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Computerworld - Saying That a Spokeswoman "Misunderstood" Questions From Computerworld
Dec 31, 2012Computerworld - Saying that a spokeswoman "misunderstood" questions from Computerworld, Microsoft today backtracked and confirmed that Mac owners who subscribe to the upcoming Office 365 Home Premium will be able to acquire Office for Mac ...
Tags: Microsoft, Macs, Office, Computerworld, Windows
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Microsoft Opened Its Virtual Store and Began Selling Upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99
Dec 26, 2012Microsoft today opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. The upgrade, which must be downloaded and installed via a utility called "Windows 8 Upgrade ...
Tags: Microsoft, virtual store, Windows 8 Pro, Upgrade Assistant
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Microsoft Unwrapped The Next Edition of Its Office Money Maker at a Press Event
Dec 26, 2012Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office, money maker, public preview
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Is Vulnerable to Attack by Exploits That Hackers
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 8 is vulnerable to attack by exploits that hackers have been aiming at PCs for several weeks, Adobe confirmed Friday. Microsoft said it will not patch the bug in Flash Player until what it called "GA," ...
Tags: Windows 8, Adobe, software, company news
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Microsoft Confirmed Yesterday That The New Office 2013 Will Not Run on Older PCs
Dec 21, 2012Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the new Office 2013 will not run on older PCs powered by Windows XP or Vista. "The new Office will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8," a Microsoft spokesperson said Monday in an email reply to questions ...
Tags: Microsoft, new Office 2013, PCs, Windows XP, Vista
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Microsoft's Free Previews of Windows 8 Will Expire Next Month
Dec 21, 2012Computerworld-Microsoft's free previews of Windows 8 will expire next month,giving users about three weeks to upgrade to a paid copy or face hourly restarts. All three Windows 8 previews--the Developer Preview of September 2011,the ...
Tags: Windows 8, free previews, upgrade, new OS
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Microsoft Announced a Record Low Price for The Upcoming Windows 8
Dec 21, 2012On Monday, Microsoft announced a record low price for the upcoming Windows 8, telling customers that they could upgrade their PCs -- even aged machines running Windows XP -- for just $39.99 later this year. But almost as soon as Microsoft ...
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Microsoft Opened Its Virtual Store and Begun Selling Upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99
Dec 19, 2012Microsoft has opened its virtual store and begun selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. The upgrade, which must be downloaded and installed via a utility called “Windows 8 Upgrade ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Windows XP, Windows 8
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Users of Windows 8 Release Preview Can Do a Full Upgrade to The Final Code
Dec 19, 2012Users of Windows 8 Release Preview can do a full upgrade to the final code, something Microsoft said was impossible, an IT consultant said today. Microsoft has been clear that the Windows 8 previews were a dead end. "There is no upgrade ...
Tags: Windows 8, Preview, final code, Microsoft, Bloggers, RTM
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Called Windows 8 "Puzzling" and "Confusing Initially"
Dec 19, 2012Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today called Windows 8 "puzzling" and "confusing initially," but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company ...
Tags: Microsoft, Paul Allen, Windows 8, new OS
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Businesses&Consumers Can Now Download Windows 8 Release Preview From The Microsoft Site
Dec 18, 2012Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
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Microsoft Has Now Updated Flash on Windows 8 to Protect IE10 Users From Attacks
Dec 18, 2012Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
Tags: Bug, flash, highlightedpost, Microsoft, Patches, Windows 8
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Two Best-Known Virtualization Products for The Mac,Parallels Desktop for Mac and Fusion
Aug 30, 2012Computerworld-The two best-known virtualization products for the Mac,Parallels Desktop for Mac and Fusion,have both now produced updates optimized for the upcoming Windows 8. Parallels released Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac today as an ...
Tags: Mac users, virtualization products, Windows 8, Parallels Desktop
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Computerworld - Microsoft Today Announced That It's Wrapped up Windows 8
Aug 1, 2012Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone. "A short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Today Unveiled The Next Version of Office
Jul 16, 2012Computerworld-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the next version of Office as the company launched previews of the suite for consumers and businesses. "This is designed from the get-go for Office as a service,"said Ballmer as he ...
Tags: Microsoft, preview of new Office, service, Home Premium Preview