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Microsoft announces the 106 finalist teams of its student ‘Imagine Cup’ competition
It’s always pleasant to see major corporations working to engage youths and students, spurring them to learn more, try new things, and of course, excel. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global challenge, today announced the 106 teams, from 75 countr...
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Windows 8 Boots So Fast You Can't Access the BIOS Menu [Windows 8]





Windows 8 boots so blisteringly fast that it theoretically gives you only 200 milliseconds to access the BIOS menu. Fortunately, Microsoft has gone to the trouble of designing a whole new Boot Options menu...
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Confirmed: Microsoft Research’s ‘Flat Datacenter Storage’ tech is king of the data sorting hill
Just the other day, TNW reported that Microsoft had laid claim to a new record in the MinuteSort test, a competition in which a system is used to sort as much data as it can in, you guessed it, one minute. Microsoft stated that it had set a new record, ne...
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Microsoft Office coming to both iOS and Android this November, report claims
According to a story on Boy Genius Report (BGR), Microsoft is preparing to release versions of its popular Office productivity suite for both iOS and Android tablets this November. Its data, gleaned from a ‘reliable source, BGR claims that the versi...
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I have some invites for So.cl

I have some invites for the Mircosoft’s social network So.cl. If you want an invite, post a comment under this blog post, I will see the e-mail and I will send.
My profile: http://www.so.cl/#/@Nikola-Ovcharski
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Steve Ballmer: 500 Million People Will Have Windows 8 by 2013 [Blockquote]





The man at Microsoft's helm, Steve Ballmer, is an optimistic guy. So optimistic, in fact, that he plans for a significant proportion of the world's population to be using Windows 8 by the end of 2013. M...
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Microsoft Quietly Launches Potential Facebook Competitor So.cl
On the heels of the highly anticipated Facebook initial public offering, tech biggie Microsoft made a hush-hush entrance into the social networking arena, unleashing its So.cl experiment from beta-testing.
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The 12 Biggest Missed Opportunities in Tech [Mistakes]





The tech world is full of flops. This ain't them; some of these companies and their products were monstrously successful for a time; others never even had the high expectations and hype required for someth...
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Nokia Lumia 900 ad appears to accidentally out upcoming Windows Phone features
If you head to this post over on PCAdvisor, you’ll notice a big, bright ad for the Nokia Lumia 900 handset. Go ahead and watch the ad, and then replay it. Did you catch it? The most astute Windows Phone fans are probably already pretty excited, base...
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Microsoft opens a second Azure-focused incubator, this time in India
Microsoft has doubled the size of its stable of incubators, making it known that it intends to open a second location in India, giving its original location in Israel a brother.
The incubator, like its sibling, is focused on bringing in startups that are ...
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MSN China said to be heading into ecommerce as part of three-pronged growth strategy
According to a report in the Marbridge Daily, Microsoft’s MSN China group has large plans for its business in the country. As part of a three-prong growth push, the group will pursue an ecommerce strategy of unknown form, look to accelerate its adve...
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Kinect Can Read Your Facial Expressions Now [Kinect]





