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Outgoing Intel CEO knocks Windows 8, predicts $200 touch PCs this year

Posted April 17, 2013 - 4:48 pm

Intel's outgoing CEO took a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 Tuesday as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter.
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New Windows 8 Blue leak shows more refinements

Posted April 17, 2013 - 4:19 pm

A new development version of Windows 8.1, aka Windows Blue, was leaked this week on P2P sites.
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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 may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8

Posted April 17, 2013 - 7:03 am

Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system.
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Boot discs explained: An overview of booting your PC from something other than your hard drive

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:28 pm

Jsmithhere asked the Desktops forum about booting from CDs, DVDs, and flash drives.
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The best and easiest ways to search for programs and files in Windows 8

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:22 pm

Randy G. finds Windows 8's search tools a bit confusing. I offer some suggestions.
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Cisco extends Microsoft support in data center portfolio

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:14 pm

Cisco last week extended its data center product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective data center and cloud architectures for joint customers.
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Windows Blue may bring back boot-to-desktop, Start button

Posted April 16, 2013 - 3:56 pm

A pair of reports have Microsoft considering a boot-to-desktop option in Windows Blue, an update to Windows 8 expected this summer.
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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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How to solve Windows 8 crashes in less than a minute

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:54 am

There's an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes.
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Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro 700T review: Ultrabook power, not polish

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:34 am

Samsung's Windows 8 convertible is long on horsepower, but short on build quality
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Dell remains committed to Windows RT

Posted April 15, 2013 - 5:07 pm

Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets.
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Don't blame Windows 8 for PC slowdown; Apple hit, too

Posted April 15, 2013 - 4:13 pm

Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst at NPD Group said today.
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Microsoft smart watch would be 'snipe hunt' distraction from Windows 8

Posted April 15, 2013 - 1:32 pm

Microsoft is reportedly working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, a move one analyst called a "snipe hunt" that would distract it from the critical chore of getting Windows 8 off the ground
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Microsoft urges Windows 7 users to uninstall 'Blue Screen of Death' patch

Posted April 12, 2013 - 4:06 pm

Microsoft today urged Windows 7 users to uninstall a patch shipped earlier this week that has crashed customer's PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots.
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Windows XP's looming retirement won't shake PC business out of sales funk

Posted April 12, 2013 - 2:07 pm

But Microsoft is likely to reap more revenue from the disappearance of XP than will system builders, as many customers will do in-place upgrades to Windows 7 on current hardware.
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The Weekly Hash - April 12, 2013

Posted April 12, 2013 - 10:56 am

Reviewing the week’s top tech stories, today featuring Austin getting hipper, NASA getting Armageddony and T-Mobile getting more desperate
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Microsoft's stock slides after dismal PC shipment reports

Posted April 11, 2013 - 4:26 pm

Microsoft's stock took a beating in trading today after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14% from the year before.
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Surface 'Mini': ARM, Atom or both?

Posted April 11, 2013 - 3:11 pm

Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Windows 8 takes blame for 'brutal' PC sales slide

Posted April 11, 2013 - 7:04 am

Microsoft's Windows 8 took another knock Wednesday as research firm IDC laid much of the blame for the first quarter's historically-horrible PC numbers at the feet of the beleaguered operating system.
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Report: Microsoft plans 7-inch tablet to compete with Apple, Google

Posted April 11, 2013 - 2:32 am

Microsoft is said to be planning a 7-inch version of its Surface tablet to help it compete with similar size devices from Apple and Google.
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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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Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

Posted April 10, 2013 - 2:23 pm

Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.
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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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Prepare now to survive the end of Windows XP

Posted April 10, 2013 - 9:33 am

A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting the archaic Windows XP operating system. Make haste in migrating to another OS.
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