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Microsoft Surface RT tablet touch cover keyboard fuels complaints
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft's hip marketing may be luring people to buy its Surface RT tablets, but it hasn't prevented some customers from complaining that the touch cover keyboard falls apart. Even though the iPad rival has only been on the marketfor a little more ...
Microsoft closes in on Star Trek's Universal Translator
DVICE
Here at DVICE, you have our attention anytime someone talks about a universal translator, so we're definitely interested in the latest developments from Microsoft in which chief research officer Rick Rashid demonstrated software that converted his ...
Microsoft Hosts Global 'Appathon' to Promote Windows 8, Phone Apps
eWeek
Microsoft held application development workshops at 110 locations globally Nov. 9 to teach developers how to write applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – Microsoft invited software developers to come here and to 109 ...

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Microsoft Windows 8, RT fixes will be rolled out on November 13th
The Droid Guy
Microsoft's recently launched operating systems, Windows 8 and Windows RT, will be getting their first update on Tuesday, November 13th, according to the bulletin posted on the company's website. The purpose of the roll out would be to address the ...

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Ballmer says Microsoft Surface RT sales off to 'modest' start
Engadget
Microsoft's been holding Surface for Windows RT sales figures close to its chest so far, but CEO Steve Ballmer has allowed in an interview with Le Parisien that the much ballyhooed tablet is off to a "modest" start. The bombastic exec gave that ...
To Understand Just How Much The Cloud Will Change The World, Look At Toyota
Business Insider
Last month, Hicks freed up more of his team from desktop-support drudgery when Toyota signed a massive deal with Microsoft Office 365, its cloud alternative to Exchange email and Microsoft Office desktop software. The deal took more than two years, but ...
Firm caught in Microsoft sting too scared to talk
Stuff.co.nz
ComputerXpress director Andrew Clasby said he had been told a gagging clause meant Microsoft was free to say what it liked about the offences and settlements but ComputerXpress was unable to explain its actions, meaning some people had assumed the ...
Video Game Gift Guide: Making the Right Play
CIO Today
Microsoft and Sony have 35 million and 22 million systems, respectively, in U.S. homes, and it will not be easy this holiday season to expand that foothold, Divnich says. But for shoppers who have considered but put off buying an Xbox 360 or ...

CIO Today
Microsoft Software Provides Instant Chinese Translation In User's Own Voice
RedOrbit
Microsoft unveiled a new translation technology this week that converts spoken English into spoken Chinese nearly instantaneously. The system then pumps the translation through speakers in the user's own voice, preserving both the intonation and cadence.

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