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Article | 15/11/2012 HP's hardware boss not a fan of Surface, Windows RT
Don't expect HP to have a change of heart about building Windows RT devices anytime soon.
Article | 14/11/2012 Microsoft updates roadmap for Windows Embedded, more releases to come
Microsoft plans to release Windows Embedded Standard 8 next March, as the company aims to bring Windows 8 features to a whole host of devices outside ...
Article | 13/11/2012 AT&T to offer Asus Windows RT tablet with LTE for $499
AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499, the U.S. wireless carrier said o...
Article | 13/11/2012 Windows head Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new OS, is leaving the company, Mi...
Article | 8/11/2012 Microsoft slates first Windows 8, RT patches since launch
Microsoft will issue six security updates next week, including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT.
Article | 8/11/2012 Why isn't Microsoft's answer to Siri built into Windows 8?
Windows 8 is supposed to be Microsoft's majestic OS reset -- a dramatic overhaul designed to usher the Windows platform into the age of mobility. And ...
Article | 6/11/2012 Surface's high profit margin reveals Microsoft's ape-Apple strategy
Microsoft makes more than $300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells, showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival, Apple, analys...
Article | 6/11/2012 Android turns 5, hits 75 percent of the smartphone market
Given Android's ubiquity today, it's almost hard to believe that it has only been around a few years.
Article | 5/11/2012 Ballmer sees quick growth for Windows Phone
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claims Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market.
Article | 2/11/2012 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills
Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the op...
Article | 2/11/2012 Vupen claims 'remote code execution' on Windows 8
Vupen, a security company in the business of selling zero-day vulnerabilities, said Friday that it has found a way to bypass security mechanisms on Wi...
Article | 2/11/2012 Red Hat, Xen, Java, Cloudera prepped for 64-bit ARM
There's been a lot of talk from hardware vendors about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big...
Article | 2/11/2012 What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability?
It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand.
Article | 1/11/2012 ARM, Microsoft collaborating on 64-bit Windows version
ARM is working with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM's 64-bit architecture, an ARM official said this week.
Article | 1/11/2012 Facebook, others back Linaro's Linux-on-ARM project
Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based s...