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Google says when Microsoft’s products fail, it wields patents

Published on: 12th November, 2011

Google’s patent counsel, Tim Porter, said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that the currently in use system of patent registration for software was mainly to blame for the series of lawsuits started by Microsoft and other companies against the Android operating system. As Porter said, the current law allows Microsoft to use [...]

Windows Phone 7.5 present on all promised devices

Published on: 9th November, 2011

As promised earlier, Microsoft has started to implement its Windows Phone 7.5 update on all compatible phones, no matter what the device or carrier. The Samsung Omnia 7 and LG Optimus 7 were recently updated on Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica in Spain, respectively. Users can verify if their phone will receive the update online. It [...]

Microsoft and Nokia to give out 25K Windows Phones for developers

Published on: 8th November, 2011

At Nokia World conference, Microsoft and Nokia have launched a program meant to encourage developers to write applications for Windows Phone devices. They have combined their forces to provide developers with Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phones. Developers willing to write applications for the Microsoft platform would receive about 25,000 such devices. The Lumia 800, also [...]

Microsoft’s purchase of Skype approved by EU

Published on: 30th October, 2011

The $8.5 billion Microsoft purchase of Skype has been approved by the European Commission on October 7, 2011. Microsoft’s largest-ever buy was announced since May and received the blessing of the US Federal Trade Commission in June. The European Commission discovered that the two companies overlap in video communications and that there are no competition [...]

Microsoft deal to include Qik after Skype

Published on: 12th May, 2011

GeekWire has affirmed that the streaming mobile video company Qik would be included in Microsoft’s deal to buy Skype. Qik would be part of the $8.5 billion deal, after being acquired by Skype in January, for $121 million. The company was not discussed within initial plans but was likely to be included in the agreement. [...]

Windows 8 Milestone 1 leaked out on the web

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Some screenshots of Windows 8 Milestone 1 have recently surfaced on the web. Build 7850, the early build of the new operating system, doesn’t give any hints on any departure from the current interface design seen in Microsoft’s Windows 7. Cosmetic tweaks are, however, unlikely to appear at this point, with changes to Windows 7 [...]

Former Microsoft employee charged for defrauding the company

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Robert Curry, a former Microsoft employee, is currently facing federal charges after supposedly defrauding the company for over $515,000. Prosecutors have filed wire-fraud charges, accusing him of illegally diverting these funds through three separate wire transfers from the company’s corporate accounts to Curry’s own bank account. The employee is supposed to have moved the money [...]

Xbox 360’s spring update to add 1GB of storage

Published on: 8th April, 2011

The new format of the Xbox 360 disc is providing 1GB of storage back and is making it free for games, says a development source. Current games on the Xbox 360 have to reserve a DVD video partition for measures to avoid piracy. The usable space is therefore limited to 6.8GB. Microsoft is testing the [...]

Microsoft claims IE9 is the greenest browser

Published on: 8th April, 2011

Microsoft has made an interesting claim related to its Internet Explorer 9, characterizing it as the greenest browser. Using an IEBlog post, it published graphs of power consumption tests performed on Internet Explorer 9, Chrome 10, Firefox 4, Opera 11, and Safari 5. On an idle system, the first three browsers presented close numbers, but [...]

Microsoft announces 11,500 WP7 applications, attacks iOS, Android and PlayBook

Published on: 4th April, 2011

The one-year anniversary of WP7 development details was accompanied by a Microsoft’s virulent attack on iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook of RIM. Brandon Watson claimed Windows Phone 7 had reached about 11,500 active applications by concentrating on quality rather than quantity, while some of its rivals had been plodding. He criticized Google’s tolerance to almost [...]

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