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Hotmail’s war on spam produces head-turning results
I’ve been critical of Hotmail in the past, given that I find Gmail to be consistently superior from both a product and usability standpoint. However, I now have to admit that Hotmail has been working hard to right its ship. One of the critical compo...
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Microsoft taps Valentine’s Day as tool to promote, wait for it, Office Web Apps
Covering how Microsoft covers itself is always a fun game. The company’s ad campaigns tend to have extreme qualities. By this I mean that they are either fantastically good, or perfectly laughable. Today we have the second variety.
We’ll start...
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Windows 8 on ARM: Everything You Need To Know [Windows 8]





Up until late last week Windows 8 on ARM was a complete mystery. We know the product existed, that it would launch at some point in the future, and it would sport the Metro interface Microsoft has been sho...
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Microsoft Store India Hacked, Passwords Leaked [Hacking]





Another day, another technology giant hacked. This time, it's Microsoft's Indian web store that's been attacked by the EvilShadow team. The big problem: Microsoft was storing passwords as plain text. Mo...
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Nokia and China Telecom will reportedly launch the Lumia 800 in China in March
Sources in China are reporting that the Nokia Lumia 800 will be launched in China in March, with the Windows Phone 7 device set to become available on China Telecom’s network, according to WMPowerUser.
The device has been spotted and photoed in Chin...
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New photos of LG’s upcoming Windows Phone handset have leaked
If you have only consumed our coverage of Windows Phone in the past few weeks, you might have come to the conclusion that we live in a strictly Nokia world. Not a bit of that, options abound, as it turns out.
One of those other choices comes from LG, a co...
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The First Ever PC Game, Now Available on Your iPhone [Retro Games]





The first game to ever feature on a PC, co-written by Bill Gates, was Donkey, a driving game in which you had to avoid donkeys. For years, it's been missing from your life, but don't worry: now you can get...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Event Scheduled For Feb 29

Windows aficionado Paul Thurrott has just confirmed that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview event will be held in Barcelona, Spain on February 29, 2012. Coming from Mr. Thurrott, we would be inclined to believe that this is not a rumor.
There have been a l...
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Windows on ARM Will Support Desktop Mode, But Won't Emulate Legacy Apps [Windows 8]





Ever since Microsoft decided Windows 8 will support ARM-based CPUs, many wondered if that meant the traditional desktop experience would be supported as well. And if so, what about all the legacy apps deve...
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Apple Is Now Worth More Than Google and Microsoft Combined [Wtfactoid]





Following iPad 3 introduction reports, Apple is trading at almost $493 per share, a $16 boost. That means it's worth $459.82 billion dollars. That's more than Microsoft and Google combined. More &r...
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Zune’s fate will likely be determined on February 29th
I’ve spilled enough ink over whether or not Zune is dead, barely breathing, or vibrant. I’m tired of the lack of information released into the market. As a media whole (TNW  et al), we’ve written Zune off a dozen times, only to note that...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Coming on February 29 [Windows 8]





Microsoft promised we'd see the Windows 8 Consumer preview before the end of February, and they're holding true to the word. The company has arranged a small event in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress...
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Microsoft employees raised $100.5m for charity in 2011, totalling $946m since 1983
Microsoft has announced that its employee giving campaign helped to raise $100.5 million last year, donating money to more than 18,000 community organisations in the US and around the world.
The figure, which includes Microsoft’s contribution via it...
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Outgoing Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock's Farewell Letter (and Other Stuff)

Earlier today, I had reported that Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock was stepping down.
He is, and the full letter he just released saying so is below.
Bostock did not say, in the missive, who will be Yahoo chairman in his place. Intuit CEO Brad Smith has a f...
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Kinect Star Wars finally awarded a ship date
Kinect Star Wars, one of the very few games that we have covered with regularity at TNW, was awarded a launch date this morning, along with a specially branded Xbox console that matches the theme of the game. Both Star Wars-branded products will be releas...
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These Might Be the First Games Offered in the Windows Store [Video]





The Windows Store will be Microsoft's answer to the Mac App Store. The Verge got an unnamed Microsoft source to squeal about some of the games that will debut in the marketplace. Yes, of course Angry Bird...
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Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion [Video]





