Articles tagged "microsoft"

Looking at Skype's growth rate alone — one in three calls! — you can see that people would rather get free international calls that hold onto their right to privacy.

It's actually a good thing.

Google startled the tech world slightly on Thursday when it pulled back the curtain on the new high perforance, touchscreen Chromebook Pixel laptop.

The billionaire got really hip this week, however, when he showed up on Reddit to host an AMA and be the butt of a bunch of Internet geeks' jokes.

Next stop: Owning the entire web.

For the last five years, NORAD has partnered with Google to bring children the tracker, but this year the agency has switched to Microsoft.

Redmond's still trying to convince people that its newest OS is its best ever.

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Windows 8 is Microsoft’s Travis Bickle.

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Microsoft has fumbled enough balls to knows this might be its last play.

Imagine a video game that's not just confined to your TV screen or the six different ways you can flip your wrist to move the controller. Microsoft gave us a taste of the possibilities of a more immersive gaming experience with Kinect, a smart slab o…

This is a story about software, but it begins with hardware. On Monday, Microsoft unveiled its first ever Windows PC that it built from the ground up, the new Surface tablet. It’s a bold move for a company that built an international monopoly on the…

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This year at the 2011 Worldwide Competition for Microsoft Office, Rebecca Rickwood, a 15 year old from England, was able to beat out 228,000 other candidates to be crowned the Microsoft Excel world champion. The competition tasked competitors with or…

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In a sign of Bill Gates' determination to eradicate disease and the power of philanthropy to fill the gaps left by cash-strapped countries, the Gates Foundation has said it was giving $1 billion to vaccine distribution at the first annual Global Alli…

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Is there anything Kinect can't do? Robotics students at MIT have equipped the Xbox accessory's sensor-package to a quadrocopter, "creating a highly effective unmanned aerial vehicle":http://www.suasnews.com/2011/03/4851/mit-slam-quad-using-kinect/ (U…