With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking capabilities to Kine...
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Microsoft Research just exploded the world record for data sorting in a 60 second window
Microsoft Research is claiming victory in the MinuteSort test, posting a score that they say essentially triples the previous title-holder, a 2009 Yahoo team.
MinuteSort is just that, a test of how much data you can sort in a minute. Obviously, this is a ...
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This Windows Phone 8 mockup has our Windows 8 radar buzzing
As Microsoft works to unify its platforms, exactly what we can expect in the future in regards to a device-agnostic user experience from a software perspective remains stubbornly covered in mist. Or, in other words, how close Windows Phone 8′s user ...
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Microsoft releases Kinect for Windows 1.5 with updated developer toolkit, takes project to 4 new countries
Today Microsoft released Kinect for Windows 1.5, an update to the Kinect for Windows platform that contains a set of new tools and upgrades that should spur developer interest and activity in the project. TNW wrote first about the update in March.
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Has Windows Phone overtaken Apple in China? Maybe, but Microsoft won’t confirm it.
Microsoft is keeping quiet on reports suggesting that brisk sales of Windows Phone 7-based devices in China have propelled its overall market share up to seven percent, taking it past rival Apple’s six percent in the process.
CNET and a number of ot...
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Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the Web’s most used browser
Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week.
The firm...
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Meet FUSE Labs, the formerly-obscure Microsoft division that built So.cl
So.cl has been around for some time now, but it only recently ripped off its mask, and barred its teeth to the world. Microsoft is spinning the social app as as search-infused project for students, while some in the press are already calling shenanigans o...
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Microsoft would like you to think that So.cl is for students, but don’t be fooled
During the hush of the weekend after Facebook’s IPO bonanza, and Mark Zuckerberg’s wedding, Microsoft unleashed its entry into the social vertical. The site, called So.cl, is positioned as a research tool for students.
The project comes out o...
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CNBC Tracking Worth Of Major Facebook Shareholders’ Stakes In Real-Time
Now that trading of Facebook stock is under way, CNBC launched a real-time tool that updates the worth of major stake-holders in the social network, based on its stock price.
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Windows 8′s desktop UI changes unveiled
If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending pieces of non-fiction that pack in enough context that by th...
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Windows 8 ARM tablets suffering pricing problems due to Microsoft fees, report claims
According to Digitimes, original equipment manufacturers are having a hard time meeting price targets for tablets that will run Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 RT operating system, which is coded for touch input.
This is no small matter. TNW has w...
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Microsoft Will Give Students a Free Xbox 360 If They Buy a Windows PC [Dealzmodo]





No one will like you if in college if you don't have a laptop. Kidding! But seriously, in college, a laptop is your life. Microsoft wants to help you kiddies out: Just like last year, if you buy a Windows ...
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This week at Microsoft: Windows Phone, Bing, and NUads
Welcome to innovation Friday, in which I change up the structure of this weekly roundup, simply because if I write it the same way again I will certainly go insane.
However, even though the content will be shuffled around in a different format than usual,...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
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Microsoft speaks on privacy following ‘NUad’ concerns
Sometimes the coolest new tech comes with the largest potential risks. Such was the case with the much ballyhooed Kinect ‘NUads’ that hit the wires this week. The idea is neat: use the Kinect to allow people to interact with advertisements, ei...
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UPDATED: Facebook IPO Priced At $38 Per Share
The much-ballyhooed Facebook initial public offering will open trading Friday morning at $38 per share, the top end of the range the social network filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this week, CNBC reported.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Which Sellers In Facebook’s IPO Are Selling More Shares; Which Stood Pat?
Don’t you just love a good infographic? Earlier today, we spotted this interesting visual from The Wall Street Journal highlighting major stakeholders that have changed the number of shares they plan to sell when Facebook’s initial public offering launche...
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Windows Phone has quietly picked up 7% of the Chinese market
We’ve seen precious little from Microsoft in terms of sales and market share figures for its Windows Phone platform lately, and so when the company speaks, we listen. A recent report in the Dutch publication Emerce contains a fact, attributed to Mic...
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Bing’s search API now live on the Windows Azure Marketplace
On the heels of its massive redesign, which caused a sizable stir in the tech vertical, Bing has today announced that its paid search API is now live on the Windows Azure Marketplace. This was an expected move, as Bing announced that it would be shifting ...
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What Google Could Learn from Windows 8 About User Experience [Windows 8]





Windows 8 is built on the idea that the web has great functions, but a lousy user experience—and it uses apps to pull everything into a bright, clean parallel world. FastCo Design's Austin Carr shows...
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Anyone can use the new Bing now. Here’s how to get it
Last week Bing announced a massive product redesign, dramatically changing its interface, and promising a slew of new features that would help it drive growth and differentiate from Google. Today, the new Bing is (mostly) up and available for testing by e...
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Microsoft pokes it head into location-based ads with Windows Phone’s Local Scout
I’m not sure that this is breaking news, but it’s the first that we have heard, or seen of it, so consider this post a PSA at minimum. Location-based information is increasingly useful, and used, making the process of monetizing services that ...
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Windows Phone may have crossed the 12 million unit mark
Over a year ago, TNW noted a correlation between the number of active Windows Phone Facebook users and the number of Windows Phone handsets that had been sold. After some calculation, we discerned that there was a ratio of 6.756 handsets sold per active u...
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New Windows Computers Will Get a $15 Upgrade to Windows 8 [Windows 8]





