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Microsoft Surface parody ad takes on the iPad
SlashGear
While Apple's many commercials can be considered "cute," if you will, some may say that they're still missing a little bit of pizzazz that would make them even more attention-getting. From the guys who brought you those funny Siri parody commercials ...
How Microsoft is monetizing Messenger: Turn it into Skype
ZDNet (blog)
Messenger was making a fraction of Skype's revenue by comparison, and Microsoft wants to start generating its $8.5 billion back that it spent on the Skype purchase in the first place. It's all about the money. Sorry, users. You're on the back seat on this.
Microsoft Office for iOS, Android could debut early next year
CNET
Office Mobile, as it's dubbed, would let Microsoft account users view Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files on their mobile devices. But, the Verge added, editing the documents would require an Office 365 subscription. The apps would reportedly provide ...
Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday
Computerworld
But the move to synchronize Flash Player updates with Microsoft's monthly patch schedule was the bigger news. "Starting with the next Flash Player security update, we plan to release regularly-scheduled security updates for Flash Player on 'Patch ...
Microsoft Struts Its Stuff
CRM Buyer
Truth in reporting: I was a Microsoft's guest for this event; they paid for my travel. To be blunt, I can't afford to fly around to event after event on my nickel, so when vendors wish to brief me in person, that's how I travel. We all understand that ...
Microsoft rolls out new Xbox SmartGlass iOS app
VentureBeat
Microsoft has updated its Xbox Live companion application for iOS devices, giving it a new SmartGlass rebranding. The free new app is much more intuitive. You can now use the touch screen as it was meant to be used, with gesture-based controls that ...

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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8 in Nigeria
AllAfrica.com
At the open door event held Tuesday in Lagos, the software giant, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8, a wide range of apps available on more than 1000 Windows 8 certified PCs and tablets to its customers and partners in Nigeria. With the arrival of the ...
Microsoft will 'die and disappear' in next few years: Futurist
MSN Money
With the Windows Surface RT selling out of its available stock -- and winning an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, no less -- it may seem like Microsoft (MSFT) is riding on a high. Despite the short-term good news, the long-term fate fate of the company ...
Angry Birds Space On Windows Phone 8 Reinforces Microsoft's Mobile Gaming ...
Forbes
Announced back in March, it has taken eight months for Rovio's gravity defying title to reach Windows Phone. At the time the omission of Microsoft's mobile platform was shorthand for the problems that Redmond were having around third party applications.
You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for ...
Network World
Microsoft research is developing Differential Privacy technology that would act like a privacy guard and go-between when researchers query databases. It would insure that no individual could be re-identified, protect privacy by keeping people anonymous ...
Microsoft bestätigt das Aus für Windows Live Messenger - komplette Skype ...
Hard Tecs 4U
Was am Montag noch als Gerücht die Runde machte, wurde von Microsoft nun offiziell bestätigt. Microsoft setzt künftig auf Skype als Messenger-Programm und stellt den Windows Live Messenger ab Anfang 2013 komplett ein. Schon eine Weile ist es möglich ...
David Cameron praises initiative by Microsoft to help unemployed young people
The Independent
Prime Minister David Cameron today welcomed an initiative by computing giants Microsoft to help 300,000 jobless young people in the UK take steps towards work over the next three years. Mr Cameron was meeting Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at 10 ...
Windows Live Messenger To Be Scrapped By 2013, Microsoft Encourages ...
Huffington Post
For those who grew up in the pre-Facebook, pre-smartphone era, the news is bittersweet. Some of our first social activity online took place using instant messaging programs like AIM, ICQ and Windows Live, once known as MSN Messenger. But it makes ...