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Microsoft unveils Cortana, its answer to Siri and Google Now
Microsoft has just announced Cortana, a new voice search tool for Windows Phone 8.1. Powered by Bing, it will eventually replace the search function in...
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Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make sure that their wealth from Microsoft went back into society. In a conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as about their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their wealth away.
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Microsoft: Yes, We're Bringing Back the Start Menu
Microsoft's Terry Myerson showed off the new version of the Start Menu to an audience of developers at Build 2014 as he explained that users would be able to find apps via the menu. Users would also be able to run Modern (aka "Metro") apps within windows on the desktop.
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Xbox password flaw exposed by five-year-old boy
A five-year-old boy who worked out a security vulnerability on Microsoft's Xbox Live service has been officially thanked by the company. Kristoffer Von Hassel, from San Diego, figured out how to log in to his dad's account without the right password. Microsoft has fixed the flaw, and added Kristoffer to its list of recognised security researchers.
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Child finds Xbox security flaw
A five-year-old boy who worked out a security vulnerability on Microsoft's Xbox Live service has been officially thanked by the company.
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1080p for all? Performance gap between Xbox One and PS4 is fading away, Oddworld dev says
Right now, more high-profile games run in 1080p on PlayStation 4 than Xbox One, but the performance gap between the two competing systems is narrowing, according to Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning. Speaking with Xbox360Achievements, Lanning said the two consoles are "getting comparable."
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Xbox has landfill dig for Atari games approved
Permission has been granted for a film crew to excavate a landfill suspected of containing millions of unsold Atari game cartridges. The dig is searching for a cache of cartridges, including copies of Atari's utterly disastrous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial adaptation as part of an original documentary for Xbox.
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Was Windows 8 a Mistake? Microsoft Seems to Think So
Microsoft showed off the future of Windows this week at its 2014 Build developer conference, and it looks pretty retro. In fact, it looks a lot like Windows 7. During a tease of some possible new features in a future update, Microsoft's executive vice-president of operating systems Terry Myerson revealed a tool that users will recognize from previous versions of Windows: a Start menu.
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Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late?
Just a two months into the tenure of new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft feels like an entirely different company. It’s finally letting go of the past and looking towards the future. That’s nothing less than a wonderful thing, but it comes with a caveat: You have to wonder if it came too late.
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Not dead yet: Dutch, British governments pay to keep Windows XP alive
Windows XP is supposed to be dead next week. But the Dutch and British governments have both inked deals with Microsoft to continue to keep it on life support, at least for them—under Microsoft’s Custom Support program.
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Microsoft shows off 'Windows for cars' concept
With its own personal assistant Cortana coming, Microsoft has lifted the lid on its ambition to bring the Windows Phone experience to the dashboard regardless of whether it's powered by Windows, Linux or Android.
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Microsoft to start blocking adware that lacks easy uninstall
Microsoft has toughened its criteria for classifying programs as adware and gave developers three months to conform with the new principles or risk having their programs blocked by the company's security products. The most important change in Microsoft's policy is that adware programs will be blocked by default starting July 1. In the past such programs were allowed to run until users chose one of the recommended actions offered by the company's security software.
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Running Windows XP programs on Linux Mint with CrossOver
Thanks to WINE and its commercial big brother, CrossOver, you can run some popular Windows programs on Linux.
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Microsoft testing ways to make Windows Live Tiles interactive
In Asia, Microsoft researchers are experimenting with new ways to interact with the Live Tiles that are core to the Windows 8.X, Windows Phone, and Xbox user interfaces.
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How to run XP on Linux Mint with Oracle VirtualBox
For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.
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Windows Phone 8.1 review: A magnificent smartphone platform
For the growing number of Windows Phone users, Windows Phone 8 was a frustrating release. The major difference between Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 was invisible to end users: merely a kernel swap, going from Windows CE to Windows NT.
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Intel paints bleak picture for Windows tablets vs. Android
When Intel announced its tablet numbers for the first quarter on Tuesday, it was clear that Android buried Windows. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said during the company's first-quarter earnings conference call that out of the 5 million tablet processors shipped "80 to 90 percent" were for Android and the rest Windows. That leaves a pretty small number for Windows, underscoring the uphill battle Microsoft is fighting against Android and Apple in the tablet market.
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IRS misses the Windows XP deadline and now must pay a ridiculous fee to upgrade
Millions of Americans are feeling the pressure right now as they race to meet the Internal Revenue Service's April 15 deadline for filing income tax returns. So they'll probably get a little sense of schadenfreude (or perhaps justifiable rage) after hearing that the IRS has missed its own deadline for upgrading an aging computer system—a deadline it had six years to meet.
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Nokia Devices to become “Microsoft Mobile” on April 25
Microsoft will also run the Nokia.com website for a year.
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Chat Wars
In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft’s instant messaging app. The terrible name came from Marketing, which had become something of a joke for always picking the clunkiest and least imaginative product names. Buddy List? C U C Me? MSN Messenger? No, MSN Messenger Service. I’ll call it Messenger for short.
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