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Supersite This week on Tech News Weekly: Special Guest Host Paul Thurrott discusses what the new year means for Microsoft. What will the next gen of Windows be like? Is Windows Phone 7 living up to consumers expectations? Also Andrew rants about the Android Market Place, and where technology is heading. ... View the full article -
Windows IT Pro In the wake of a sweeping patent-infringement lawsuit in which Oracle claims that Google "knowingly, directly, and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property" in the creation of the Android smartphone OS, an open-source advocate has broadened the claims to include code theft. ... View the full article
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Supersite Today on the SuperSite Blog: A small site update, several Windows Phone posts, Eric Schmidt's reward, Gary Reback is, um, back, Bing + ESPN, whether Tim Cook is Apple's Steve Ballmer, Do Not Track is a non-starter in today's web browsers, iPad 2 display disappointment, Motorola Xoom availability, and whether SSDs really make a difference (hint: yes). ... View the full article
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Supersite Both Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome offer Windows users a way to commingle web apps with native Windows apps. But they differ sharply in their presentation and respective feature sets. Which makes the most sense for you? ... View the full article
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Supersite Paramount recently launched the first in a series of enhanced movie apps for Windows Phone 7, combining popular feature films with interactive features like custom clip creation, optional in-movie "Scene It?" trivia, and more. ... View the full article
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Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss a possible fix for Windows Phone data leaks, a rant about Microsoft's inability to patch Windows Phone, 2010 PC sales, Windows 7 SP1, December video game sales, an IE 9 RC preview, a new book from Mark Russinovich, OneNote for iPhone, Google and Microsoft's battle of the "nines," Steve Jobs and Apple, and Eric Schmidt's surprise announcement. ... View the full article
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Supersite This week's Windows Phone 7 app of the week is ZOMBIES!!!, a nicely-translated board game featuring turn-based player, local multiplayer, and, yes, zombies! ... View the full article
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More Microsoft news from around the Web, including the latest on data-uploading issues with WP7, continuing brain drain and a Seattle SaaS startup with deep Microsoft roots. View the full article
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OfficeTalk — Microsoft’s enterprise-focused microblogging technology — may soon find a home among the company’s product teams and become a shipping product and/or service. View the full article
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Supersite Today: Duke Nukem Forever gets a release date, Microsoft evolves OfficeTalk, Apple is perfect, Stuxnet mixed metaphors, avoid an iPad panic, Lenovo and NEC sitting in a tree, and Steve Jobs' real value to Apple: All of it. ... View the full article
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Supersite This week, there are two software picks for Windows 7, and the second one is Air Video, which provides a way to watch PC-based video on an iPad, regardless of the source. ... View the full article
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The first 2011 update to my Microsoft Codename Tracker chart is done and ready for download. Among the new codenames in this installment is Microsoft “Rome,” Mediaroom for Windows Phone 7. View the full article
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Supersite This week's Windows 7 software pick of the week is Eraser, a free utility that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a further brain drain at Microsoft, questions about the future of Google, a new Microsoft retail store, Kinect on Windows, Mediaroom on Windows Phone 7, the financial failure of MOS, a hiring spree for the next Halo game, the next Call of Duty behind schedule, and a Microsoft home page redesign. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro In a surprise move made during its quarterly financial announcement on Thursday, Google announced that it was disbanding its decision-making "triumvirate" of cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. ... View the full article -
Windows IT Pro In a surprise move made during its quarterly financial announcement on Thursday, Google announced that it was disbanding its decision-making "triumvirate" of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. As part of this change, Page will become Google's CEO and take charge of the company's day-to-day operations, Brin will focus on new product strategy, and Schmidt will become Executive Chairman and focus on deals, partnerships, and the like. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Last week, Google issued a controversial announcement, claiming that the Gmail portion of its Google Apps service had achieved 99.984 percent uptime in 2010. ... View the full article
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Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Windows, has jumped to Juniper Networks. View the full article
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Supersite Today: Microsoft's new tagline, a mandatory, anti-piracy Dashboard update for Xbox 360, new Microsoft retail stores, Playboy coming to iPad, Microsoft may have found the Windows Phone 7 data hog culprit, the death of user advocacy and enthusiast engagement at Microsoft, Android fragmentation, Lenovo's new tablet and smartphone group. ... View the full article
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Microsoft is opening another retail store in California, company officials said today. The new Microsoft store will be in Costa Mesa, Calif., at the South Coast Plaza Shopping Center — where Apple already has a store. View the full article
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A year ago, Microsoft and HP announced a three-year, $250 million partnership to deliver jointly developed “application solutions” and hardware-software appliances. On January 19, 2011, the pair went public with plans for a handful of the turnkey products resulting from the deal. View the full article
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Supersite Thanks to strong Mac sales in Q4 2010, Apple now controls 4.42 percent of the market for PCs, and controlled 4.13 percent overall for 2010. But what happens when you factor in iPad sales? ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Apple announced blockbuster financial results for the fourth quarter of 2010, as predicted, with a record net profit of $6 billion on record revenues of $26.74 billion. As the company noted, it was "firing on all cylinders" with strong Mac, iPhone, and iPod sales. But the most startling statistic was for sales of the company's iPad device, which easily shattered even the rosiest of predictions. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft and HP today announced a family of converged server application appliances that provide medium-sized businesses and enterprises with integrated solutions for business intelligence (BI), messaging, data warehousing, and database consolidation. ... View the full article
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According to a January 14 filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, Novell is selling off 800-plus of its management, security, identity and collaboration software patents to a consortium of tech companies, including Microsoft. View the full article