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Microsoft, on March 21, sued Barnes and Noble, Foxconn and Inventec — all of which are involved in selling Android-based e-readers — for alleged patent infringement. View the full article -
Supersite Tracking Protection is a new IE 9 feature that limits the browser's communication with certain web sites, which in turn prevents content on those sites from tracking your online activities. Tracking Protection performs its magic using one or more tracking protection lists, each of which works like a combination white list and black list. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Speed demons will love SSDs and why we like Mac OS X “Lion†so far. ... View the full article
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Supersite Today: I'm in France this week, Firefox 4 ships a day early, Microsoft's six biggest blunders, how Microsoft's stock price could double, some post-Windows 8 news, Eee Slate vs. iPad 2, and Twitter turns 5. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro AT&T announced Sunday that it will purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion in a blockbuster deal that will create the largest wireless carrier in the United States. The combined company will have over 129 million subscribers--AT&T Wireless currently has 95.5 million, while T-Mobile has 33.7 million--compared to over 101 million subscribers for current market leader Verizon Wireless. ... View the full article
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Supersite While PC users have a wide range of high quality news sources to pick from on the general web, Windows Phone users aren't so lucky, at least not yet. But one of the better news apps so far is this week's pick, the Huffington Post, a great source of breaking news and political coverage. ... View the full article
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Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Microsoft's twisted semantics on Windows Phone 7 software update blocking and their attempts to defame me, Internet Explorer 9 is released with tracking protection and ActiveX filtering, Intel's micro server initiative, Zune hardware rumors, Homefront for Xbox 360, and the iPad 2 launch. ... View the full article
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Supersite When Microsoft released the public Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 last fall, I began writing a series of Feature Focus articles that touched on each major new feature in this important browser release. Now, with the final version of IE 9 available, it's time to take another look at those new features and update the series to address features that were added after the Beta. ... View the full article
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Microsoft periodically switches ad agencies for various parts of its business. The latest switch was announced on March 18, with Publicis Group’s Starcom MediaVest unit winning a substantial percentage (according to reports) of Microsoft’s North American media-buying dollars. View the full article
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Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a “multi-principal OS-based browser” designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the description of ServiceOS has evolved View the full article
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Microsoft researchers have built a “library” operating system (OS) codenamed Drawbridge, and have demonstrated working prototypes of Windows 7, Windows 8 and various Microsoft applications running on it. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Internet Explorer 9's first-day download stats, IE 9 and Adobe Flash, "ethical" Microsoft still hasn't apologized, Windows Phone could be the next Zune, Apple seeks to calm wanna-be iPad 2 customers and seeks to destroy wanna-be iPad 2 competitors, Firefox 4 gets a ship date, and scientists claim to have found Atlantis. ... View the full article
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Windows Small Business Server 2011 hits the general-availability milestone on March 17, I’m hearing. What about the rest of the “Colorado” family? View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft's recently released Internet Explorer 9 seems to have a curious aversion against running Adobe Flash. Why? ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft today announced the general availability of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and its Premium add-on through the normal channels. ... View the full article
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The week of March 21 kicks off in earnest the annual Microsoft annual cycle of tradeshows — and the commencement of the first of many coming mentions of a word I predict we’ll hear a lot in 2011: Hybrid. View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft reports that its new Internet Explorer 9 web browser is off to a blockbuster start, with 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours of availability. ... View the full article
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Microsoft and RIM are set to unveil a new offering, possibly as soon as March 16 — a Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Service for customers using Exchange 2010 Online, Microsoft’s hosted Exchange e-mail service, according to my sources. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Intel this week began discussing its roadmap for a so-called micro server platform based on a super-low-power version of the Atom processor that will ship in 2012. ... View the full article
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Supersite Today: Google images of Japan before and after the tsunami, a RIM Playbook update, Google's "anti-Facebook" plan, Ars copies my Windows Phone complaint, Verizon preps first LTE phone, Jon Bon Jovi mans up against Apple, Windows Phone kills an Angry Birds clone, and Apple falls short, and then some, in its battle with Netflix. ... View the full article
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Microsoft is making available for download Beta 2 of its Visual Studio LightSwitch tool, starting March 15. View the full article
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There’s new evidence — courtesy of the Microsoft India Web site — that Microsoft is planning another Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year and it will be in Seattle again. View the full article
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A handful of former Softies who worked on the Microsoft Internet Explorer team have launched a company that is tackling the IE 6 migration problem faced by many businesses. View the full article