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If you need ammo, Bing is your search engine

Posted May 8, 2013 - 6:00 am

If comparing Bing and Google on regular search results isn’t enough, try comparing them based on autocomplete suggestions
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Microsoft's $2B loan to Dell comes with strings

Posted May 6, 2013 - 6:52 am

As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said.
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Mount ISO files as virtual CD drives with Microsoft's free utility

Posted May 2, 2013 - 5:10 pm

Need to quickly mount an ISO file in Windows 7 or earlier? Here's a tool from Microsoft
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Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:03 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end
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Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap

Posted April 30, 2013 - 1:56 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters
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Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com

Posted April 30, 2013 - 10:08 am

Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.
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Star Trek's holodeck gets closer to reality

Posted April 29, 2013 - 4:09 pm

Microsoft concept shows living room surrounded by projections escaping the TV screen. Very cool.
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How to set up two-factor authentication for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more

Posted April 25, 2013 - 12:23 pm

No more excuses! Microsoft, Google, and Facebook make it easy to improve your account security with two-factor authentication. Here's how.
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Can Star Trek save Windows 8?

Posted April 23, 2013 - 10:46 am

New notebook aims to appeal to Trek fans - it's a sci-fi computer!
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Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers

Posted April 22, 2013 - 4:28 pm

Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.
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Microsoft faces a loss of relevance

Posted April 22, 2013 - 1:14 pm

The company is struggling to maintain its place in tech in the face of a badly received Windows upgrade.
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Visit famous tech sites via Google Street View Hyperlapse

Posted April 22, 2013 - 11:57 am

Using a fun new tool to take virtual trips to the headquarters and birthplaces of famous technology companies
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Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services

Posted April 17, 2013 - 11:08 am

Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.
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Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services

Posted April 16, 2013 - 2:04 pm

Microsoft is dropping prices for Azure Cloud Services and for Azure virtual machines to match those of Amazon Web Services and implies that it will cut the prices of other Azure offerings as well to match those of AWS.
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Time-lapse shows construction of original Microsoft campus

Posted April 15, 2013 - 1:39 pm

Watch the 1986 building of Microsoft's Redmond campus in this cool time-lapse video.
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Microsoft to Windows 7 users: Uninstall a security update from this week's Patch Tuesday

Posted April 12, 2013 - 2:50 pm

One of the latest security updates is causing fatal system errors, so you should block it
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New services bolster Microsoft Azure as key enterprise cloud management system

Posted April 11, 2013 - 4:14 pm

Microsoft is pushing Azure cloud service to the 5,000 attendees at its management conference this week, encouraging them to take advantage of the system now for specific tasks but to keep in mind that it fits into a full-blown hybrid-cloud framework that may become more attractive to them over time.
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Android and Apple app store woes should sound alarms for BlackBerry and Microsoft

Posted April 10, 2013 - 3:44 pm

Microsoft and BlackBerry have been tripping over themselves to toss cash at developers and beef up their app stores in recent months, trying desperately to gain ground on the behemoth selection of iOS and Android.
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Microsoft pushes yet another Surface RT update meant to fix Wi-Fi woes

Posted April 10, 2013 - 2:43 pm

Microsoft just pushed the third Surface RT update in as many months aiming to correct a limited Wi-Fi connectivity problem. Fingers crossed!
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Fake Twitter followers: One more thing Justin Bieber and Bill Gates have in common

Posted April 10, 2013 - 11:05 am

More followers on Twitter also means a higher percentage of your followers are probably fake accounts
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The Xbox 720 (Durango) rumors keep flowing

Posted April 9, 2013 - 8:30 am

Today we have rumors about the next Xbox's reveal date, pricing, internals, and more!
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The clock is ticking for Windows XP and Office 2003 users

Posted April 8, 2013 - 1:18 pm

Microsoft has begun the countdown to ending support for these old versions of Windows and Office
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How Microsoft lost the future of gesture control

Posted March 30, 2013 - 7:13 am

Microsoft squandered its five-year head start in gesture control technology and is now falling behind. By the time the company gets Kinect for Windows into the consumer market, Leap Motion may already own that market.
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The Weekly Hash - March 29, 2013

Posted March 29, 2013 - 11:29 am

Having some fun at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week featuring astronauts having a quick rendezvous, a Google exec having a midlife crisis and one teenager having a very good week
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Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle

Posted March 28, 2013 - 3:52 pm

Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO.
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