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Microsoft Release Windows 8

There’ll be two kinds of applications for Windows 8, one that runs in a traditional desktop nd the other pseudo-mobile apps based on HTML5 and Javascript. Keyboard and mouse will still be options for both sets of programs, but there are multiple virtual sets of keys for different form factors, including a split keyboard for vertical slate use and multitasking is simply a matter of swiping running apps into the center of the screen………

Microsoft Joins Patent Review Group

Microsoft turns to crowdsourcing service to swat away patent trolls and have joined forces with Article One Partners a New York-based research firm that crowdsources scientific expertise to figure out whether or not patented ideas or inventions are as innovative as they claim, based on prior art. Microsoft joins as charter member of Article One’s Litigation Avoidance program and global crowdsourcing network identifies evidence which can be used to invalidate specious patents through USPTO reexamination……….

Patent Of Microsoft Zune Nano

Microsoft will be phasing out the brand started a while back and off late have been strengthened by more rumors that Zune will be merged with Xbox LIVE and Windows Live and a Microsoft patent was unearthed containing pictures and descriptions of a bantam media player. The first thing that comes to mind is an iPod nano competitor and one has to wonder when exactly the plug was pulled from such an initiative………

Microsoft Took $5 For Every HTC Android Phone

Microsoft may be spending enormous amount of money and development effort on Windows Phone 7, but for now, it’s making more money off of Android than it is from Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft gets five times as much money from Android than it does from Windows Phone 7, because of a settlement in an intellectual property infringement case against HTC. The terms of the settlement call for HTC to pay $5 to Microsoft for every Android device HTC sells and HTC has sold 30 million Android smartphones, and so Microsoft has taken in $150 million so far as a result of the suit…………

Microsoft Announces Windows Phone Mango Update

Microsoft announces Windows Phone Mango update, coming in autumn and Mango update will offer new features for businesses. Mango will indeed be known as Windows Phone 7.1 and the update will be freely available to all current Windows Phone handsets. Naturally, the new goodness will also figure in new devices and from new partners, including Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE and a Beta SDK of the new Windows Phone free tools will be available within 24 hours…………

Microsoft And Facebook Make Partnership Against Child Porn

Facebook is expanding its efforts to fight child pornography using Microsoft technology and has joined the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s PhotoDNA program, which was developed by Microsoft Research and Dartmouth College in 2009, uses image-matching technology to find known depictions of child pornography across the Web………..

Microsoft Taking SAP

Microsoft and its cloud rival Amazon made dueling announcements involving SAP and their respective cloud strategies, for innovations to people-centric applications development for SAP software as well as virtualization and cloud computing without disruption of customer IT landscapes. Microsoft’s SAP announcement is full of future plans, while Amazon is offering certain SAP wares via the Amazon Web Services platform……….

Microsoft To Build Windows 8 E Editions & Windows ARM Versions

Intel exec shares more on Microsoft’s Windows 8 plans, will come in two major varieties: a traditional version with legacy application support and an ARM version that will not support legacy applications. The Windows 8 traditional version will have a Windows 7 mode for backwards compatibility and Windows 8 on ARM is primarily targeted at mobile and tablet platforms………..