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Microsoft’s Nokia deal could benefit rival mobile device vendors, analysts say

Microsoft's moves into the hardware market have previously drawn opposition from its PC partners, but could help them

By Michael Kan

Sep 3, 2013 5 mins

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Google takes second browser spot on the back of mobile

Company's desktop and mobile browsers combine to unseat Mozilla's Firefox from No. 2

By Gregg Keizer

Sep 3, 2013 4 mins

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Tech’s cash kings are sitting on billions

Compared to other industries, tech companies are the keepers of the cash

By Ann Bednarz

Sep 3, 2013 8 mins

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Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s mobile phone business

Nokia will focus on network infrastructure, mapping and locations services and technology development and licensing

By John Ribeiro

Sep 3, 2013 6 mins

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Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s smartphone, mobile phone business

In a $5.44 billion Euro-deal, Microsoft to buy substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services business and license patents

By John Ribeiro, Idg News Service

Sep 3, 2013 2 mins

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Windows XP’s user share nose-dives

Start of the last push before Microsoft dumps support?

By Gregg Keizer

Sep 2, 2013 4 mins

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Microsoft ends top Masters certification exams for IT pros

The Masters level certification exams will be retired by Oct. 1

By John Ribeiro

Sep 2, 2013 3 mins

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Windows 8 surpasses Vista’s uptake rate — 10 months after launch

New OS gains 2.5 points in August, second-largest one-month jump by a Microsoft operating system

By Gregg Keizer

Sep 1, 2013 4 mins

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Big investor gets option to join Microsoft board

The president of ValueAct Capital, one of Microsoft's biggest investors, has secured the right to join its board

By James Niccolai

Aug 30, 2013 2 mins

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Leaked German government documents claim Windows 8 backdoor big enough to drive a bus through. Sideways.

Trusted Computing and Microsoft aren't trusted by the German authorities

By Mark Gibbs

Aug 30, 2013 5 mins

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