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Microsoft delivers preview of Skype for Windows Phone 8
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Microsoft's Skype client for Windows Phone 8 is available in preview form. Along with some readers, I've got qualms over the way contact integration is handled. Mary Jo Foley. By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | November 12, 2012 -- 12 ...
Watch: Microsoft's 'Star Trek' Universal Translator — Would It Have Downsides?
TIME
Microsoft may have co-opted Star Trek a full century early by demonstrating an honest-to-goodness universal translator — one that not only renders what you're saying into another language in real time, but that manages to sound like you while doing so.
Microsoft likely to leash iOS Office apps to Office 365, say analysts
Computerworld
Microsoft is betting big on Office 365, which for the first time will feature plans aimed at consumers and small businesses that let them install copies of the suite on their computers and other devices, not simply run scaled-down Web-based apps ...
Microsoft's Bizarro World LinuxCon Sponsorship
LinuxInsider.com
Then again, "as per this [PCWorld] article Microsoft is offering Linux on its Azure platform, so its quite reasonable for a major vendor of Linux services to want to be part of a Linux conference (and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud when I ...
Microsoft chief technology officer: Why the need for so many apps?
Denver Post
Even so, Microsoft is making a push to bolster its lineup of Windows 8 apps. The company's terms are more favorable for developers than Apple's. While Apple pockets 30 percent on third-party app revenue, Microsoft lowers its cut from 30 percent to 20 ...
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights:Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., General Electric ...
Sacramento Bee
CHICAGO, Nov. 12, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently ...
Microsoft to Conquer iOS with Office 365
Benzinga
But Microsoft is moving into a new era. While the company might think of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as more of a competitor than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), it can use both firms to its advantage. By bringing Office to iOS and Android, Microsoft will gain access ...
DirectX 11.1 not coming to Windows 7
bit-tech.net
Answering a developer's question about the WARP software rasteriser, Microsoft's Daniel Moth confessed in a post that developers wishing to use WARP will be limited to Windows 8. 'DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, just like DirectX 11 was part of ...

bit-tech.net
Ballmer Claims Microsoft Surface RT Sales are off to a "Modest" Start
Maximum PC
Exact sales figures on devices can be somewhat hard to come by. Apple will occasionally share how many "iOS device's they sold in a quarter", they might even be generous enough to separate phones and tablets, but they rarely break it down by model.

Maximum PC
Concurrency Adds Two to Senior Management Team Given Record Growth in ...
Einnews Portugal
BROOKFIELD, WI, November 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Concurrency, Inc., the 2012 Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year and worldwide Content Management Partner of the Year, announced today that Kate Weiland and Paul Cielinski have ...
Here's the Army of Celebs Microsoft Is Using to Pimp Windows Phone 8
Gizmodo
Microsoft already had Jessica Alba extole the virtues of Windows Phone 8 at their launch event, and more celebrities like her haven't been far behind. Microsoft just pushed out two spots, one that features UK TV personality Holly Willoughby, and ...
Windows 8 deep-dive: Get to know the People app
PCWorld
Although it does allow you to commingle all of your social media and email associations—including those from Facebook, Google, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Outlook, Twitter, and your Microsoft Account—social media management is not the People app's main ...
Windows 8 Pro - Microsoft's New OS Standard
TheStreetTV
13 views. Show video statistics. I like this Like I dislike this. Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Nov 12, 2012 by TheStreetTV. Windows 8 Pro - Microsoft's New OS ...
Microsoft's Cloud Services Mix Leaves Many Vendors in the Dust
Computerworld India
If you look at the cloud service providers, only Microsoft has the full solution right now. With Azure and services such as Office 365, Redmond has both desktop- and server-based subscription services that comply with corporate requirements. Rob ...

Computerworld India
Microsoft's Skydrive website kills Opera browsers by sending 2 million NULL ...
The Next Web (blog)
A curious oversight in the source code of Microsoft's Skydrive website is making the service almost unusable for users of Opera's desktop browsers, after it was revealed that the code includes over 2 million NULL characters, causing it to hang and use ...

The Next Web (blog)
Colligo Launches Mobile SharePoint Content Management Platform
eWeek
Colligo also provides integration between SharePoint and Microsoft Outlook or the desktop, for managing email, connected or offline, on both Windows and Mac. Advanced metadata support helps reduce corporate risk by ensuring content is accurately ...

eWeek
A world without Linux: Where would Apache, Microsoft -- even Apple be today?
InfoWorld
Dabbling in alternative history is always a haphazard exercise. The intertwining of myriad factors and actions, mixed together in an infinitely complex historical equation that determines the future, renders any attempt to excise a certain variable ...
Microsoft Creates Giant Slide to promote 'fast and fun' Windows 8 at Bluewater
Connected Digital World
Microsoft has started its UK marketing activity for its new Windows 8 operating system by installing a giant slide in the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent over the weekend of the 2nd to the 4th November. I was lucky to have time with my family to have ...