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Apple fans: Microsoft is no longer the enemy

Posted March 27, 2013 - 11:24 am

While I was visiting the Microsoft campus a few weeks ago--in suburban Redmond, just across Lake Washington from my beloved Seattle--I kept thinking of the old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon can go to China."
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Spanish Linux user group files European antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Posted March 26, 2013 - 12:21 pm

Spanish Linux user group Hispalinux on Tuesday filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft over the use of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot feature in Windows 8 PCs.
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Microsoft teasers, tips and tidbits: 5 things to know now

Posted March 25, 2013 - 3:27 pm

Microsoft has been busy, judging from the breadth of the buzz about the company's next ventures.
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SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but a long-term plan

Posted March 22, 2013 - 6:51 pm

CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products.
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Microsoft: Hackers obtained high-profile Xbox Live accounts

Posted March 20, 2013 - 1:55 am

Several high-profile Xbox Live accounts for former and current Microsoft employees were compromised by attackers using social engineering techniques, the company said late Tuesday.
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Nvidia CEO disappointed with Windows RT, prays to Outlook god

Posted March 19, 2013 - 4:54 pm

Add Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang to the list of people disappointed with the debut of Windows RT.
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Microsoft to let Office 365 users replace SharePoint's newsfeed with Yammer's

Posted March 19, 2013 - 3:39 pm

Microsoft offered more details on Tuesday about its plans to integrate SharePoint and Yammer, saying it'll give Office 365 customers the option of replacing SharePoint Online's activity-stream component with Yammer's.
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Microsoft to cooperate with feds in bribery, kickback probe

Posted March 19, 2013 - 3:11 pm

Microsoft today said it would cooperate with federal regulators who are reportedly investigating claims that some of its business partners bribed officials in China, Romania and Italy to close deals.
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Microsoft going after enterprises with Dynamics AX ERP

Posted March 19, 2013 - 2:42 pm

Microsoft hoped recent updates to its Dynamics AX 2012 ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software would help it grab enterprise-level deals that would ordinarily be won by the likes of Oracle and SAP, and to some degree the strategy appears to be clicking.
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Microsoft set to roll out new mobile applications for Dynamics ERP, CRM

Posted March 19, 2013 - 12:28 pm

Microsoft's AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) application will be receiving a set of mobile applications that mix connectivity to back-end systems and processes with a social milieu.
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Microsoft boosts Dynamics CRM with marketing, social media analysis

Posted March 19, 2013 - 12:13 pm

Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM (customer relationship management) software market by linking its own Dynamics CRM application with new capabilities for marketing automation and social media analysis.
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Microsoft nudges Office 365 Home users to the cloud

Posted March 19, 2013 - 11:40 am

Cloud-based subscription service for Office 365 Home Premium offers good value and convenience.
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Microsoft to sunset Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014

Posted March 18, 2013 - 10:36 am

Microsoft's support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will end in the second half of 2014, according to the software maker.
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Microsoft blames Outlook, Hotmail outage on overheated servers, apologizes

Posted March 15, 2013 - 9:10 am

The outage that left Outlook.com and Hotmail users without access to their emails for almost 16 hours this week was due to overheating servers in the data center, Microsoft said.
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Scary flaw makes your USB ports a major security risk

Posted March 13, 2013 - 10:54 am

Microsoft released seven new security bulletins today, with four rated as "critical," but security experts are particularly concerned about a flaw rated as merely "important" that exposes your Windows PCs to major risk.
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Microsoft's latest patches squash potential USB hijack

Posted March 12, 2013 - 3:51 pm

As part of its monthly issue of software patches, Microsoft has fixed a Windows vulnerability that would have allowed someone to subvert a computer's security using only a USB thumb drive and some attack code.
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Why cross-platform gaming is Microsoft's secret weapon

Posted March 12, 2013 - 11:43 am

Now that Windows 8 plays nice with phones and tablets, Microsoft can finally do cross-platform gaming right.
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Samsung, Google, Microsoft play politics

Posted March 11, 2013 - 10:55 am

Tech companies are playing a power grab and increasingly turning to lobbyists for a competitive edge.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday targets Internet Explorer drive-by attacks

Posted March 11, 2013 - 10:08 am

Internet Explorer vulnerabilities warrant notice in this month's set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins and need to be fixed quickly even though the sheer number of patches may seem daunting.
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Who ratted out Microsoft on browser ballot absence?

Posted March 8, 2013 - 4:42 pm

No Microsoft browser rival would comment on, much less confirm, that it reported the omission of the browser ballot to European antitrust regulators -- an omission that led to a $732 million fine this week against Microsoft.
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Kinect app lets you create 3D body avatars

Posted March 8, 2013 - 3:29 pm

Using a player's body as a model, scanner can let you create cool 3D shapes.
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The Weekly Hash - March 8, 2013

Posted March 8, 2013 - 11:11 am

Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars
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Microsoft pulls last lever, discounts Windows 8 to OEMs to spark sales

Posted March 6, 2013 - 1:46 pm

Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today.
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Microsoft fined $731 million by European Commission

Posted March 6, 2013 - 7:55 am

Europe's antitrust chief on Wednesday announced a €561 million (US$731 million) fine on Microsoft for its failure to include a browser choice page in its upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011.
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Dear Microsoft: Enough with the ‘Scroogling’ already

Posted March 5, 2013 - 5:08 pm

Microsoft has been using its lame marketing campaign to attack Google over privacy while doing many of the same things. Time to move on.
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