Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows Phone 8 OS for smartphones. ...
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Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company’s most successful products,” said Tami Reller, Microsoft’s chief ...
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Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is less than half the ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Dell on Tuesday said its XPS 10 tablet with Windows RT will start at US$499, matching the price of Microsoft's Surface tablet that became available last week. The XPS 10 has a 10-inch screen, weighs 635 grams, and provides about 8 hours ...
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Dell unveiled its first business-focused Windows 8 tablet this week, which aims to offer style and enable productivity without compromising on security. The Latitude 10 tablet is powered by an Intel “Clover Trail” System on ...
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Closely following a similar announcement for its Windows 8 operating system,Microsoft also said it will release to manufacturers(RTM)its next-generation operating system for the server,Windows Server 2012,next month. The company made both ...
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Microsoft has set the ambitious goal for Windows 8 of 400 million devices in customer hands by next July and more than 100,000 applications stocked in the Windows Store by the end of January, according to a top Microsoft sales exec. Keith ...
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Microsoft has released the customer preview of its latest version of Microsoft Office, which will be cloud-based and work best on Windows 8. Steve Ballmer announced the preview, claiming Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses ...
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Asus’ first batch of Windows 8 tablets won’t come cheap, at least according to a leaked product roadmap full of pricing details. Pricing for Asus’ Vivo Tab RT will start at $599, and the Intel Atom-based Vivo Tab will ...
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Intel are set to make a major mobile push at the Intel Developer Forum next week as the company tries to remain relevant in a market where tablets and smartphones are becoming an alternative to PCs for everyday computing. Intel is at a ...
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Microsoft and Amazon will launch own-brand smartphones mid-2013, including a Windows Phone 8 Surface. iPhone maker Foxconn has apparently received orders from Microsoft and Amazon to build smartphones. According to Digitimes, the handsets ...
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Widespread Windows8 adoption by businesses is years away, primarily because it is so different from Windows 7 that the learning curve for end users will be a nightmare, experts say. Gartner says in a report coming out later this week that ...
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Microsoft will webcast the opening hour of its Windows 8 and Surface RT launch Thursday,the company said today. The keynote,which starts at 11:15 a.m.ET,is the only part of the day-long event in New York that will be publicly ...
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Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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