Microsoft Patents Automatic OS Shutdown

Microsoft has successfully patented a procedure for shutting down Windows. Microsoft - Operating system - Microsoft Windows - Microsoft Corporation - Companies

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Microsoft Quincy datacenter faces Ecology hearing

Microsoft’s plans to expand its huge datacenter in Quincy will undergo a public hearing, giving people a chance to weigh in on the addition of 13 diesel backup generators planned for the complex.

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Microsoft Quincy datacenter faces Ecology hearing

Microsoft Uses Bing Home Page to Push IE8

Microsoft on Thursday started featuring a small banner ad on the Bing home page for Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft - Bing - Google - Search - Browsers

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Microsoft Arc Touch

Microsoft’s new Arc Touch Mouse features a travel-friendly design and some clever technical additions to its touch-sensitive scroll tab. Neither of those features makes it better than a full-size desktop mouse, but the Arc Touch Mouse is different enough in its form and in some of its functions that it should appeal to people looking to make a statement with their technology.

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Microsoft co-founder sues over patents

Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple and Google, plus nine other companies, for patent infringement.

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Microsoft co-founder sues over patents

Microsoft finds its innovation mojo

Microsoft is a bit like Tiger Woods at the moment–industry darling that became too dominant, then had a fall accompanied by a thick layer of schadenfreude, and now is trying a comeback.

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Microsoft launches Bing search app for Android

Bing for Android is Microsoft’s most significant Android contribution yet. While it isn’t quite up to par with the iPhone version, it’s still a smooth operator.

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Microsoft launches Bing search app for Android

Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturers

Microsoft today announced that its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to hardware manufacturing partners.

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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Has Been Sent to Smartphone Manufacturers

Microsoft has essentially finished work on Windows Phone 7, and this new operating system has been released to the companies that will use it in smartphones. The first devices running it will be released later this year.

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Microsoft says Windows still relevant in age of virtualisation

Microsoft execs rubbish VMware CEO comments Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the centre of innovation in the IT world. Maritz didn’t actually predict that operating systems are doomed, but he did argue in his VMworld keynote that the role of operating systems …

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