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Microsoft Office for iPad will be unveiled this month
Satya Nadella is planning to host his first press event as Microsoft CEO next week. The software maker has been inviting members of the media to a special cloud- and mobile-focused event in San Francisco on March 27th.
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Xbox chief Marc Whitten leaves Microsoft for Sonos
Marc Whitten, the chief product officer of Xbox, has left Microsoft after 14 years with the company. Whitten helped to launch all three Xbox systems, from the original console back in 2001 to the Xbox One last year, and is now taking up the same role of chief product officer at wireless audio company Sonos.
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Microsoft launches OneNote for Mac, brings new features to note-taking service
Microsoft is launching some significant changes to its OneNote apps and service today. Now available for free on the Mac platform.
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Ex-Microsoft employee arrested for leaking company secrets
Remember all those Windows 8 screenshots that surfaced before the platform was released? Well, some of those might have been courtesy of Alex Kibkalo, an ex-Microsoft employee who was just arrested for stealing and leaking company secrets. Unlike the HTC execs who reportedly stole trade secrets to run a new firm, though, Kibkalo allegedly leaked info to a French tech blogger for something akin to revenge-he was apparently angry over receiving a poor performance review
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Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
The company's legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private email account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code. Read this article by Seth Rosenblatt on CNET News.
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Microsoft reveals DirectX 12
Microsoft and partners from Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm showed off the next version of the DirectX gaming API, DirectX 12, at the 2014 Game Developers Conference today. According to Microsoft officials, DirectX 12 will offer major improvements for developers across all Microsoft platforms: Windows, Xbox One and Windows mobile OSes.
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How Much Microsoft Charges the FBI for User Data
Microsoft charges the FBI hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for access to information about you. And their rates are on the rise. The Syrian Electronic Army says it hacked into the FBI's super-secret Digital Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), where they found the actual invoices from Microsoft detailing how much each request for data cost.
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It's not just Microsoft: Apple and Google can also read your emails
Microsoft accessed a French blogger’s Hotmail account and read his emails in order to assess his involvement with an alleged theft of Windows trade secrets. As numerous reports pointed out, Microsoft’s Hotmail and Outlook.com terms give the company the right to access and read users’ emails, and bloggers lashed out at Microsoft as a result. As it turns out, however, Microsoft isn’t the only tech giant that reserves the right to read your private correspondence.
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Tech Companies Are Reading Your Email. Do You Care?
Microsoft is reading your Hotmail! Are you surprised? That’s a serious question. Because I have a good sense of the innards of online mail and messaging services—I worked on Microsoft’s instant messenger for a time, which integrated with Hotmail—I have, paradoxically, less of a sense of what regular users expect in terms of privacy.
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Microsoft Word Is Under A Hack Attack: Do Not Open Documents Named '.RTF'
Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension. Microsoft says it's aware of attacks going on now, but there's no fix yet to stop the hackers. It's working on a way to stop the bug.
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Xbox One users to begin receiving warnings for bad behavior online
Microsoft is tweaking the reputation system on Xbox One this week, introducing notifications for players who are being penalized for "disruptive" or "abusive" behavior on Xbox Live, the company announced today.
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Microsoft unveils Office for iPad, free for reading and presenting
After years and years of rumors, Office for iPad is finally here. At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Microsoft Office general manager Julia White has unveiled the company’s latest...
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Microsoft: Let's be clear, WE won't snoop on your email – but the cops will
Redmond rewrites T&Cs AGAIN – and taps up privacy warriors for help
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Microsoft Office for the iPad: It’s the Suite You Want If You Want Office on Your iPad
The more versions of Office you use, the better this one looks. But where's printing? First, a disclaimer: You can’t rush your way through reviewing an office suite. Exploring a new word processor, spreadsheet or presentation app is plenty of work on its own; judging all three is something you can’t do in a few hours
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Microsoft buys AR headset patents for $100-150 million
With all eyes on Facebook's acquisition of Oculus Rift, Microsoft has quietly bought up six already-issued and 75 in-progress patents for augmented reality glasses, originally taken out by wearable computing company Osterhout Design Group. That's according to a report over at Tech Crunch.
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Office for iPad: Big deal or big yawn?
My latest techie debate is on! I say Office on iPad is a big yawn while my worthy opponent thinks if's the Office you need on the device you want. Puhlease! ;-)
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How to install Linux Mint on your XP PC
Installing Linux Mint on an XP PC is something any Windows power user can do.
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In just over a week, XP stragglers will be hit with 'every form of malware possible'
Unless you're already paying Microsoft extra to keep your Windows XP machines safe from malware then you really should upgrade to either Windows 7 or Windows 8 within the next week. Tom's Guide tal...
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Future Windows 8.1 update will finally bring back the Start menu
New menu combines classic Start menu look with new Live Tiles.
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The Most Exciting New Features of the Latest Windows Phone OS
Microsoft VP's announced a slew of new features for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 at its annual BUILD developer conference Wednesday. The updates promise to make the experience of using both OSes -- particularly Windows Phone -- more personalized, more efficient, and more intelligent. Here are some of the highlights.
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