There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past f...
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Microsoft Flight set to debut on February 29th
Microsoft has finally taken the wraps of the launch date for its coming flight simulator, dubbed ‘Flight.’ The game should arrive on February 29th, a date that is in line with expectations.
According to the Microsoft update that made the launc...
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Windows 8 Might Scrap The Start Button For Good [Windows]





Even if you don't use Windows often, you probably know to head for the Start button to get things rolling. Not any more, though, because Microsoft might be planning to dump the button in the next Windows r...
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Newly registered Microsoft trademark may hint at longer Google offensive
It’s always fun to watch a tech squabble, and the recent few rounds between Google and Microsoft have delivered mightily. Microsoft, gleeful over the public shellacking that Google is currently enduring over it privacy policies, took some very low-c...
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Amazon's Latest Hire Could Mean More Apps For Kindle [Kindle]





A platform is useless without dedicated developers. Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig ...
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Apple is saying “No” to ARM based MacBooks, focusing on iPads
Just in case you were wondering if Apple would start making lower-priced MacBook airs and other mobile devices based on the ARM chip set, ala Microsoft, the company has no interest according to a report by AppleInsider.
Citi analysts recently met with App...
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This week at Microsoft: Windows Phone 8, ARM, and Google
While the rest of the tech world has had a singular focus this week (Facebook’s filing to go public), Microsoft has been busy stirring up all sorts of narratives. It was a bit of a time getting them all straight, but we think that we have the most i...
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Microsoft signals Zune may not be dead after all
Fresh off the leaked Windows Phone 8 news that seemed to signal the end of Zune as we know it, Microsoft has a new deal out that seems to paint a very different picture.
Let’s go back a few days to the leaked Windows Phone 8 news, and what it had to...
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Amazon nabs Windows Phone’s Developer Experience lead for the Kindle team
Brandon Watson, the leader of the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon. Watson had worked for and left Microsoft in the past, and it isn’t surprising that he left a second time, considering that his new job ...
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I switched to Bing on my iPhone and I kind of liked it
By the time that Microsoft announced its Bing search engine in 2009, Google had long since become a verb and several failed attempts at the search game were under the bridge. But Bing was something different, a visually appealing and more friendly alterna...
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Microsoft’s platform plan: unification. Or, how Windows Phone 8 essentially is Windows 8
A massive dump of information just fell upon the tech world, detailing much of what Windows Phone 8 will eventually contain. This gave Paul Thurrott the green light to drop the knowledge that he had apparently been holding onto for some time. You can read...
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You can snag a Lumia 900 preorder in the US for $25 down
Do you live in the United States? Near a Microsoft store? Do you want a Nokia Lumia 900 as quickly as possible? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, you are in luck: Microsoft is accepting pre-orders. Sadly, if you don’t live near on...
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Windows Phone 8 Details Leak: Bigger and Faster [Rumors]





While Microsoft is still trying to get people to care about Windows Phone, details of the next big version are already nailed down, claims Pocketnow. The site says it's acquired a Microsoft video spilling ...
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Apple grabs another gaming executive with appointment of Xbox Live marketing chief
Apple has named former Microsoft Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as the head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe, becoming the latest games executive to join Apple’s ranks.
MCV reports that Burrowes worked at Microsoft for seven years, w...
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Google responds to Microsoft’s criticism of its privacy policy changes
Earlier today, Microsoft took the overblown controversy around Google’s privacy policy changes (which are mostly harmless) as as an opportunity to criticize Google and offer its own products as alternatives, announcing an ad campaign set to run in n...
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Internet Explorer snagged market share from both Chrome and Firefox in January
Consider us surprised. The January market share numbers are out for web browsers, and Internet Explorer not only failed to leak new market share, it gained over a point, seemingly at the expense of its arch rivals Chrome and Firefox. Safari also declined....
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Microsoft Takes a Shot at Google Privacy Concerns in Its New Ad Campaign [Microsoft]





Microsoft is running a series of ads in major newspapers this week that take advantage of Google's not-what-you'd-call-popular new privacy policy. The boys and girls in Redmond suggest you ditch Google and...
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Microsoft Office 15 Reaches Technical Preview Milestone


