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Microsoft co-founder to donate fortune to charity

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has pledged to donate the majority of his $13.5 billion fortune to charity. Allen's pledge came just weeks after his former business partner, Bill Gates, and legendary investor Warren Buffet both calle [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft mocks Apple over iPhone 4

Turner makes a bold claim regarding WP7 phones, considering somebody else is designing, engineering, parts-sourcing and assembling the devices. (Hand positioning impacts on reception are documented for other phones. It's a little thi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft debuts Azure private cloud appliance

Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform Appliance (WAPA) is designed to be used across hundreds to thousands of servers, said Microsoft. The appliance consists of the Windows Azure cloud operating system, the SQL Azure cloud-based d [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft plans its next patch Tuesday

IT IS THE SILLY SUMMER SEASON so the tech press is all aflutter about what Microsoft is going to bung into its next patch Tuesday. Just to make it a little different we have decided to write it up in the style of a fashion magazine. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft cuts jobs as part of core shift to cloud computing

As part of a companywide shift toward cloud computing, Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs worldwide with plans to create new cloud-focused positions down the road, according to various reports. TechFlash has reported that Microsoft is [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Hardcore Gamers are Wrong a Lot

Well, that's a big change in tune. Where Microsoft once stood as a bastion for core gamers against the family-friendly atmosphere of Nintendo's casual push, the company has officially joined the dark side...as some would say. Mic [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft’s new invention of bipolar battery technology

The Redmond Company of Microsoft has introduced a new technology for inserting of battery in an electronic item. The technology called as InstaLoad will be carried out by Microsoft. The battery maker Duracell has endorsed the system. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft launches new battery technology

USA: Software giant Microsoft has launched a new battery technology, called "InstaLoad", that can be installed without regard for identifying the negative and positive poles. Microsoft said in a statement that the InstaLoad tec [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Kills Kin Phone

Microsoft said Wednesday it has stopped work on the Kin to focus "exclusively" on Windows Phone 7, the company's new smartphone operating system that's scheduled to ship later this year. The Kin was built and promoted t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft unveils free app upgrades for Win 7 users

Today, Microsoft announced the latest sales benchmark figures for Windows 7. Having hit the 150 million mark, the company claims on its Windows Team Blog that it is the fastest selling OS in history. There's no split between retail. [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Shipping Windows 7 SP1 Betas

Microsoft confirmed Thursday that although it isn't due to release the long-awaited public beta test version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) until the end of July, it has already started shipping pre-release versions of the beta to [...]

Posted On : Jun, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft shows off Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft previewed its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser for the press. The Vole highlighted IE9's support for hardware acceleration, which lets it use the GPU to speed page loading and rendering of graphics effects, as well as [...]

Posted On : Jun, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Kinect To Be Sold At A Loss?

Microsoft [MSFT] recently announced the pricing of Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360, it will retail for $149.99, but now it seems that Microsoft isn’t making any money on the Kinect, as it reportedly cost about $150 to manufacture [...]

Posted On : Jun, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft jumps a new hurdle

"This is a good time to be a games journalist," beamed a fellow journalist. About 1,000 journalists (this reporter included) from all corners of the globe queued for up to two hours to congregate inside Wiltern Theater for the [...]