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Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
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Microsoft announces massive company-wide reorganization
After weeks of "major restructuring" rumors, Microsoft is confirming a company-wide reorganization on Thursday. In a large staff memo, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer details how the company is aiming for a "One Microsoft," by altering its organization around the "devices and services" vision. The restructuring is massive and touches every corner of Microsoft, shifting its executives into different roles.
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Snowden leak: Microsoft added Outlook.com backdoor for Feds
There are red faces in Redmond after Edward Snowden released a new batch of documents from the NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) division covering Microsoft's involvement in allowing backdoor access to its software to the NSA and others.
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Microsoft and Blackberry cut prices.
Microsoft dropped the price of the 32GB Surface RT to £279 from £400 in the UK, with the 64GB model's price down by the same amount to £359.
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After recent NSA revelations, who in their right mind would trust an always-on X box one?
You close a laptop when you're not using it. Your phone faces the inside of a pocket, a purse, or lies flat on a table. But the Microsoft Kinect, an always-on camera that will come with every new Xbox One game console, gets a perfect view of your living room. It's always listening for voice commands, even when you turn the Xbox off. It can even read your heartbeat with the right software.
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Microsoft took a $900 million hit on Surface RT this quarter
Microsoft just announced earnings for its fiscal Q4 2013, and while the company posted strong results it also revealed some details on how the Surface RT project is costing the business money. Microsoft's results showed a $900 million loss due to Surface RT "inventory adjustments," a charge that comes just a few days after the company officially cut Surface RT prices significantly.
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Microsoft Is Getting Destroyed Today
It's a full-on rout for Microsoft today. The stock is off 11.2% after last night's earnings. It's been steadily breaking down all day.
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How The Wire Teaches Us What Went Wrong at Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer issued a vast formal memo setting out “a far-reaching realignment of the company,” one that would bring together its “silo” divisions to create “serious fun so intense and delightful that [it] will blur the line between reality and fantasy.” Despite the hyperbolized doublespeak, the go-to cliché for a corporate reorg of this type is “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”
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If the iPad was late, ran Windows 8, it would fail too
To say that the $900 million write-down on the Surface RT tablet is a red flag may be putting it too charitably. No product that ran the RT version of Windows 8 and came out about three years after the first tablets appeared would succeed.
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How Microsoft spent a decade asleep on the job
Once upon a time, a young man named Bill had a vision. He saw "a PC on every desk, and every machine running Microsoft software". And lo, it came to pass, and the company Bill co-founded became a gigantic machine for making money, and Bill became the richest man on Earth.
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Microsoft Is Teaching Kinect to Understand Sign Language
Microsoft Research Asia says they have tested ways the Microsoft Kinect device could translate sign language and help individuals who are deaf communicate.
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Why Bill Gates isn't coming back to run Microsoft
Once more. With feeling. Everyone repeat after me: Bill Gates is not going to sweep in like a white knight and take over as Microsoft's CEO.
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Microsoft is doomed, but first it’s going to make a ton of money
Tablet computing is destroying Microsoft's PC business, but it's not the first company brought low by disruptive innovation.
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Ballmer reportedly admits Surface was a flop, says Windows 8 sales are disappointing
Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always exuded unwavering confidence in public interviews, behind closed doors he’s apparently being much more candid. The Verge reports that Microsoft held an in-house town hall event this week where Ballmer admitted to Microsoft employees that the company “built a few more” Surface RT tablets “than we could sell,” which might be an understatement given Microsoft’s recent $900 million charge that some analysts claim translates..
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Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're absolutely hideous
Microsoft's shares took a beating following its gloomy fiscal 2013 earnings report earlier this month, in which it wrote down nearly a billion dollars on its unloved Surface RT fondleslabs. But the software giant isn't out of the woods yet, because new details have emerged that have the full Surface picture looking even worse than was previously thought.
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Office Mobile for Android Phones Preview.
Following in the footsteps of the recently released Office Mobile for iPhone, Microsoft this week released a new version of Office Mobile for Android handsets. Like its predecessor, it appears to be based on the Office Mobile feature set from Windows Phone, and is a free perk for Office 365 home and business subscribers.
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Xbox One is designed to be always-on for 10 years
Inside sources at Microsoft have spoken to Digital Foundry about why the Xbox One hardware is so large, and what the tangible benefits of the larger footprint are for the user. Our information suggests the Xbox One design is based on an ambitious brief, essentially impossible to test in anything resembling real-life conditions, and so the company played it safe, putting unit reliability first.
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Nintendo And Microsoft Are Failing For The Same Reason
Nintendo can't sell the Wii U for the same reason that Microsoft hasn't been able to sell Windows Phones or Windows 8 tablets.
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Bill Gates says Google's internet balloons are 'not going to uplift the poor'
Bill Gates has questioned whether Google's Project Loon, an effort to bring giant internet-giving balloons to less-developed countries, is really that good of an idea. During an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Gates was asked whether he thought bringing internet to parts of the world would help solve problems. "When you're dying of malaria, I suppose you'll look up and see that balloon, and I'm not sure how it'll help you."
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Plane crash kills ex-Microsoft exec
Bill Henningsgaard, 54, was on board his own plane with his 17-year-old son Maxwell when the plane came down near Connecticut's Tweed New Haven airport.
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