Microsoft News & Research

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Microsoft Research developing an operating system for your home
Apr 30, 2012


There are lots of discouragingly complicated ways to go about connecting electronic devices in your home, especially devices not intended for such, like a toaster. Microsoft is experimenting with its new HomeOS to try to make it fast and easy to make your home smarter, more efficient and more fun.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vJuy0dI3k

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Microsoft milestones through history

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Bill Gates holds a tablet PC on June 22, 2000, at Microsoft's headquarters
in Redmond. Microsoft introduced tablets a decade before Apple's iPad,
but the software giant was never able to popularize them.

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Microsoft Opens Research Lab in New York City
May 4, 2012


Microsoft announced the opening of a new research lab in New York
City, the company’s 13th lab worldwide--staffed by some world-class
researchers, including some former Yahoo researchers.

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Forrester: Microsoft winning the battle for the TV
May 16, 2012


Your living room television is becoming one of the most important sites in the next big consumer platform battle -- a battle that Microsoft is winning, according to research firm Forrester.

James McQuivey, a Forrester analyst, writes in his blog:

The TV battle is important for reasons you already know: TV consumes more time than anything else and it generates annual revenues from $140 to $160 billion each year in the US alone.

But the stakes of the battle have risen sharply. The fight over the TV is really a fight over the next massive consumer platform that is coming up for grabs.

Microsoft has more than 70 million Xbox consoles in households worldwide and its Xbox 360 is the most-watched Internet-connected TV device in the U.S., McQuivey notes, adding that, with so many consoles in households, "Microsoft can rapidly drive new video services into tens of millions of households."

He found that, currently, 32 million U.S. households watch online video on a TV set, up from 25 million last year -- many of them via a game console, especially the Xbox 360. More people use a game console to watch online video than use a set-top box that connects the TV to the Internet such Roku or Apple TV, he said.

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Micosoft NUAds

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No one really cares about those, geez what a spammer, paid hack or just a plain fanboy.

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Tech's Biggest Spenders in R&D
No. 1: Microsoft
R&D budget: $9.18 billion
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Face it: Steve Ballmer is doing a great job
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Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test
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Loved And Hated: The Life And Awesomeness Of Bill Gates
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Microsoft Research sets new record by sorting 1,401GB of data in 60 seconds
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Microsoft patents detachable dual screen Windows Phone concept
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Outlook.com Walkthrough

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Microsoft Windows 8 Official Launch:

http://officefabph.blogspot.com/2012...Windows-8.html

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Introducing the new SkyDrive

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Microsoft launches new logo after 25 years
Aug 23, 2012
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naging very simple ang new logo ng Microsoft ah....is it because of the interface of the new OS/Windows Phone?

[Impenneteri]

I think it's obvious that Microsoft is doing the "less is more" ideology on all of their upcoming software. Simplicity ang approach ng Microsoft ngayon because a lot of people criticize Microsoft especially their windows product as bloated and clunky.

Kaya they opted a much more simpler logo na tiles din which they are all applying to all of their products.

[Redm0nd]

I think it's obvious that Microsoft is doing the "less is more" ideology on all of their upcoming software. Simplicity ang approach ng Microsoft ngayon because a lot of people criticize Microsoft especially their windows product as bloated and clunky.

Kaya they opted a much more simpler logo na tiles din which they are all applying to all of their products.

pati store nila, nag-iba na din logo.

Boston - Microsoft Store

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Nokia & Microsoft Press Conference
Center548
548 West 22nd St, New York, NY
September 5th, 9:30am

• Manila time: 9:30pm, Sept05

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Microsoft's new super-bland logo has sharp corners, because they're afraid that Apple might sue them if they used the nicer rounded ones.

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Xbox Future!

Microsoft Patent Details Full-Room Gaming Experience With Wall Projections
September 11, 2012

Microsoft has been approved for a patent that could take gaming to a whole new dimension, allowing images from the TV to be projected around the room to create a 360-degree virtual display.

The company, which filed for the patent in March 2011, details a technology that would project a peripheral image onto environmental surfaces such as furniture and walls around a user. The focus would be on one primary image — for example, what’s highlighted in a game displayed on a TV — but projections around the room would serve as an extension.

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Microsoft Xbox Sales Get 49% of U.S. Market Last Month
October 11, 2012
Bloomberg


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"I believe that Microsoft never lost its relevance. I always tell people we're almost 40 years old now, fighting against every venture-funded good idea on the planet in the world's most competitive industry, and we're still here, OK? So I ask, "Do you think that's just an accident?" I don't think so."

--Microsoft development director Craig Mundie

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