Microsoft must have feared that the annual “airing of the modest success” they bring to CES every year might not be exciting enough to satisfy the many CES attendees who were expecting something major for what may very well be their last keynote (at least for a while). So they brought out the Tweet Chorus. [...]
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Microsoft is today celebrating the further demise of Internet Explorer 6 as it officially falls below 1% market share in the United States for the first time. The US now joins other leading nations Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway where support for the defunct browser had already dropped below this milestone. Source: Alltop [...]
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Continue ReadingTECH CRUNCH – July 15 – Microsoft has “unintentionally” leaked its own social networking platform. The teaser page pictured below was published to the web today on socl.com, which is apparently owned by Microsoft. There are rumors that Microsoft is… Source: Alltop RSS
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Continue ReadingApparently Microsoft is pretty convinced with sales of Mac version of Office but they are not quite sure whether to bring the product in the Mac edition of the App store or not. The app store was launched earlier this month and has already taken thirty percent of the sales cut from Apple. The …
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Continue ReadingApparently Microsoft is pretty convinced with sales of Mac version of Office but they are not quite sure whether to bring the product in the Mac edition of the App store or not. The app store was launched earlier this month and has already taken thirty percent of the sales cut from Apple. The …
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Continue ReadingWhile Windows Phone 7 has many attributes that are worthy of praise, like every new phone line it does have its rough edges. For WP7, that roughest of all appears to be its Bluetooth support. In a long-running, and very long-winded forum discussion started last November, unhappy WP7 users have brought up poor Bluetooth support over [...]
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Continue ReadingAfter getting an overwhelming response on the release on Xbox Kinect, Microsoft is here with another exciting feature for Xbox users. Steve Ballmer announced ‘Avatar Kinect’ at CES 2011 during Microsoft’s press briefing. Steve Ballmer delivers keynote at CES 2011 Avatar Kinect is basically an Xbox 360 feature that allows users to . . …
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From what we can tell from a brief Reuters report, Microsoft is in talks with HBO and Showtime to broadcast and sell a la carte video through the XBox. Microsoft already offers ESPN through XBox Live. For years pundits have been blathering on about the “Trojan horse” that is console gaming. The Playstation 2, arguably, [...]
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Microsoft is joining OpenStack, the open cloud initiative started by Rackspace and NASA, the U.S. federal space agency. This is a big deal for OpenStack, which this week unveiled “Austin,” it’s first official release. It’s also a pivotal moment for the cloud marketplace, aligning the Redmond giant with the open cloud effort. It also puts [...]
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