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Microsoft releases update to fix Surface Pro 2 firmware problems

Fix addresses sleep-mode related, battery-life glitches

Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015

Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) to scrub infected XP PCs for more than a year after Microsoft ends patches

Some tech firms say Obama’s surveillance plan is thin on details

Companies like Mozilla, Google and Facebook wanted more answers in the president's speech

CIOs tell Microsoft: Take the time you need to pick the right CEO

Microsoft can't afford picking the wrong person as its next CEO, they say

Windows 8’s complexity tax shackles Microsoft

The new OS was meant to bring simpler times, but the dual-mode beast can't compete as computing changes, say analysts

New China-developed OS takes aim at Android, Windows

The company behind the OS is still looking for hardware partners to use its software

Is the Federal Government Ready to Embrace the Cloud?

Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014

Most are expecting Windows 9 to drop in 2015. That may be what Microsoft wants us to think, but it might not be the reality.

Microsoft’s Build 2014 dev conference sells out

Takes a little longer than last year to run through ticket allotment

Microsoft expands open-source efforts in Asia

Microsoft is opening an open-source subsidiary in China