On the same day Microsoft loudly proclaims Windows 8 in New York, the aging-but-still-going Windows XP today quietly celebrated its 11th birthday. On Oct. 25, 2001, Microsoft launched Windows XP, unknowingly unleashing its most successful ...
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Now that Microsoft has finally launched its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, it must tackle what may be the most daunting marketing challenge it has ever faced. Once the supreme leader of personal computing, Microsoft is now ...
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Microsoft will shine the spotlight this week on SharePoint's new 2013 version at a conference devoted to the popular collaboration server, but recently acquired Yammer may grab substantial attention. While Microsoft has detailed ...
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An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. As a result, Microsoft, which has been reticent to ...
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Windows users can expect a 15% increase in the cost of licensing key Microsoft products as the software giant raises its prices. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of per-user licensing of several products including ...
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New processors from AMD and Intel will provide the horsepower for next generation desktop applications, that could previously only run on specialist workstations. Integrated chips used to be the poor cousins of dedicated systems. PC ...
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Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app -- bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows 8 for ...
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Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
The PC market in Western Europe is changing, which could transform the way businesses procure PCs. The latest PC market share data from Gartner shows Acer grew 15.3% to become western Europe's second biggest PC supplier. Asus grew 42.3% ...
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Google yesterday made good on a promise from earlier this year and shipped Chrome 23 with the "Do Not Track" privacy feature. In September, Google added a Do Not Track (DNT) option to Chrome's precursor, the open-source Chromium, and ...
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Acer on Thursday announced a low-cost tablet starting at $230 with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android 4.1 OS, code-named Jelly Bean. The Iconia Tab A110 weighs 453 grams and provides up to 7.5 hours of battery life. It joins a growing ...
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Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
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Nokia is planning to offer its Windows Phone 8 handsets through exclusive partnerships with European operators, according to reports. The Financial Times cited a person familiar with the negotiations claiming the Finnish firm was in ...
Windows Phone 8 smartphones, which officially launched Monday and will ship in November on three U.S. carriers, will support 46 of the top 50 most popular smartphone apps with a Data Sense app for more efficient data usage that will first ...
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