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Microsoft Surface, Apple's iPad mini, other tablets get the teardown treatment Washington Post There are a lot of new tablets on the market this holiday season, but which one represents the most profit for its manufacturer? IHS took a stab at the question by estimating how much the hardware costs are for the iPad mini, Amazon Kindle Fire HD and ... | ||
Microsoft confirms its moving to Skype from Windows Live Messenger SlashGear Just yesterday we reported that Microsoft was rumored to be discontinuing Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype. While the company's latest 6.0 update supported that claim with integrated Windows Live Messenger account sign-in, it wasn't until today ... | ||
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Microsoft's aggressive grand plan for merging Skype and Messenger takes shape ZDNet On the back-end, in the months after Microsoft's acquisition of Skype was finalized, the pair have been moving Skype to use the Windows Messenger infrastructure. Storage of pictures, video and other Skype content is now happening on Windows Azure. | ||
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Microsoft Builds Out Social CRM Ecosystem ProgrammableWeb (blog) Microsoft as expected last week announced that it would be integrating its Yammer social networking and Skype unified communications services with Microsoft Dynamics CRM software. This week Microsoft took that effort a step further via an alliance with ... | ||
Linux Foundation Sponsors Now Includes Microsoft? InternetNews.com (blog) I remember sitting down with Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation not long after Microsoft announced it was becoming a sponsor of the Apache Foundation in 2008. At the time Zemlin told me that Microsoft had no place at the Linux ... | ||
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Beneath the Surface: Microsoft tablet is too slow and buggy HeraldNet The Surface is also the most celebrated home for Windows 8, the touch-friendly operating system that Microsoft is hoping will become a big hit on tablet machines. In other words, a lot -- for Microsoft, perhaps everything -- is riding on the Surface ... | ||
Is a Pullback In the Cards for Microsoft? Schaeffers Research (blog) The shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT - 29.63) extended their recent rebound yesterday, but are now facing potential resistance at their formerly supportive 50-week moving average. Against this backdrop, it looks like some options ... | ||
Google Threatens Microsoft's Office Dominance Internet Evolution Next month, Microsoft Office will celebrate its 22nd anniversary. The suite survived competition from Corel's Word Perfect, Lotus 123, and Sun's Open Office. For two decades, it has innovated, thrived, and captured the enterprise market. Microsoft ... | ||
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