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Microsoft Signs Up Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z to Promote Windows Phone 8
PC Magazine
We've all heard the statistic: Microsoft's allegedly spending a whole truckload of money to market Windows 8. And we've all heard about what that's going to mean: Essentially, Windows 8 on every corner; advertisements in every place you read; mentions ...
Defects surface in Microsoft's tablet
Stuff.co.nz
Microsoft says a small number of covers for its Surface tablet are prone to splitting after two weeks or less in users' hands and that it's replacing the defective ones. The company is "aware of a small number of instances of material separation" of ...
Get Ready: Microsoft and Yammer to Announce Some Game Changing Solutions
Forbes
For those who want to understand it – you won't find better guides than Yammer's Cofounder and CTO, Adam Pisoni and Microsoft's Corporate VP, Jeff Teper. Both tell me the teams are hard at work in developing the next generation social platform. Both ...
Microsoft, tech firms give DC green light for St. Elizabeths
Washington Examiner
With D.C. favoring Microsoft and two other firms as anchors for the old St. Elizabeths Hospital, the city no longer has to rely on the planned move of thousands of federal employees there to start attracting more commercial development. The ...
Skype replaces Microsoft Messenger for online calls
Business Recorder (blog)
Microsoft on November 6 announced that recently-acquired Skype will replace its Messenger online chat service. "Skype and Messenger are coming together," Skype said in a post at its website. "By updating to Skype, Messenger users can instant message ...
Microsoft backs Government's telework initiative
ARNnet
Microsoft Australia managing director, Pip Marlow, has welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement that the Australian Public Service (APS) will commit to the Government's National Digital Economy Strategy goal by having at least 12 per cent of APS ...
Govt-Microsoft panel aims at more consistency, less cost
Computerworld New Zealand
The Department of Internal Affairs has set up a panel of five service providers for licence administration and management services in connection with government agencies' purchase of Microsoft products and services. This latest all-of-government ICT ...