With Ivy Bridge out, there's a ton of great new desktops, ultrabooks, and gaming rigs coming out over the next few months. But they're all under the shadow of the other major release, Windows 8. Good news ...
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Upcoming Microsoft deal: Buy a Windows 7 PC, upgrade to Windows 8 for a mere $15
Microsoft, in a bid to keep Windows 7 PC sales strong through to the end of the operating system’s lifecycle, has a plan: offer people a dead cheap Windows 8 upgrade , thus making the option of waiting for the upcoming operating system to drop a poo...
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Samsung’s Omnia M priced at €294.99, will compete with Nokia’s Lumia 610
The big rush down the price ladder continues for Windows Phone handsets, with Samsung now entering the fray. Say hello to the Omnia M, which will cost a mere €294.99 ($380) sans contract. Given that mobile contracts tend to knock hundreds of dollars out o...
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Microsoft Research + Kinect + 3D = MirageTable
One of the best parts of the weekend is that the news generally calms, and a new sort of story emerges: the fun note. Today, Microsoft Research and some crazy lab tech fused with off the self hardware is our game.
Now, as any astute reader of TNW Microsof...
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Feature check: What to expect in Windows Phone Tango
The inimitable WPCentral publication has done something quite interesting. Snagging a Windows Phone Tango build, meant for Telcel in Mexico, they put it through the paces to determine what we can expect when the update finally lands.
Now, before we jump i...
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Guess what happens when you ask the Nokia Lumia what the best smartphone ever is

Earlier today we ran a story – as did many other publications – about Apple’s iPhone 4S-only service Siri recommending people to buy the Nokia Lumia 900 when asking what the ‘best smartphone ever’ is. OMG, right?
Siri bases ...
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In India, Microsoft to avoid local OEMs, citing the need for an Apple-like experience
Local original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in India are not to receive Windows Phone’s business, according to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line. The head of Microsoft India, its chairman Bhaskar Pramanik, had this to say on OEMs that are...
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Interestingly, the more up to date a user’s version of Internet Explorer is, the higher their CTR
In an odd twist, the more up to date a user’s version of Internet Explorer is that they run, the more likely that they are to click on an advertisement. The ratio is nearly linear, with each new version of the popular software bringing along with it...
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This week at Microsoft: Bing, Windows Phone, and a horse
Welcome to Friday, gents and ladies. It’s that lovely day of the week when the mind turns to martinis and other such delights. I hope you have worked sufficiently during the week to warrant a real break.
Now, as always, this post is our weekly round...
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Intel: Windows 8 on ARM Is an Uphill Fight [Intel]





Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult. More »...
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Xbox 360 is more popular for video viewing than the iPad, study shows
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is now the leading non-PC digital viewing device, a recent report shows. Produced by the video technology company FreeWheel, it focuses on consumer interaction with online video across multiple devices in the US.
According to it...
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Bing Redesign Includes Social Sidebar Column With More Facebook Integration
Microsoft introduced an update to its Bing search engine today that includes a sidebar column containing related information from users’ Facebook friends.
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Tune into Bing’s event that it claims will ‘change the future of search’
Our very own Alex Wilhelm is in San Francisco today for Microsoft’s Bing event and will be bringing you all of the hot news so we can see if the company is indeed changing the future of search as it suggests.
Tune in below and keep an eye out for fu...
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Bing launches massive redesign, working with data from Quora, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+ and more
Today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Bing launched a massive redesign of its services, bringing in a grip of partners to form a new threat to Google’s crown as the search king.
Bing has always been the second city of search. An engi...
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Is Microsoft Planning to Limit Your Browser Choice on Windows 8 Tablets? [Microsoft]





If you're used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8. More&nb...
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Box building a Windows 8 Metro app
File this in the ‘not that surprising, but neat’ category: Box is building a Windows 8 Metro app. Yes, yes, please collect your jaw.
The application, news of which first came from Time, is apparently in beta, with crashes and other failings to...
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