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Microsoft leads host of companies in selling bonds today
The Seattle Times
Microsoft says it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general purposes, which may include funding for working capital, capital expenditures, repurchases of stock, acquisitions and repayment of existing debt. Earlier: Microsoft is ...
Small Maine Company Sues Microsoft for Patent Infringement
MPBN News
A small Maine technology company is suing industry giant Microsoft for patent infringement. SurfCast, based in Portland, says it patented a concept called Tiles back in the 1990s. A statement on the company's website, announcing the lawsuit, charges ...

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Microsoft: TypeScript isn't a JavaScript killer
Register
Build 2012 Microsoft may have a poor track record for web standards compliance, but if the capacity crowd at Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg's Build conference session on TypeScript was any indication, Redmond's JavaScript alternative has ...
Microsoft offers Windows 8 for Rs 1999 to cajole users of pirated OS
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Offer a sophisticated operating system for the price of a pair of branded jeans. This seems to be Microsoft's strategy to cajole millions of users running pirated copies of its flagship Windows operating system (OS) to turn a leaf and become ...

Economic Times
Microsoft 'testing' own smartphone in Asia: report
ZDNet
But Microsoft still has strong ties with Nokia with the Lumia smartphone range, in spite of Nokia's crumbling financial situation. In October, the Finnish phone maker saw a Q3 loss of $754 with net sales down by 19 percent on the previous quarter, and ...
REVIEW: Microsoft's Surface spans divide between netbook, tablet
Ottawa Citizen
Video chat is handled by Skype, which helps explain why Microsoft bought the company in May 2011 for $8.5 billion U.S. The Surface has a USB input, allowing for external storage, a mouse or other peripherals. There is also a micro HDMI output, allowing ...
Microsoft's US smartphone market share remains small but steady
The Seattle Times
So is it good news that Microsoft's share of U.S. smartphone subscribers hasn't declined -- though that share is still tiny? Research firm comScore came out with its latest figures for U.S. mobile subscriber market share. And it shows that for the ...
EPA likes clouds – as long as they're Microsoft's
Register
Microsoft's ongoing fight to transfer its lucrative government business from software to the cloud has received a major boost with a deal to sell 25,000 Office 365 licenses to the Environmental Protection Agency. The $9.8m contract to supply the EPA ...
Microsoft's Surface: The future shouldn't have compromises (review)
VentureBeat
These days, the best gadgets on the market are all aiming at the same lofty goal: no compromises. Consider the most recent MacBook Pros, Sony's NEX lineup of cameras (and similar mirrorless shooters), or Jawbone's fantastic Jambox Big wireless speaker: ...
Microsoft pushes for new image with Windows Phone 8 release
Phys.Org
Clearly, Microsoft - long associated with work, productivity and your company's IT department (the success of Xbox notwithstanding) - was trying to reach younger, hip consumers and attempting to do so not by talking about detailed specs, but by ...
Microsoft Is Reportedly Testing Its Own Smartphone
TechCrunch
First it built the Surface, and now Microsoft is said to be working on another new hardware product, this time a smartphone. That's according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, which says Microsoft is currently working with Asian component ...
Microsoft needs to step up its cloud game
InfoWorld
As InfoWorld's Ted Samson pointed out this week, Microsoft is intertwining Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Windows Azure to help developers build multiplatform, cloud-friendly apps. It announced a batch of new services and functionality for its cloud ...
Microsoft building its own Phone hardware: Not 'If', but 'When'
Register
Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has kept speculation alive, by saying "obviously" Microsoft would make more hardware. He told shareholders Microsoft would build specific devices for specific purposes and the BBC that he would "dive in" where ...
Microsoft Testing Its Own Smartphone, Reports WSJ
StudentNewsIE.com
While Android smartphones and Apple's iPhone surge ahead in today's smartphone driven world, Microsoft, the software giant lags behind by a huge margin, with its Windows Phone platform. The company Microsoft particularly wants to better is Apple.
Oprah Calls Microsoft Surface 'A Mercedes Benz'
Forbes
Forget tech bloggers writing for people who already spend half their time thinking about gadgets anyway – one review is worth more than all of those put together. While some may have given Microsoft's new Surface tablet high marks for design despite ...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM software now includes Yammer and Skype
TechTarget
Microsoft yesterday unveiled the latest update to its Dynamics CRM software. The software now includes a new user interface, integration with the Skype Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP service and a fuller connection to the Yammer social network ...


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