Microsoft has registered its first strong gains in share in the smartphone operating system market following the launch of Windows Phone 8, with the UK and Italy registering some of the biggest increases in market share. According to ...
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Microsoft has relaxed a Windows 8 certification requirement to allow devices with lower resolutions, a move analysts said signaled Microsoft would soon join the accelerating shift to smaller, less expensive tablets. "The sub-eight-inch ...
Microsoft earlier this week quietly issued its first security update for one of its Windows 8 apps, patching a link-spoofing vulnerability in Mail. Two weeks ago, Microsoft spelled out plans for updating its own "Modern" apps, the flat UI ...
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Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it still lags behind Vista, according to the?March stats?from Net Applications. Windows 8 shipped in October 2012, ...
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Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
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APPLE'S ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while ...
ARE you confident about working on a notebook that stores your documents straight to the cloud? Are you happy to forgo Microsoft and Apple applications you have used for years, such as Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Excel, and Apple's iWorks ...
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Microsoft could rake in more than $1 billion in revenue in the first year after launching Office for Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms, an analyst said today. Gerry Purdy, principal of MobileTrax, did a back-of-the-envelope ...
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The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the operating system much longer than some, including Microsoft, expect. ...
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Microsoft is hoping to build momentum behind its Surface Pro tablet in China by launching a special edition including Office Home & Student 2013 -- but with Windows 8 Standard, rather than Windows 8 Pro. Microsoft's Surface Pro 128 GB ...
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A Web and app designer has stolen a page out of Microsoft's own playbook in urging users to abandon three of the company's four newest browsers because Microsoft is "standing in the way" of progress. Josef Richter, formerly a website ...
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The fourth annual Software Experts Summit, "Smart Data Science: Harnessing Data for Intelligent Decision-Making," will be held on July 17 at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and feature leading experts from around the world. Sponsored by ...
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UBM Tech Game Network's 2013 Game Developers Conference® (GDC), the world's largest and longest-running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, welcomed a record 23,000 industry professionals at ...
Windows 8 last month fell even further behind the historical adoption pace of Windows Vista, Microsoft's 2007 flop, new statistics showed today. The bright spot for Windows 8 in the data from Web analytics company Net Applications: Its ...
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Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. (See our slideshow of how some sites are marking April ...
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