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Microsoft's IE 10 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: What's different
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Microsoft is syncing delivery of its mobile IE and PC Internet Explorer browsers. There's a lot the two have in common. But some things are still different. Mary Jo Foley. By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | November 9, 2012 -- 13:01 ...
Why Surface looks like the tablet Microsoft built for itself
ZDNet
And for Microsoft, rather too often, the answer is that the customer is the 80,000 to 100,000 Microsoft employees, plus associated contractors and service companies. Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and Word and OneNote and Exchange and Windows and ...
Microsoft's translation breakthrough: Speak, and hear your voice in Chinese
ZDNet
The company's chief research officer, Rick Rashid, said on Thursday that Microsoft hopes to have "systems that can completely break down language barriers" within the next few years. In a video demonstration, Rashid spoke in English and was then echoed ...
Microsoft Inks More Android Licensing Deals
InformationWeek
Microsoft has added several vendors to the list of electronics manufacturers that are paying it licensing fees for using Google's Android operating system and/or Linux in their products. The company has long-claimed that Linux and Android, a Linux ...
Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 8 smartphone hits U.S. market against iPhone ...
ABC Action News
Microsoft's latest effort to elbow its way into the U.S. smartphone market begins on Friday, when the first Windows Phone 8 devices go on sale. Since the launch of Windows Phone 7 two years ago, the software giant has thrown hundreds of millions of ...

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Users Are Complaining The Keyboard Cover On The Microsoft Surface Breaks ...
Business Insider
Microsoft did not respond to a request from The Guardian for information about how many reports there had been of the problem. Baxter-Reynolds was told to return his Touch Cover to Microsoft for a replacement, and Microsoft has been swapping faulty ...

Business Insider
Michigan man charged with selling counterfeit Microsoft software
Computerworld
IDG News Service - A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 million that he purchased from China and Singapore, the U.S Department of Justice said ...
Microsoft's touching Xmas gift for Brits: MORE licensing price hikes
Register
Microsoft has wrapped up a bunch of pre-Chrimbo licensing price hikes for channel partners to deliver to customers at the start of next month. Redmond handed out a summer treat by bumping up volume licences for UK firms from 1 July as it aligned ...
Microsoft Kicks Off WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows
Equities.com
9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today kicked off WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows, the first simultaneous global hackathon for students, startups and professional developers in the company's history. Following the recent Windows ...
Big Brother alert: Microsoft wants to know how many friends you've got in your ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
One of Microsoft's latest patent applications is a humdinger. It proposes to turn the Kinect camera into a snitch for movie studios, reporting back just how many friends you've got in your living room and what they're watching. Think that sounds alarmist?
5 security issues to watch in Win 8
ZDNet
Citing Microsoft which said Windows 8 will include "mitigation enhancements that further reduce the likelihood of common attacks", Sentonas explained this meant changes it made to various core system components were focused on mitigating some of ...
Microsoft's Cloud Services Mix Leaves Many Vendors in the Dust
CIO Australia
Trends aren't often fully understood until they are over. One of the first big trends in the IT industry, called management information systems (MIS) back then, marked a move from a services-based market to a hardware-based market. This happened when ...
Win8 apprehension can be overcome, says Microsoft
ITWorld Canada
But James Nicholson, a senior Windows product manager at Microsoft Canada said that when users realize they can toggle to the traditional desktop after booting their initial user fears melt away. "I think once people get their hands on the product and ...
Microsoft increases flash storage limits on Xbox 360 to 32GB
Gaming Examiner
Microsoft confirmed with Joystiq that the increased capacity was not a mistake by stating, "Yes. The more our customers use their profile and download digital content, the larger the file size necessary to store that content and move it between ...
Once again, time for open comments. And, Microsoft hits Houston in July.
Houston Chronicle (blog)
This will be the first WPC after the release of the new OS – and after Microsoft has started selling its own computing hardware, the Surface tablet – so it should be an interesting one. Microsoft has even enlisted musician Lyle Lovett to talk up the ...