Microsoft's had a tough year, and it's not even half over. The software giant has retreated from flubs in licensing, the design of its flagship Windows operating system and most recently, innovations it wanted to bake into its new game ...
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Computing is in the midst of a flexible working trial. Over the next couple of months we'll be testing various virtual desktop solutions, IP phones, multi-person video conferencing, unified communications toolkits, and also lots of ...
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Microsoft has launched the Windows 8.1 preview - an early glimpse at the unfinalised update designed to improve the Windows 8 operating system. Further reading The flexible working revolution Microsoft Build 2013: 'We need to do a ...
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Microsoft will be focusing its software efforts on an "outpouring" of more powerful touch screen devices, as it works on "getting the ecosystem to comply with a product line of touch PCs", company CEO Steve Ballmer said today. While the ...
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A version of Microsoft's Age of Empires game franchise will be developed for iPhones and Android devices, the first time an official Microsoft title will be released for the mobile platforms. The initial title will be developed in English ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. The announcement, made during a Wednesday session at the company's BUILD developers conference, was first ...
While important, Google's new policy of scanning apps for malware before making them available on the official Chrome Web Store falls short of providing maximum protection, one expert says. Google launched an automated process for malware ...
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As mobile device shipments overtake those of PCs,cross-platform tool developer Xamarin hopes to get more enterprises to adapt their apps for Android and iOS with the help of its.Net Mobility Scanner. Xamarin's new tool shows how much of a ...
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Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
Rivals Microsoft and Oracle are to team up on their cloud-based platforms as they face growing competition from new agile internet-based tech firms that sell cheaper services. For years Microsoft and Oracle had been competing for the same ...
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Oracle's long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date,with a company executive stating that it will be released"within the next two weeks." In addition,Oracle plans to release an update to its Fusion Middleware ...
IDG News Service-Searching online for something like"diet plans,"or"Caribbean vacation,"or of course"iPhone,"is bound to present a slew of results,including ads.Now,the U.S.Federal Trade Commission wants search engines to display those ads ...
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MICROSOFT has debuted a "re-blended" version of the overhauled Windows 8 operating system released late last year. also previewed new office apps for its Windows Metro interface, but said they would not be released until next year. ...
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THE highly anticipated crowd-funded Ouya Android videogame console yesterday hit the market in the US and almost instantly sold out. Ouya is a gaming console project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter that raised $US8.5 million and ...
THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...