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Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills
PCWorld
Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system's use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft radically redesigned the look ...
Microsoft CEO: Windows Phone sales will 'ramp up quickly'
ZDNet (blog)
According to Reuters, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has said that because Windows Phone 8 will be launched with its partners -- including Nokia -- the handset is expected to become a competitive, strong third-player in the market, and sales will be fast.
Acer: Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?
ZDNet
Acer's Greater China president Lin Xianlang has said Microsoft needs to learn that hardware development should be left to professional vendors. In a recent interview with Tencent Technology, Lin used the example that "hard rice" is not easy to eat ...
Microsoft CEO visits Israel, meets with Netanyahu
Huffington Post
JERUSALEM — Microsoft says its chief executive is kicking off an international promotional tour for the new Windows 8 operating system in Israel. Steve Ballmer met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday. Later, he was to ...
Microsoft Surface Review, Part 1: Performance And Display Quality
Tom's Hardware Guide
We bought Microsoft's Surface the day it came out, and we're ready with first impressions and benchmarks. Does the company enable a truly productivity-oriented experience to complement content consumption, or will we have to wait for the Surface Pro?
Microsoft CEO expects volumes on Windows Phone to 'ramp quickly'
Chicago Tribune
"With the work we have done with Nokia, HTC, Samsung and others ... there is now an opportunity to create really a strong third participant in the smartphone market," Ballmer said at an event to launch Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system in Israel, ...
Microsoft, Intel partner on educational discount programme
bit-tech.net
Clearly spooked by the success of the low-cost Linux-based Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Intel have teamed up with RM to launch the Shape the Future UK programme. Microsoft, Intel and RM Education have announced the Shape the Future UK programme ...

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Qorus Software Achieves a Microsoft Gold ISV Competency
Equities.com
Qorus Software, provider of document automation solutions for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office, today announced it has attained a Gold ISV (Independent Software Vendor) competency, demonstrating a "best-in-class" ability and commitment to meet ...
Microsoft Halo 4, the Sci Fi adventure game on Xbox 360
Daily Bhaskar
New Delhi: Microsoft brings "Halo 4" to India, its biggest sci-fi blockbuster of the season, marking the return of the Master Chief. With increased pace and action, greater epic encounters, new interactive story elements, and more combat freedom than ...
Use Microsoft Word for Emergency Image Editing
Lifehacker
Saikat Basu at MakeUseOf has a great list of different image editing projects you can tackle within Microsoft Word. You can give photos soft edges, cut out backgrounds, and even work with rudimentary layers. Obvoiously, it's not the most efficient way ...
Finally, a use for Microsoft Azure: Storing Seagate biz backups
Register
Seagate's online backup service EVault will use the Microsoft Azure cloud as its back-end data vault. According to the Redmond software giant, Azure is good for storing bytes as well as crunching computational tasks. Seagate's EVault Endpoint ...
Developers praise Windows Phone 8 SDK, but virtualization and upgrades rankle
InfoWorld
With its newly released Windows Phone SDK 8.0, Microsoft is offering a better story for smartphone software developers, but the SDK itself may force some developers to undergo system upgrades. Technologists and developers who have sampled the SDK ...
Microsoft Windows Phone 8
PC Magazine
That's mostly potential, though, because Microsoft didn't release the Windows Phone 8 SDK to most developers in advance. So far, it's hard to find Windows Phone 8-only apps that use the new development strategies. Hopefully, they'll start showing up soon.
Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8
Computerworld
Its design uses the same active tiles found on Windows 8, Microsoft's new PC operating system that launched Friday. The tiles are constantly changing with fresh information so, for example, a weather tile will update with the latest forecast while the ...
Review: The Microsoft Surface Tablet
Business Insider
The Surface is a strange device, one that tries really hard to be everything at once, but never quite dazzling in one particular category. The Surface isn't a bad product by any means. But it is certainly a first-generation attempt by Microsoft, and it ...

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