Apart from a few screenshots leaked early last year, not much was known about the next major release of Microsoft Office codenamed “Office 15”. However, as of yesterday, Microsoft has announced that "Office 15" has entered into T...
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Google, Microsoft, Facebook and more team up to tackle email spam and phishing
Tech giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo! have combined forces to form a new alliance that aims to eliminate huge amounts of email spam and reduce the impact of phishing attacks on unsuspecting users.
Cnet reports that the alliance will...
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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard

Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future Mark Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
The irony of the pair of legendar...
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Nokia outlines how it plans to solve the retail problem for its Lumia smartphones
A new quote from Nokia’s CEO, Steven Elop, is making the rounds today that outlines how Nokia intends to combat both iOS and Android handsets, and confirms a new strategy that Microsoft is set to employ in the United States. We are of course discuss...
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Steve Jobs kept a letter written to him by Bill Gates by his bedside
During an interview with The Telegraph, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates disclosed that he had written a letter to Steve Jobs as he was dying.
Apparently the letter meant quite a bit to Jobs, as he kept it by his bedside in the final days of his life. Acc...
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Kinect-Powered Windows 8 Laptops Are Definitely in the Works [Laptops]





We've known that Kinect for Windows is coming for a while now, but The Daily got its hands on the first computers that have the technology built directly into them: More »



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Microsoft takes its Windows Phone ad solution pubCenter to 7 new countries
Every new platform has a phase of ‘ramping up,’ during which it slowly expands its reach and, therefore, its potential. Ad platforms nearly always go through this sort of thing, as they slip into new markets, following fresh contracts and doll...
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Microsoft: Windows 8 users can’t employ their own images as Start Screen’s background
According to TechRadar, Windows 8 is not going to be as customizable as we might have thought.
In an entry of various Windows 8 news, it paraphrased Microsoft’s Chris Flores as indicating that users will not be able to use their own images as the ba...
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Microsoft Gave Nokia $250m in The Fourth Quarter of 2011 For Adopting Windows Phone [Factoid]





According to Nokia's financial results, released today, Microsoft paid the Finnish company a cool $250m in the final quarter of 2011 for adopting Windows Phone. That's just the first payment: in total thes...
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The HTC Titan II is dead on arrival
According to BGR, the HTC Titan II, a LTE Windows Phone handset, is set to launch on the AT&T network on March 18th, along with Nokia’s Lumia 900. We feel it safe to say that, given the recent Nokia news, the Titan II is essentially a write off....
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Microsoft, not Apple, holds the key to Smart TV success
For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what I’m most enthralled by is using the Kinect when watching TV. People keep talking about a forthcoming Ap...
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The Next Xbox Could Be Six Times As Powerful [Gaming]





According to IGN, sources close to the next Xbox project have told them the new console will have six times the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360, and will have 20 percent more performance than Nin...
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Microsoft reportedly to kill Microsoft Points, align pricing across its platforms
Microsoft is reportedly in the process of dropping its Microsoft Points virtual currency system, looking to phase it out by the end of the year, sources have indicated to Inside Mobile Apps.
It has been suggested that by the end of 2012, Microsoft will fo...
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Microsoft may dub the Windows 8 beta a ‘Consumer Preview’
Could the age of betas be slowly slipping past? It’s a real possibility, if a move that Microsoft is rumored to be making is true, perhaps reshaping how the public and tech elite alike view the release cycle of software.
For background, Microsoft ha...
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Missing Snake ’97 on your old Nokia? Here’s how to play it on the phone you’ve got now
A muggy classroom filled with the droning sound of a teacher who could care less. Beads of sweat crop up between the shoulder blades of girls wearing spaghetti strap tops.The muted click of my Nokia 5110′s keys pound out a staccato rhythm as I try t...
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Apple, Microsoft Supplier Chief Calls His One Million Employees "Animals" [Blockquote]





Terry Gou is the chairman of Hon Hai Precision, the owners of Foxconn. He's also an insensitive asshat. At the company year-end party at the Taipei Zoo he said: "I have a headache how to manage one million...
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Microsoft Mocks Apple’s iBooks Author policies on Twitter
Microsoft’s lead of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw has taken to Twitter to voice a few opinions about Apple. Specifically, the comments are regarding Apple’s iBooks Author and its poorly worded license agreement.
The EULA makes some in...
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