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Holiday Goal: Microsoft looks to sell 16M tablets!

Microsoft’s biggest retail goals for 2014 is to sell 16M Windows Tablets.According to alleged Microsoft strategy documents obtained by Paul Thurrott, editor of the Windows SuperSite.  The “Softies” are going to increase the retail spending according to Thurrott’s report.Last fiscal year

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Microsoft clarifies what Xbox One and Kinect do with your stored data

Ever since Microsoft revealed a Kinect 2.0 is included with each Xbox One sold, rumors have flown over what the company can and/or will do with the information its sensors pick up. The software giant’s overarching privacy statement makes its case that

Posted in By Mehedi, Kinect, Microsoft, News, Xbox One

Windows 8 grows in market share and Microsoft intends to invest $405 million to keep it up

We recently reported that Windows Phone is the world’s fastest growing smartphone operating system with a 275% percent growth rate, but that might not be Microsoft’s only reason to smile. According to NetMarketShare, Windows 8 now owns 9.25% of the desktop market. Breaking that number down

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Ethernet supports arrives for Surface RT and Surface 2 – requires some effort to get working

There used to be the days of woe when new buyers brought home their newly purchased Surface RT device, only to discover that they would never be able to hook it up to a wired network. Then, a few days ago, word

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Microsoft gives Bing a Halloween makeover with references to famous horror movies

Microsoft has launched a new Bing homepage to celebrate the Halloween festive season. Taking full advantage of the real estate, the company has produced an interactive scene inside a haunted house. Visitors are exposed to freakish sound affects that create a spooky atmosphere as you search

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Microsoft Research works on interpreting sign language with Kinect

Microsoft is taking its Kinect technology to a whole new level. We’ve already looked at how the company is attempting to integrate its product into retail, but Microsoft Research is also tapping into sign language. Numerous videos have been released showing off how

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Microsoft details new developer driven features in App Studio Beta

Microsoft unleashed the Windows Phone App Studio Beta back in August, accumulating a whopping 30,000 projects in just 48 hours. Now an article over on the Windows Phone Develop Blog details some developer driven changes that have been implemented into the app.

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Deadmau5 teases software project with Microsoft

Microsoft and Deadmau5 have a pretty cozy relationship. The two have teamed up plenty times in the past to promote various products and services. Recently, Deadmau5 helped kicked off the second-generation of Surface in his homeland of Canada. Earlier this summer, Deadmau5

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Live the Xbox One experience with Microsoft’s latest video

We have seen bits and pieces of the dashboard for Microsoft’s latest entertainment console, Xbox One, but we haven’t seen a full immersive tour of it all. With Xbox One being released in less than a month, it definitely is a bit of

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10 Years of Microsoft OneNote: "One place for all of your notes."

We are approaching the 10th birthday of Microsoft’s information gathering application, OneNote. The first edition of OneNote to be released was OneNote 2003 in November of the same year. If you are like me, you may not have been introduced to Microsoft’s info application

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