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Linux is the quiet revolution that will leave Microsoft eating dust
Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, has scored a major publicity coup in the revelation that it is used on 94% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.
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The Fabulous Life Of Bill Gates, The Richest Man In The World
Gates has lived a life full of adventure and innovation.
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Microsoft Smartband Coming in October with 11 Sensors, Open APIs, and Cross-platform Compatibility
A trusted source has reached out to us with more details of Microsoft's rumored smartwatch.
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Windows 8.x usage declines
Net Applications has found that Windows 8.x actually lost user share in June 2014, while Windows 7 has really been the operating system to gain from XP's end of support.
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The Strange Story Of How Microsoft Seized A Big Chunk Of The Internet, Then Broke It
There's a group of people at Microsoft who are like internet superheroes on a mission to protect the world from evil hackers. And this week, that group convinced a judge to turn over a chunk of the internet to their control, and then messed up that control, bringing websites down for "millions" of people.
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Xbox One's Kinect sensor coming to Windows on July 15th
Microsoft's plan to bundle Kinect with the Xbox One may not have been to everyone's taste, but that's not stopping it from expanding sales of the motion-sensing peripheral. In fact, you'll only have to wait just over a week to get your hands on the second generation Kinect for Windows.
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A chat with Microsoft's CEO: why Apple and Google haven't won yet
Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft for five months, and he's made it clear he intends to change and re-focus the software behemoth as it navigates the next generation of technological change....
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CrossOver 13.2: Installing Windows program on Linux just got easier
CodeWeavers latest CrossOver has many improvements, one of which is that it makes it easier than ever to install Windows applications on Linux.
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Windows 9 May Be Revealed Next Week
Currently, there's a rumor started by well-known Russian Windows leaker WZor that Microsoft may actually start talking about Windows 9 "Threshold" during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014 next week. WZor also believes that Microsoft will use this window to introduce Windows 8.1 Update 2, which will supposedly be released by mid-August.
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Bill Gates's Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker
In 1969, John Brooks published “Business Adventures,” his collection of New Yorker business stories—“Twelve classic tales from the worlds of Wall Street and the modern American corporation.” Now, forty-five years later, Bill Gates, in the Wall Street Journal, is calling it his “favorite business book.”
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Microsoft exec admits new reality: Market share no longer 90% — it's 14%
For many years, Microsoft was viewed as the dominant PC operating system vendor, with more than 90 percent market share on desktops and notebooks. But the rise of computing on tablets and smartphones has turned the PC market into one slice of a much larger pie, and Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner this morning told the company’s partners that they have to look at the world differently.
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US government says online storage isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment
A couple months ago, a New York judge ruled that US search warrants applied to digital information even if they were stored overseas. The decision came about as part of an effort to dig up a Microsoft user's account information stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland.
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Microsoft's new 'Adam' AI trounces Google ... and beats HUMANS
The battle for neural-network dominance has heated up as Microsoft has developed a cutting-edge image-recognition system that has trounced a system from Google. The company revealed "Project Adam" on Monday and claimed that the system is fifty times faster and roughly twice as accurate as Google's own DistBelief system.
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Ax Falls at Microsoft as Company Looks to Cut up to 18,000 Jobs
Will this jumpstart the transformation?
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Microsoft confirms plans to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year
A majority of the job cuts will come from the recently acquired Nokia devices and services unit.
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Microsoft To Shut Down Xbox Entertainment Studios
This morning’s announcement by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella of one of the largest layoffs in tech history, a plan to cut 18,000 jobs, triggered a whirlwind of speculation about the future of the fledgling Xbox Entertainment Studios. In a memo, Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division and Microsoft Studios, just confirmed that the company will close the Entertainment Studios in the coming months.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella needs an editor
Satya Nadella’s latest message to the troops—and to the world—is disquieting. It lacks focus, specifics, and, if not soon sharpened, his words will worry employees, developers, customers, and even shareholders.
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Xbox One sales double after removal of Kinect, but the PS4 is still miles ahead
In a rather unsurprising case of “we told you so,” Microsoft says Xbox One sales have doubled since the arrival of the $400 Kinect-free Xbox One in June. The press release is infuriatingly slim on other important details, though, such as how many Xbox One consoles Microsoft actually sold, and — more importantly — how the Xbox One is faring in comparison to the PS4.
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Microsoft readies $199 Windows 8 laptop and $99 tablet to combat Chrome OS and Android: Will this plan work?
It appears Microsoft has finally admitted to itself that the Google Chromebook laptops are a real threat that could damage the Windows business more than how it is already damaged due to Windows 8. In light of Google's onslaught on Microsoft's core business, the company is hoping to keep ahead by having its partners release cheap Windows-based devices.
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Citing lack of interest, Lenovo pulls 8-inch Windows tablets from the US
Lenovo announced today that it will no longer sell its 8-inch Windows tablets in the US, less than a year after introducing both the lower-end Miix 2 8 and the high-end ThinkPad Tablet 8. IT World reports that Lenovo is stopping sales because of a general lack of interest but that the ThinkPad 8 in particular will continue to be sold in international markets where it has managed to gain more traction.
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