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Microsoft Surface: Estimated cost shows priority for profits
PCWorld
The bill for the materials for the Surface with Windows RT, provided by IHS to All Things Digital, claims that the 32GB version of Microsoft's tablet, without the Touch Cover, costs $271 to build. The display, memory chips, and Nvidia's Tegra 3 ...
Microsoft Plumbs Yield Depths With AAA Issue
Businessweek
"Microsoft carries a certain level of cachet in this market as a highly defensive and economic resilient borrower," said Thomas Chow, a money manager at Delaware Investments in Philadelphia with about $170 billion under management. "It's as strong and ...
Microsoft updates C++ compiler
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 integrated development environment, or IDE, so that Windows application developers can use parts of the latest version of the programming language, C++11. Friday ...
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing finally pays off in a big way
Network World
Back in 2002, then-Microsoft CTO and Senior Vice President Craig Mundie authored a whitepaper on what would be come the framework of the company's Trustworthy Computing program. It would be built around four pillars that all Microsoft products would ...
Halo 4 takes aim at No. 1 game of 2012 with midnight debut at 10000 stores
VentureBeat
Halo 4 is one of the most anticipated video games — let alone first-person shooters — of 2012, and franchise publisher Microsoft is preparing the release of what it calls "the year's biggest entertainment event" by with a midnight release at 10,000 ...

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Kinect Fusion, Microsoft's 3-D Modeling Technology, Is Coming To The Kinect ...
TechCrunch
Originally a research project from Microsoft's lab in Cambridge, U.K., Kinect Fusion works by taking the incoming depth data in the Kinect for Windows sensor, and uses the sequence of frames to build a highly detailed 3-D map of either an object, or ...

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Ford And Microsoft Deliver Their 5 Millionth SYNC-Enabled Vehicle, Plan To ...
TechCrunch
At GigaOm's Roadmap event today, Microsoft and Ford just announced that they have delivered more than 5 million SYNC-enabled cars. SYNC, Ford's in-car connectivity system, is powered by Microsoft's embedded platform and launched about five years ...
Fitch Rates Microsoft's Note Offering 'AA+'; Outlook Stable
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
--Fitch expects the launch of the Surface tablet, particularly the Pro version, to be a commercial success given its compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, enhanced security and easier manageability, given the existing Windows installed base ...
What is Microsoft Office 365
Examiner.com
The integration of services, processes, and people are becoming very intertwined and Microsoft has developed the software that allows this collaboration to occur. They have developed a platform to take advantage of this cloud computing phenomenon that ...

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Hands-on: Microsoft's Sculpt Touch Mouse, Sculpt Mobile Keyboard Designed ...
Tom's Hardware Guide
But first let's start with the "designed for Windows 8" peripherals. Out of all the gadgets Microsoft has tossed our way, I've used the Sculpt Touch Bluetooth Mouse the most, shown above. That's probably due to its form factor: it fits nicely in the ...
Nexus is the tonic to Apple and Microsoft greed says Google exec
SlashGear
Google's Nexus program is a push back against Apple and Microsoft greed, an Android exec has argued, describing Motorola Mobility as a way to "disarm" attacks on the OS rather than segue into hardware. "There are players in the industry who were ...

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Microsoft, Apple and Big Tech for the Remainder of 2012
Investorplace.com
Last week I suggested that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)would be the ultimate winner in the long war for dominance of the smartphone and tablet markets. Though Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) dominates today, it has no real defensible "moats" that would prevent an ...
It's time for Mac vs PC like campaign. Windows Phone vs iPhone, if Microsoft ...
Unwired View
This harsh reality Microsoft faces around the world is very similar in the critical US market. According to Comscore's Q3 2012 report, while approximately 51% of the population use a smartphone, every flavor of Windows Mobile/Windows Phone totaled a ...
Microsoft's JavaScript Move
Dr. Dobb's
The JavaScript language has had at least nine lives. It made its official debut in 1996 as part of the Netscape browser and has happily survived the first 15 years of the Internet era. JavaScript was designed to be a simple language to help authors ...
Windows Phone 8: 5 BYOD Considerations
InformationWeek
Ojas Rege, VP of strategy at MobileIron, said in an email that WP8 is "a player," because "it has a compelling user experience ... and a seat at the table with IT." But he cautioned that "this doesn't guarantee success" so much as afford Microsoft an ...
Six key messages Microsoft is sending to Windows 8 developers
PCWorld
Ballmer opened things up Tuesday by noting that Microsoft has sold 4 million Windows 8 upgrades since the operating system went on sale three days ago. (For context, 670 million Windows 7 PCs have the potential to run Windows 8.) And current estimates ...

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Consumers are actually giving Windows 8 decent reviews so far
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