes by including lots of new content to ensure that gamers keep playing. The Spartan Ops mode offers gamer new ...

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