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Kip Kniskern on May 3, 2012 12:29 PM |
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We’ll be in LA for E3, but you can follow along at home, according to Major Nelson and Spike TV. The Microsoft E3 Media Briefing will be carried live (Monday, June 4th, 10am PDT) ...
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Kip Kniskern on May 3, 2012 11:39 AM |
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While the future of Windows Live Writer remains uncertain, even with faint praise coming in the form of a tweet by Chris Jones, another Windows Live Essentials app missing from the Building Windows 8 ...
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Kip Kniskern on May 3, 2012 10:52 AM |
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Yesterday’s Windows 8 blog post on the “reimagining” of Windows Live, or, if you prefer, the “ditching” or “killing” of Windows Live, (as it was referred to in numerous tech blogs commenting on the ...
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Kip Kniskern on May 2, 2012 9:44 PM |
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When we said goodbye to “Windows Live” today, it wasn’t the only rebranding announcement to come out of Microsoft recently: yesterday Microsoft Advertising rebranded itself to “Bing”, or “Bing for Small Business”. And of ...
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Kip Kniskern on May 2, 2012 11:54 AM |
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In a post on the Building Windows 8 blog this morning, Corporate Vice President Chris Jones laid out the thinking behind what he calls “Windows Live, reimagined”, which perhaps most significantly, includes the zinger ...
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Kip Kniskern on May 1, 2012 10:35 PM |
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After receiving a tip today on (another) new look for Bing (thanks Hector!), we tried it out and sure enough, we’re getting a new search results page, a new header, and a new look ...
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Kip Kniskern on April 30, 2012 11:24 AM |
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The big news today is that Microsoft and Barnes and Noble have announced a new partnership where B&N will spin off its Nook E-Reader and its educational books business into a new, as yet ...
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Kip Kniskern on April 28, 2012 8:13 PM |
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It’s the burning question of our time: will current Windows Phones be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, or not? Ever since WMPowerUser republished a Zwame.pt interview with a Portuguese Microsoft evangelist saying that “all ...
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damaster on April 28, 2012 3:55 AM |
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Last week had been a busy week in the consumer cloud storage space. First we had Microsoft significantly upgrading their SkyDrive service, adding paid storage plans and desktop sync apps. Then we had Google ...
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Sunshine on April 27, 2012 2:23 AM |
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Microsoft will release a Windows 8 Release Preview in the first week of June. Steven Sinofsky announced this during a Windows developer event in Japan. The news was spread via Twitter. Twitter / @BuildWindows8: ...
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