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MICROSOFT’S UPDATED SURFACE BOOK IS A BIG, POWERFUL BRUTE OF A LAPTOP
ear ago, Microsoft set out to prove to the world that a Windows laptop could hang with the best MacBooks from Apple. The Surface Book, with its head-turning design, wild hinge technology, and detachable screen was just...
- Posted November 14, 2016
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Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM Leaders on Challenges for AI and Their AI Partnership
Late last month, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft announced that they will create a non-profit organization called Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. At the White House Frontiers Conference held at Carnegie Mellon University today, thought leaders from...
- Posted October 4, 2016
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update
It’s a tradition. Another Windows release, another non-reviewer’s review by yours truly. (I call my reviews “non-reviewer” ones because unlike some of my colleagues, I don’t do many and definitely don’t do them as thoroughly, with all...
- Posted July 4, 2016
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Microsoft Lumia 950 Review
Are you looking at me? Oh, you are. And now you’re winking at me. Hmm, this is getting a little awkward. I mean, I like you Windows 10 – just not that way. And, after using the...
- Posted February 11, 2016
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Microsoft’s cloud on pace to grow into the $20 billion business of Satya Nadella’s dreams
Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue grew 88 percent over the past quarter to more than $1.7 billion, setting the stage for a once minor revenue stream to become a major driving force for the company’s bottom line. It’s an...
- Posted July 22, 2015
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6 reasons why Microsoft alumni often struggle in the startup world
Why do Microsoft alumni struggle at startups? This clearly isn’t true of everyone who walks through the halls of Microsoft, but it holds true for long-time employees of many enterprise organizations who venture into the startup world....
- Posted July 22, 2015
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Oculus partners with Microsoft to stream Xbox One games to Rift
Xbox games will appear on a virtual screen in a simulated theater on the Oculus Rift Oculus is partnering with Microsoft to bring more games to its new Rift virtual reality headset when it launches in early 2016. Xbox One...
- Posted June 14, 2015
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Microsoft gives $10M to University of Washington for new computer science building
An early conceptual drawing of the new UW computer science building interior by LMN Architects. The final building design will incorporate an undergraduate commons (pictured) and instructional labs, seminar rooms, research labs, and collaborative spaces for students and faculty....
- Posted June 14, 2015
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Tim Cook: Apple isn’t becoming the new Microsoft
Are you getting the sense that Apple is becoming the new Microsoft, the giant corporation that’s simultaneously doing too much and refusing to take risks? Not surprisingly, Tim Cook would like to have a word with you....
- Posted March 27, 2015
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Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers
Microsoft gave us an early glimpse of the Windows Phone 8.1 and today they’re rolling out the preview to developers who wish to try out the upcoming Windows Phone operating system. The update is delivered over the...
- Posted November 18, 2014
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Microsoft will close Nokia Store and replace with Opera Mobile Store
In the wake of dropping the Nokia brand name from Lumia cell phones, Microsoft now plans to close down Nokia Store for its non-Windows Phone devices — Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha and Nokia X. The...
- Posted November 12, 2014
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