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Will End Users Buy Into the New SharePoint 2013 Interface?
So what do we think of the new Metro (oops ... we can’t use that word anymore, can we? It is now "Windows 8 style UI") stylings in SharePoint 2013 ? Like it? Love it? I’ll be honest, I’m not sure.
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Windows 8 Finished, on the Road to Launch
Windows 8 has been declared RTM, or released to manufacturing, by Microsoft, sending it to the hundreds of hardware partners for installation and testing on their PCs, notebooks and tablets. But what does the road to launch look like for businesses and developers? Job Done...
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Let Battle Commence, Tablet and Smartphone Giants to Collide This Fall
With a likely September launch for the next iPhone and perhaps a mini iPad, Windows 8 launching with an armada of hardware in October, and Amazon to unveil a Kindle Fire 2 for the holidays, get ready for the most intense consumer battle in recent years.
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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8 Accessories, Offers Style and Portability
Remember when slab-like keyboards just kept getting bigger and bigger, with evermore features and buttons? No longer, as Microsoft slims things down for the Windows 8 portable and tablet generation.
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Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Adds New Ad Format and Extensions
Microsoft has added a new paid search ads format in Bing, and the new style looks quite similar to Google ads that run along the upper right hand side of search engine result pages.
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Windows 8 Developer Push Starts With Build Event in October
After the, hopefully successful, launch of Windows 8 and a mass of new hardware, Microsoft will start in earnest its push for Windows 8 developers in late October with a Build 2.0 event in Redmond.
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Microsoft First Ever Quarterly Loss Signals End of an Era
The tech industry has been busy reporting earning this week. As usual, there were winners and losers, but the biggest news is Microsoft’s first quarterly loss since the company went public almost three decades ago.
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Microsoft Office 2013: Customers, Cloud Leading the Change
Last week I was invited to a press event in San Francisco, where Steve Ballmer was going to share some exciting news.
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Windows 8 Confirmed for October Release
Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will release to manufacturing this August, with a general launch of the OS and new hardware happening at the end of October.
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Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Priced at $39.99 for Existing Users
In an effort to get the whole computing world over to its latest operating system, Microsoft will be charging just $39.99 for current Windows 7 or XP users to upgrade via digital means. Anyone wanting a quaint boxed copy will have to pay $69.99.
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Windows 8's Dedicated Photo App Gets Updated
Your photographs may well be all over Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr and on Twitter. But Microsoft still wants to be the center of your digital world, as it shows off an improved app for Windows 8 that will help manage all those snaps and images.
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Microsoft's Surface Tablet: Battery, Price and Connectivity Details Emerge
Microsoft said plenty about its new range of Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets at this week's event, but left out a lot of detail, essential for informed buying decisions. That information is slowly starting to come to light, and might not help the company's case.
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Questions Over Microsoft's New Surface Fleet of Tablets
Microsoft shocked a lot of people, including its partners, with the reveal of the new Surface tablets.
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Revealed: Microsoft Back in the Hardware Game With New Surface Tablets
After the brief announcement last week, gossip has reached a mild fever in advance of Microsoft's hushed press event, taking place at Milk Studios. With partners and product names flying about, what will the company really reveal? The Magical Mystery Tour The Internet has been buzzing since Friday and Microsoft's
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