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A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming
Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate and synchs with iPhones, Android phones and Windows Phones, Forbes has learned.
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Dead and buried: Microsoft's holy war on open-source software
Q&A: Years ago, Microsoft's CEO described open source as a cancer. Times have changed. Just ask 22-year Redmond veteran and open-source proponent Mark Hill.
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Windows 7 rules the desktop
XP is slowly dying, Windows 8 is slowly gaining, but the almost five-year-old Windows 7 was the real desktop operating system winner in May as it went over the 50 percent mark for the first time.
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The Xbox One is faster without Kinect
Microsoft has previously tweaked the Xbox One to boost its overall graphics performance, but a new software change for the console pushes things even further. Xbox One developer units are receiving an update to increase GPU bandwidth by up to 10 percent. While the changes won’t be instantly felt during gameplay, game developers can now modify their titles to take advantage of system resources that were previously reserved for Kinect.
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Who Made That Autocorrect?
“How fast will new Word 6.0 fix typos? How fast can you make them?” asked an advertisement in a computer magazine from October 1993. The newest version of Microsoft’s word processor came with a brand-new feature called AutoCorrect. Type in “SHip teh cartons friday,” and the program would correct your text to “Ship the cartons Friday.”
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Xbox One Getting Full Halo Collection
On November 11th, 343 Industries will be releasing the Master Chief Collection onto the Xbox One. The Master Chief collection will cost $59.99 and includes the first four Halo games: Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4. The games included in the bundle will be almost exactly the same as they were when …
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At E3 Gaming Convention, Microsoft Shifts Emphasis of Xbox One Console to Games
The latest video game consoles can play Internet radio, Netflix movies and YouTube video clips. But Sony and Microsoft, gearing up for a blistering battle in retail stores this holiday season, are reassuring consumers that their consoles are very much about games, too.
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Give us the Windows 8 Start menu and no one will get hurt
It's looking like Microsoft won't be bringing back the Start menu until 2015. Way to put the customer first, Microsoft!
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Ex-Microsoft employee who leaked company secrets sentenced to three months in prison
Remember that time Microsoft rifled through someone's Hotmail account and then claimed it was totally OK? The incident -- and Microsoft's response - was disturbing enough that it was easy to forget why the company accessed someone's account in the first place. The reason: That inbox belonged to a French blogger who had posted Windows 8 screenshots.
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Aaron Paul is accidentally turning on Xbox consoles around the world
Owners of Xbox One consoles have taken to social media to complain that Aaron Paul, the actor best known for his role as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, is turning on their games console without their permission. Aaron Paul stars in a new commercial promoting the Xbox One, which includes him saying the phrase "Xbox On."
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Microsoft Office Online vs. Apple iWork for iCloud vs. Google Drive
Online word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation apps can be surprisingly useful, or surprisingly lame, and not even Microsoft aces Office document compatibility
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Microsoft has learned from it's Mistakes, but is it too late?
Just take a look at Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference this year and compare it to that of last year. You will notice the shift in focus, telling us that Microsoft is learning from it’s decisions in poor taste that ultimately resulted in the Xbox One lagging behind in sales.
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Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
Doug Burger called it Project Catapult. Burger works inside Microsoft Research–the group where the tech giant explores blue-sky ideas–and in November 2012, he pitched a radical new concept to Qi Lu, the man who oversees Microsoft’s Bing web search engine. He wanted to completely change the machines that make Bing run, arming them with a new kind of computer processor.
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A. Sauvage & Microsoft Have Created The World’s First Pants That Can Charge Your Phone
Very few things can kill a good mood like seeing your phone reach that horrid 5% battery life mark while you're out roaming the streets, and now that could be a thing of the past.
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Microsoft's Android patents will face challenges
Now that the Chinese government has revealed the patents within Microsoft's Android patent portfolio, Microsoft may soon be facing challenges from vendors over its Android patent licensing agreements.
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Updated Android-based Nokia X phones from Microsoft due next week?
It's looking increasingly likely that Microsoft plans to launch its second-generation Android-based Nokia X phones early next week.
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Surface Pro 3 comes out today -- and you may actually want to pick this one up
Microsoft has called every device in its Surface line “the tablet that can replace your laptop.” But with the Surface Pro 3, it’s finally right. Microsoft today released the Surface Pro 3, its latest tablet-laptop hybrid, in the U.S and Canada. It’s available through Microsoft’s online store as well as via retail partners like Best Buy, Staples, and Tiger Direct.
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Microsoft: NSA security fallout 'getting worse' ... 'not blowing over'
Microsoft's top lawyer says the fallout of the NSA spying scandal is "getting worse," and carries grim implications for US tech companies. In a speech at the GigaOm Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith warned attendees that unless the US political establishment figures out how to rein in its spy agencies, there could be heavy repercussions for tech companies
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CEM Business Solutions | Know more about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012-R3
Bringing everyone’s wait to halt was the R3 launch event. A newest version, though hyped after by many, only few know what Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012-R3 is! Packed with exciting functionality for warehouse automation and advanced transportation management, this “new born” in the Microsoft family has striking features that you ought to know!
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Busted: Microsoft-hired agency paying bloggers to write pro-IE posts
SocialChorus, an "advocate marketing" firm working on behalf of Microsoft, has been offering to pay bloggers for promoting Internet Explorer. The campaign was exposed after popular blogger and Twitter designer Paul Stamatiou, who also contributes to TechCrunch as a guest writer, was approached by the company to write a paid piece.
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