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Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage
USA TODAY
Microsoft Surface touchscreen tablet computers running the Windows 8 operating system are shown at "Build," Microsoft Corp.'s developers conference, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Redmond, Wash. (Photo: Ted S. Warren AP) ...
Microsoft releases Windows 8 software in Pakistan
Business Recorder (blog)
KARACHI: With the introduction of smartphones and tablets Microsoft slid in with their latest product, the highly-anticipated Windows 8 software launch in Pakistan. Sherif Morsi, Windows Client Business Group Lead, North Africa, Middle East and ...

Business Recorder (blog)
Why Microsoft Says the Patent System Is Peachy Keen
Wired
Bart Eppenauer grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and after moving away for college and law school and a first job in Chicago, he came back to his hometown, joining a Kansas City law firm called Shook, Hardy & Bacon. It was there, in the late '90s, that ...

Wired
Telefonica and Microsoft to Deploy New Global Video Platform
Sacramento Bee
Telefonica's new global convergent video platform, based on the Microsoft Mediaroom product suite, will power its pay TV and OTT services across its Operating Businesses, with first deployments in Brazil, Chile and Spain. By Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp.
Steve Wozniak opines on whether Microsoft is now more innovative than Apple
The Seattle Times
TechCrunch has a short video interview (see above) with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in which The Woz has some very interesting things to say about the innovations he's seeing coming out of Microsoft and his worries about Apple. A choice Woz quote ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Live From The Churchill Club
Forbes
Before we get started, a bit of news I picked up during the cocktail hour: Microsoft investor relations chief Bill Koefoed, who is widely respected both inside Microsoft and on the Street, is shifting roles: he'll be the new chief financial officer at ...
Top Workplaces winners out of 237 companies: Quicken Loans, Microsoft and ...
Detroit Free Press
In the midsize category, which includes employers with 150 to 499 workers, Microsoft's Detroit office took first place, followed by Team Rehabilitation, J.O. Galloup, Warner Norcross & Judd and TNG Worldwide. Among small businesses, McGraw Wentworth ...
Microsoft Rewards 'Longest' Xbox Live Members With Special Consoles
Gamenguide
Microsoft will reward the longest Xbox Live Members with special consoles on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Xbox Live. "I can confirm we're surprising some of the #Xbox Live members that have been with us the longest with one of these," ...
How Microsoft will Lure App Developers
UCStrategies
The future of Microsoft rests on their ability to entice app developers to create the new applications for Windows 8. Their wide range of incentives and offerings are sure to have developers knocking on their doors. Some of the features available to ...
Apple's Patently Profitable Portfolio
Seeking Alpha
When Google released Android, they stepped on a multitude of patents from Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL). Rather than negotiate licensing deals with patent holders in advance, they released their OS into the wild, leaving their partners to duke it ...
Microsoft Sued Over Surface's Available Storage Space
StudentNewsIE.com
Microsoft is facing legal charges that have been pressed against it by a Los Angeles, California based lawyer. Andrew Sokolowski's argument is that the Surface tablet he bought recently does not have the amount of free storage space as advertised by ...
Telefonica launches Microsoft video platform
Chicago Tribune
MADRID (Reuters) - Telefonica is to create a video platform with Microsoft, as part of the Spanish telecoms group's ongoing push into digital services. The new platform will enable services such as timeshifting and multiscreen across Telefonica's video ...
Mimvi Partners With Entrepreneur Media And Microsoft
Seeking Alpha
OB) announced that Microsoft (MSFT) had partnered and invested in the pure play app search and recommendation company at the end of September. That was until earlier today, when Mimvi announced it has signed an agreement with Entrepreneur Media ...
I Hate Microsoft and Shareholders Should Too
TheStreet.com
I go a little inside baseball because I understand a considerable chunk of TheStreet's audience might consume a headline that includes I Hate Microsoft and fire off an email to Jim Cramer demanding my termination on grounds that I'm not objective. I ...
Los Angeles man sues Microsoft over Surface storage claims
Los Angeles Times
After buying the device and loading it with content, Andrew Sokolowski discovered that the Surface does not have the 32 GB of storage Microsoft advertises because the tablet filled up to capacity too quickly. That's because the 32 GB Surface uses up ...
Microsoft Rolls Out IE 10 'Release Preview' for Windows 7
Redmond Channel Partner
A "release preview" version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available for download, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The timing of this test release may seem a bit odd, since the finished "release-to-Web" version of IE 10 for Windows 8 is ...
Microsoft's STEM Worker Shortage Solution
Human Resource Executive Online
Technology giant Microsoft feels Stott's pain, but at an even more acute level since the Redmond, Wash., company needs thousands of STEM workers to remain competitive with the other industry giants worldwide. As an antidote, Microsoft recently launched ...
Surface Tablet Suit: Lawyer Takes Action Against Microsoft Over Device's Lack ...
Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California lawyer is suing Microsoft, claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised. Andrew Sokolowski says he bought a Surface with 32 gigabytes of storage last week. But he ...
ABBYY Releases OCR Application for Microsoft Windows 8 Touch Interface
Broadcast Newsroom
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced the release of FineReader Touch, an innovative optical character recognition (OCR) ...
Surface tablet is most popular Windows 8 device
CBS News
Microsoft Surface tablet. / CNET. Microsoft's Surface RT tablet is the most popular single Windows 8/RT device, according to ad-based statistics. "Surface is already the most popular single device running Windows 8/RT with 11 percent of the overall ...

CBS News
On the Surface, Microsoft's "Kludgey" Tablet is Hardly Competition, Says HP
Maximum PC
Microsoft Surface Microsoft's hardware partners continue to take potshots at the company's Surface tablet. Last week, Acer warned Microsoft that delving into hardware is like "hard rice and "is not so easy to eat" (no joke, though something may have ...
Overview of e-Discovery Across the Microsoft Office Platform #spc12
CMSWire
Microsoft has joined in the e-Discovery fray, now pushing a unified offering across the entire Office platform. At the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, I sat in a session by Quentin Christensen, Program Manager at Microsoft, to see exactly what ...

CMSWire
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer attacks Android and Apple
Telegraph.co.uk
Microsoft boss Ballmer blasted the Android ecosystem as uncontrolled, while criticising Apple's ecosystem as being highly-priced and tightly controlled. He said: "The ecosystem of the Android is a little bit wild, that is from an app compatibility ...