Microsoft’s Windows Store got off to a shaky start when it first opened in beta mode in 2012, with virtual shelves that were… well… virtually empty. When Windows 8 and Windows RT were officially launched toward the end of last October, the store included fewer than 8,000 […]
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Okay, so it’s not exactly a rental system, but Microsoft’s new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for its latest Office iteration are certainly close. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has labeled the sales approach “an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience“, and predicted that the
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Save the date: March 15, 2013 On March 15, 2013, Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows Live Messenger. Talking about the history of messenger can be a bit tricky considering the number of similar products Microsoft offers, including separate enterprise versions. MSN Messenger was
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Over the years we all collect links to sites we consider might be useful or helpful, and I am certainly no exception. These are not sites we would necessarily visit regularly or often but, just as with physical ‘treasures’ we tend to hoard, we know
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The net is abuzz with the news that Microsoft has revamped its Hotmail service and renamed it Outlook.com, and the changes are not merely superficial either. Outlook.com follows the current trend of presenting a minimal interface, or as Microsoft labels it… “clean” and “intuitive”. Skydrive
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While a core group at Redmond have been working tirelessly on Windows 8 another group has been hard at work on Microsoft’s next Office version, Office 2013. Today the customer preview was released to the general public and you can test it out by visiting
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One of the first things a refugee from Windows trying to transition to Linux does is look at the Linux tree structure to try to see “What would this be in Windows?” Well, there is NO one-size-fits-all answer to that question. Indeed, that kind of
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In 2011, Microsoft announced its plans to purchase Skype for $8.5 billion. The acquisition was completed in October of last year. It was considered by many to be Microsoft’s boldest move yet. There are 170 million active Skype users worldwide, and, in 2010, users made
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