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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review: Impressive hybrid tablet, but keyboard should be bundled
If you need a Windows 8.1 computer that's flexible enough to be a tablet, a laptop (if you add the optional keyboard) and even (if you add the optional docking station) a desktop PC, then the Surface Pro 3 manages the trade-offs as well as anything on the market.
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Goodbye MSN Messenger, the once popular instant message client is shutting down on October 31st
It's the end of an era for one of Microsoft's most popular instant messaging software products. Microsoft started to phase out MSN Messenger (also known as Windows Live Messenger) globally in April 2013 and it will be completely shut down on October 31st. MSN Messenger is only available in mainland China until...
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UC browser beta updated to v4.0 on windows phone | i Gadgets World | innovative Gadgets World
UC browser beta updated to v4.0 on windows phone. The most recent update to the private beta of UC browser for windows phone jumps it to v4.0 . This version
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China gives Microsoft 20 days to provide explanation in anti-trust probe
A Chinese anti-trust regulator said on Monday it has given Microsoft Corp 20 days to reply to queries on the compatibility of its Windows operating system and Office
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Out in the Open: Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft
The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it’s also the birthplace of one of the latest attempts to subvert the NSA’s mass surveillance program. When whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that full extent of the NSA’s activities last year, members of…
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Judge mulls contempt charges in Microsoft’s e-mail privacy fight with US
A federal judge is mulling whether to hold Microsoft in contempt of court for defying orders to give the US government e-mails stored on an overseas server. The case is the nation's first testing the Obama administration's position that any company with operations in the US must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas. The US believes the e-mail on a Microsoft server in Dublin, Ireland is associated with narcotics trafficking.
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Microsoft Will Mass-Produce Its Big-Ass Touchscreens
Remember the Big-Ass Table? Microsoft isn’t done making huge slabs of touch-capable screen, it turns out. The company’s Stephen Elop announced this week that Microsoft intends to “mass-produce” its Perceptive Pixel (PPI) displays, which are touch-enabled and can stretch to up to 82 inches in size.
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So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class...
In 2008, shortly after Bill Gates stepped down from his executive role at Microsoft, he often awoke in his 66,000-square-foot home on the eastern bank of Lake Washington and walked downstairs to his private gym in a baggy T-shirt, shorts, sneakers and black socks yanked up to the midcalf. Then, during an hour on the treadmill, Gates, a self-described nerd, would pass the time by watching DVDs from the Teaching Company’s “Great Courses” series.
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Steve Ballmer wrote Windows' first Ctrl-Alt-Delete message
Whether Microsoft likes it or not, Windows' blue screen messages are iconic -- they're universal signs that something really bad has happened to your software. But who wrote the original Ctrl-Alt-Delete message that would grace the screens of sick PCs worldwide? None other than Steve Ballmer, according to company veteran Raymond Chen.
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Microsoft nears $2B deal for 'Minecraft': WSJ
Microsoft Corp is in serious discussions to buy Mojang AB, the Swedish company behind the popular "Minecraft" video game, The Wall Street Journal said.
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Microsoft Said Near $2 Billion Deal for Minecraft Maker
Microsoft Corp., maker of the Xbox video-game console, is in discussions to acquire Mojang AB, the software company behind the popular game Minecraft, for more than $2 billion, three people with knowledge of the talks said.
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Minecraft Creator Sets Aside Microsoft Criticisms to Pursue Deal
By negotiating to sell his gaming startup to Microsoft Corp., Minecraft creator Markus Persson is growing closer to a company he once publicly lambasted -- and has a chance of becoming a billionaire at the age of 35.
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Microsoft is killing the Nokia and Windows Phone brands
Microsoft is planning to stop using the Nokia and Windows Phone brands this holiday season in its marketing materials. Microsoft is also planning not to use the Windows Phone logo in promotions and commercials, instead it will be replaced with just Windows.
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Gates Foundation commits $50 million to fight Ebola in West Africa
With Ebola's spread reaching a crisis stage in West Africa, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is committing $50 million to support the emergency response.
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Microsoft is testing playing Xbox games in your browser
Microsoft is a technology company and when they see a problem that they think they can solve, they put their best and brightest minds to a solution. So when the question arises as to why cloud-based gaming hasn’t taken off and the answer is lag (to put it simply), the company sees this as a time to get to work.
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New Windows 9 screenshots leak, show notifications center, more
A bunch of new screenshots of Windows 9 have just leaked out, and they show off some interesting features that will probably be in Redmond's upcoming OS.
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Microsoft Paid The NFL $400 Million To Use Its Tablets, But Announcers Are Calling Them iPads
Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with one of the major components being that the Microsoft Surface would become "the official tablet of the NFL" with coaches and players using the Surface on the sidelines during games.
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Here's your first look at the New Windows 9 Interface
Windows is ramping up for the release of their all new Windows 9 operating system. Here's a sneak peek.
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Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder donating $9 million for Ebola Battle
A familiar source stated, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Paul Allen's charitable foundation have announced that he is going to donate $9 million
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Hey Microsoft, Acquiring A Hit Game Is Stupid
Buying a game company is like buying an aging baseball player. You’ll need a miracle to get another hit. And while they might have plenty of fans, they probably aren’t making a lot of new ones. Mojang hit a grand slam home run with Minecraft, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft should pay $2.5 billion for it, as it’s reportedly going to announce this week.
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