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Microsoft mandates Windows 8.1 upgrade

Applies existing support policy to Windows 8: Customers must upgrade within 24 months to continue receiving patches and fixes

By Gregg Keizer

Jul 30, 2013 5 mins

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Microsoft faces lonely road with Surface RT tablets

Asus and other makers have abandoned the Windows RT tablet franchise

By Matt Hamblen

Jul 30, 2013 4 mins

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Windows RT on ARM chips is ‘not promising,’ Asus exec says

Taiwan firm plans to focus instead on making devices running Intel chips, report says

By Matt Hamblen

Jul 30, 2013 2 mins

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Microsoft to connect schools in South African white-spaces project

The pilot will show unused TV bands delivering wireless broadband to rural schools

By Stephen Lawson

Jul 30, 2013 4 mins

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Microsoft expands bug info-sharing program to larger crowd

Acknowledges increased risk of leaks to hackers

By Gregg Keizer

Jul 29, 2013 5 mins

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With Chromecast, Google reveals Chrome as its strategic big gun

The browser is behind Google's play for user data from as many screens as possible

By Gregg Keizer

Jul 29, 2013 5 mins

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Microsoft quietly drops Office 2010 upgrade

You'd think Microsoft would make more noise about this, given it has bug fixes.

By Andy Patrizio

Jul 26, 2013 2 mins

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Microsoft: Almost 90 percent of Citadel botnets in the world disrupted in June

The malware was removed from forty percent of computers in those botnets, the company said

By Lucian Constantin

Jul 26, 2013 3 mins

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Microsoft ships IE11 preview for Windows 7

Learns lesson after bitter complaints last year about IE10's late appearance on Windows 7

By Gregg Keizer

Jul 25, 2013 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Microsoft

European companies should stop sending data to the US, German privacy officials say

The exchange should stop because of NSA spying, privacy advocates said

By Loek Essers

Jul 25, 2013 5 mins

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