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By Thurrott, Paul Previous to last week, Spotify was available only in several European nations, which sounds like a recipe for irrelevance. But Spotify has garnered a whopping 10 million registered users in Europe alone, 1.6 million of which are actually paying the company a monthly fee to use a higher-end version of the service. And it is quite suddenly the music subscription service to beat. Source: Win Super Site
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By Thurrott, Paul Windows XP Media Center Edition was Microsoft’s first major foray into living room entertainment, and while it wasn’t completely successful, it did lay the groundwork for many future products, including Zune, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. Source: Win Super Site
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By Thurrott, Paul In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I are joined by special guest Mary Jo Foley and discuss a ton of news from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, including a Windows 7 sales milestone, Windows Intune 2 Beta, MDOP 2011 R2, Windows Phone 7, Windows Server 8, new Microsoft retail stores, more server stuff, Kinect and Xbox, and more, a Netflix price hike, Mac OS X Lion, and Amazon tablet rumors. Source: Win Super Site
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Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division, has resurfaced at EMC, the parent company of one of Microsoft’s foremost rivals. Source: All About Microsoft
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Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division, has resurfaced at EMC, the parent company of one of Microsoft’s foremost rivals. Source: All About Microsoft
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If you’re a Windows watcher, circle this date on your calendar: April 10, 2012. That’s the date when mainstream support for Windows Vista officially ends. And it cannot come soon enough for Microsoft, whose public image was badly damaged by the massively unliked Vista. If the rumors about a possible Windows 8 release in April 2012 are true, it will be an almost perfect changing of the guard. But vanquishing the ghost of Windows Vista is the easy challenge for Microsoft. Windows XP is still hanging around on stage, bumping into scenery and generally interfering with Microsoft’s careful messaging about all the cool and useful stuff it’s doing today. I thought about…
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Microsoft officials showed off on July 12 at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client, is on the same development track and path as Windows 8 client. If we Microsoft watchers are right, both Windows 8 client and server should be out in 2012, possibly in the first half of the year. Microsoft is touting Windows Server 8 as a key private-cloud building block, which means virtualization will be critical to the next release. Microsoft demonstrated only one of what officials said would be several of more than 100 new features coming in the …
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What is Microsoft’s mystery “Tulalip” social/search app? I’m thinking it could be FUSE Labs’ Spindex. Here’s why. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is adding more and more Microsoft-hosted apps to its Office 365 cloud platform. Latest likely additions: Project Online and Visio Online. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is making available for download the first release a new piece of cloud analytics technology developed by its eXtreme Computing Group that is known as Project Daytona. Source: All About Microsoft
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By Thurrott, Paul Windows XP Tablet PC Edition was one of two major additions to the XP lineup that came in the years after the main product line debuted in 2001. There were two versions of XP for tablets, Tablet PC Edition and Tablet PC Edition 2005. After that, Tablet PC functionality was simply added directly into more mainstream Windows versions in Windows Vista and 7. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft is making available for download the first release a new piece of cloud analytics technology developed by its eXtreme Computing Group that is known as Project Daytona. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is adding more and more Microsoft-hosted apps to its Office 365 cloud platform. Latest likely additions: Project Online and Visio Online. Source: All About Microsoft
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By Thurrott, Paul An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including PC sales in the second quarter, Amazon’s rumored tablet entries, Kate Hudson names her son Bing, Windows 8 and Xbox compatibility rumored but likely untrue, Microsoft sued over classic Windows Phone ads, WD to release SMB storage server, Google earnings, EA buy Plants vs. Zombies maker, and Spotify finally launches in the US... Source: Win Super Site
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What is Microsoft’s mystery “Tulalip” social/search app? I’m thinking it could be FUSE Labs’ Spindex. Here’s why. Source: All About Microsoft
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BizTalk, Microsoft’s enterprise integration and messaging server, used to be on a fairly well-defined path. But that roadmap has gotten a lot more vague since Microsoft shipped BizTalk Server 2010 last fall. Source: All About Microsoft
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BizTalk, Microsoft’s enterprise integration and messaging server, used to be on a fairly well-defined path. But that roadmap has gotten a lot more vague since Microsoft shipped BizTalk Server 2010 last fall. Source: All About Microsoft
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The Web is better when developers can build safer experiences in their sites. With each release of Internet Explorer, we
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Does an HTML5 browser running on all Microsoft platforms go far enough in terms of enabling the Redmondians to create their promised unified ecosystem? Source: All About Microsoft
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Does an HTML5 browser running on all Microsoft platforms go far enough in terms of enabling the Redmondians to create their promised unified ecosystem? Source: All About Microsoft
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By Thurrott, Paul Mac OS X Lion represents a first step, I think, towards melding the OS X user experience with that of Apple’s far more popular iOS devices--the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. And while it’s not entirely successful in this first rendition, Apple has delivered, for perhaps the first time ever, the first Mac OS X upgrade that is arguably more than just evolutionary. Source: Win Super Site
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By Thurrott, Paul After months of rumors that Microsoft was going to scale back its already modest retail store presence, Microsoft revealed this week that it’s going in the opposite direction: It’s going to dramatically increase the number of retail stores it owns and operates in the US over the next few years, and expand internationally as well. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft will be opening 75 Microsoft Stores in the next two to three years, said Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner during Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday. Source: All About Microsoft
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On the heels of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), Microsoft is making available a spinoff of it that works with its robotics development toolkit. Source: All About Microsoft
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On the heels of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), Microsoft is making available a spinoff of it that works with its robotics development toolkit product. Source: All About Microsoft
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