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How Nokia's fake Windows phone could save the real one
Something very interesting is going on at Nokia: The company apparently believes that the look, feel, and underlying services of the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system may be more important than, well, the OS itself.
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Microsoft's Kinect Is Now Guarding the Korean Border
Self-taught South Korean programmer Jae Kwan Ko developed a Kinect-based software system to monitor the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), which separates the two countries. It was deployed at the border last August, but its existence wasn't made public until recently.
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How Yahoo Can Get Its Search Mojo Back From Microsoft
Yahoo reportedly wants out of a deal that ties its search services to Microsoft, and is preparing new technological initiatives to reclaim its position in the search market. According to Kara Swisher at Re/code, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pushing two new initiatives called “Fast Break” and “Curveball” that could position Yahoo once again as a player in Web search and the lucrative search-advertising market that accompanies it.
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Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates steps down as chairman
Microsoft's executive vice president for enterprise is now CEO.
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Microsoft invests in Foursquare, will use its data to make Bing and Windows better
Following months of speculation, Microsoft will be investing $15 million in Foursquare. The Wall Street Journal reports the investment comes with a "strategic partnership" between the companies, one that will help Foursquare sustain its business and give Microsoft access to a trove of location-based data.
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Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1
A Microsoft spokesman said that Mr. Gates’ first day in his new job had been “a learning experience.”
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Here's why Google succeeded in mobile while Microsoft is floundering
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the failure of Vista was his biggest regret as CEO because it meant he had to devote more resources to fixing it and had fewer resources to devote to making a better mobile operating system. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, however, thinks that Microsoft’s struggles in the mobile world go far beyond this and are instead fundamentally about the company not understanding the importance of the iPhone back when it launched in 2007.
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Microsoft Talks On Amazon Acquiring Killer Instinct Dev Double Helix Games
Reports have appeared online that Amazon, the online retailer, has acquired video game developer Double Helix Games. Double Helix Games is the developer behind the recent Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct, and the upcoming reboot of Strider, which is releasing later this month.
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A Different Gates Is Returning to Microsoft
The last time Bill Gates played an active role at Microsoft, as chief software architect, he witnessed the company muffing its earliest efforts to become a major player in search, smartphones and tablet computers. In the six years since then, he has watched as the technology industry changed without him. The personal computer era that Microsoft so ably dominated during and after Mr. Gates’s heyday as Microsoft’s chief executive has started to fade away.
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Windows Phone 8.1 'Cortana' personal assistant will be powered by Foursquare
Microsoft’s $15 million investment in Foursquare will soon result in product changes in the coming months. Bloomberg News reports that the deal will be used for location data and services that...
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Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from?
Three companies dominate the tech landscape in 2014: Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Although they compete directly and indirectly in various segments, each company has its own distinct financial personality.
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Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
Canning Windows Phone and using Android would be a huge mistake.
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Microsoft Asks Windows XP Holdouts: Upgrade to Windows 8 Already
Windows XP has but 59 days left to live – officially, that is. On April 8, as we've reported numerous times previously, Microsoft is officially pulling the plug on the operating system. The not-so-insignificant number of users running the legacy OS will still be able to use it, but they won't be able to count on Microsoft for patches, updates, security fixes, and other forms of support past the cutoff date.
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4 Things Microsoft Still Does Well
It’s easy (and popular) to predict further disaster for the once-proud tech titan. But quietly, Microsoft is doing several things well—better than we give it credit for.
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What the Heck is Happening to Windows?
When critics described Windows 8.1 as a step backwards, I disagreed: Responding to customer complaints is never wrong, I argued, and the new version of the OS made it more acceptable on the many different types of PCs and devices on which Windows now runs.
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Bill Gates Says Digital Currencies Could Be Huge
Bill Gates is hosting an AMA on Reddit right now. Redditors have asked questions about everything from his new role at Microsoft to what his most expensive guilty pleasure purchase was (for the record: his private plane). One user asked him what his thoughts were about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US
English and Chinese language queries for terms such as ‘Dalai Lama’ return radically different results on Microsoft search engine.
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Is Microsoft possibly bringing Android apps to Windows Phone a good thing?
It’d probably be an understatement to suggest Microsoft is having trouble getting more developers to fill their apps store with the goods users are looking for. Unfortunately they seem to have found themselves in a classic “chicken or egg scenario” — users won’t come to the platform unless there are apps, but developers won’t develop apps if there are no users.
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Microsoft's new PC gaming guru departs after just six months
When Jason Holtman joined Microsoft to work on the company's Windows gaming strategy, it sounded like a match made in heaven. Microsoft was in the process of dismantling its oft-reviled Games for Windows Live program, and Holtman had just spent eight years turning Steam into a comparatively beloved platform for digital game sales. Apparently, it was not to be: after just six months, Holtman has left the company.
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Could Xbox Survive without Microsoft?
After less than a week as the new CEO of Microsoft, The Washington Post reports Satya Nadella is reportedly under significant pressure to “abandon… non-essential product lines” and refocus on Microsoft’s bread and butter—Office, Server, and other things their business customers buy in droves. That means Bing, Surface, and even Xbox are potentially on the chopping block.
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