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| Surface: is it "Microsoft's iPad", or something else? ZDNet Last week, when I finally received my Surface I was in a position to sit down and write a comment piece on what I thought the device was like and what it meant. I've been using Windows 8 full time since March, so I didn't feel I needed to get to know ... | ||
| Microsoft to kill off the Messenger client and regroup under the Skype brand Ars Technica Microsoft's instant messaging and video chat are set for a major shake-up, with Microsoft announcing today that the Windows Live Messenger brand and client will be retired in the first quarter of 2013. They'll be replaced by the Skype client and Skype ... | ||
| Microsoft invests $100m in Brazil with new technology center ZDNet (blog) Microsoft is investing around $100 million in Rio de Janerio, Brazil's capital, over the next four years by expanding its reach into the market with a new technology center. First reported by Brazilian newspaper Agência Estado, the new technology ... | ||
| First look: Microsoft's sharp, new Windows Phone SDK InfoWorld Was it only six years ago that Windows Mobile was a big part of the cellphone business? That was a time when only programmers thought of a mobile phone as a computer. Now we're heading into the second or third generation of the smartphone, and the ... | ||
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| Microsoft delivers powerful desktop tools for Windows admins InfoWorld App-V, UE-V, MED-V, MBAM, AGPM, DaRT -- if these acronyms don't mean anything to you, it's high time you became acquainted with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), an amazing suite of six tools for easing virtualization, management, and ... | ||
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| Microsoft Confirms Live Messenger Retirement Tom's Hardware Guide Microsoft updated the official Skype blog on Tuesday with confirmation that the Windows Live Messenger client will be retired. The news arrives just one day after unnamed sources revealed Microsoft's Messenger plans, and after Tom's posted its own ... | ||
| Report: Microsoft building a 7-inch gaming tablet NBCNews.com Microsoft is secretly working on a 7-inch Xbox Surface tablet, according to a report from tech blog The Verge. The site reported Tuesday that the tablet will be gaming focused and is expected to launch ahead of the next version of the Xbox home console ... | ||
| Is Microsoft building a 7" Xbox Surface? Forbes When Microsoft announced SmartGlass â€" a second screen experience to augment Xbox 360 games and entertainment â€" it delivered a subtle jab to Nintendo and their imminent Wii U console. If Microsoft is designing a 7″ Xbox Surface tablet, however, ... | ||
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| Microsoft bids to 'reinvent' digital ads Marketing Week Microsoft is setting out a vision to “reinvent†and improve the industry standard for digital and mobile advertising to help improve the way all operating system companies serve ads to consumers on personal devices. Windows 8. The company is hoping ... | ||
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| Microsoft Reveals Strategy Turning Towards Entertainment And Content Fast Company If you still see Microsoft mainly as a firm to do business with, think again. As well as its foray into hardware, the software giant has been busy boosting its power in the entertainment and content world. Ahead of today's Halo 4 release The Verge has ... | ||
| Voters test Microsoft's Surface as ballot machine in US city ZDNet Summary: Microsoft's new tablet is being trialled in a precinct of Charlottesville, Virginia, in Tuesday's state and national elections. The slate is being used to run a web app that Microsoft has been working on with a firm called Democracy Live ... |
