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Rumoured Microsoft Surface Mini Tablet Crops Up In Amazon Listings

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Natasha Lomas  Next Story Uber, SnapCar And Others May Not Be Able To Use Geolocation In France Although it hasn’t happened yet, it’s clearly only a matter of time before Microsoft officially unboxes a smaller form-factor version of its Surface tablet. A Surface Mini has beenrumoured for well over a year – with both 7- and 8-inch options apparently being considered to augment the company’s existing line up of Windows powered tablets with the Surface 2 and Surface Pro…

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Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Update: I’m hearing that while Ballmer did intend to ship Office for iPad, it was Nadella who picked the date. This makes the below comment technically true, but perhaps slightly confusing.  Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company. Microsoft’s Office for iPad team took to Reddit today to check…

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Microsoft teaches robots how to deal with groups and draw from memory

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Us humans are good at predicting how people will behave, particularly in groups, but artificial intelligence routines still have trouble dealing with much more than controlled, one-on-one discussions. They’ll be far more flexible if Microsoft’s Situated Interaction project pays off, though. The research initiative has produced sensor-equipped robots that can not only recognize multiple people, but infer their objectives and roles. Office assistants can tell who’s speaking and respond in kind,…

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Ridley Scott is working on a Halo project for Microsoft

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY Remember that Halo film that wasn’t happening? Microsoft representatives have confirmedthat the old rumors are true: a Halo feature is in the works, and it’s being produced byRidley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Prometheus, Call of Duty Elite: Friday Night Fights). Unfortunately, the confirmation is intentionally vague, offering no other information save for the project’s director (Battlestar Galactica’s Sergio Mimica-Gezzan) and a promise that it won’t overlap with Spielberg’s TV series. It’s described as a “digital feature…

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Microsoft Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier

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As reported TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois After Google’s drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the company todayannounced its own round of massive price cuts. Prices for compute on Microsoft Azure (previously known as Windows Azure) dropped by up to 35 percent and Microsoft cut storage prices by up to 65 percent. With these changes, Microsoft matches all of Amazon’s prices and…

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The Resurgent, Post-Windows Microsoft

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Peter Yared Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive. Microsoft had become an oft-ignored, behemoth to the North, despite $77 billion in revenue, $57 billion in gross profits and $21 billion in net income. It seemed that the mobile revolution had passed it by. Although Steve Ballmer was already making many of the right moves, it took new CEO Satya Nadella to fully accept that Microsoft had to move…

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Microsoft Will Now Deploy Two Legal Teams, Outside Former Federal Judge To Approve User-Data Searches

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Following a court document revealing that Microsoft read the email of a third-party bloggerto uncover an internal leak, the company this evening announced a policy change, effective immediately, regarding how it searches user data that is part of its own network of services. Noting that it couldn’t, in its view, get a court order to search itself as none is needed, it will instead add layers of protection between it…

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Google and Microsoft are using the cloud to track climate change

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Data.gov is getting a whole lot greener thanks to its new section dedicated to climate information. The new channel is the product of President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative (PDF), and pulls information that can help predict the effects of climate change and prevent any damage that may result. The raw data comes from the likes of the Department of Defense, NASA and the US Geological Society, but probably isn’t easy to grok for…

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Microsoft is announcing an ‘intersection of cloud and mobile computing’ later this month

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY How does Satya Nadella run a Microsoft press event? We’re about to find out: the company’s new CEO will is coming to San Francisco later this month to talk about “news focused on the intersection of cloud and mobile computing.” The topic certainly plays to his strengths. Before taking the helm as the company’s new chief executive, Nadella played a major role in launching Office 365, Microsoft’s subscription and cloud-based Office platform. While that application…

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Microsoft Power Cover doubles the Surface’s battery life for $200 on March 19th

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY With the right accessories, the Surface Pro makes a mean alternative to your average laptop — but even with the second generation model’s improved battery life, it doesn’t last long outside of the house. Soon, that might be less of an issue: Microsoft is preparing to ship out the tablet’s Power Cover keyboard later this month. The $200Type Cover variant was originally announced with the Surface 2, but didn’t make it to market with the…

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