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Did Microsoft just promise a universal translator?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
In a blog post Thursday, Microsoft Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid wrote about the Redmond tech giant's new speech-recognition and translation technology, and how he showed it off at the company's Research Asia's 21st Century Computing event, ...
Microsoft Demos A Star Trek-Style Universal Translator [Video]
ReadWriteWeb
Share on: Microsoft Demos A Star Trek-Style Universal Translator [Video]. Microsoft has showed off research that takes us significantly closer to a Star Trek-style universal translator: natural language translation, in.
Xbox 360 gets it's USB data storage limit doubled by Microsoft
Examiner.com
A long time ago, back in March of 2010, Microsoft put in a title update for it's Xbox 360 dashboard that allowed gamers to connect USB and external hard drives to their consoles. This allowed gamers who had maxed out their stock hard drives more room ...

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Microsoft Responds To Surface RT Touch Cover Tearing Issues
Forbes
Yesterday a small number of Surface RT owners began posting at SurfaceForums.net, issuing complaints about the hybrid tablet's Touch Cover cracking and exposing bare wire along the seam where the keyboard attaches to the slate. As a Surface owner ...

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Microsoft demos English-to-Chinese universal translator that keeps your voice ...
ExtremeTech
At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the software also preserves the user's accent and intonation.

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Microsoft to biz: Just so you get off XP, we don't mind if you go Win 7
Register
Despite the shiny, consumer-friendly crayon box of Surface and the Glee-style TV ads, Microsoft wants us to know that Windows 8 has a serious side, and is perfect for the enterprise. But it seems that a lot of its business-class features might be ...
Some Microsoft Surface Touch Covers Crack After Two Weeks
Slate
Is Microsoft's new Surface tablet literally coming apart at the seams? That's what some early owners are claiming. Users have started to pop up on forums dedicated to the much-hyped new device complaining that the touch cover, featuring a sleek ...