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Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing. Microsoft had pulled…

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Microsoft’s Upcoming Sculpt Keyboard Is The Coolest Piece Of Hardware From Redmond So Far This Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM I suspect that you spend quite a large percentage of your life typing. Before work over email, on your smartphone during your commute, on your main computer at work, after work trying to find something on Netflix, and so on. It’s part of our daily flow, week in and month out. Given that the thing we touch more than anything else is a set of keys that we must…

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Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Admit Windows RT Is Dead

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant fight against Apple and the far more successful iPad with another TV spot that pits the two against each other. Spoiler: The Surface RT is declared the winner. Like in…

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Microsoft cuts Surface Pro price by $100 following Surface RT reductions

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren   Microsoft is discounting its Surface Pro tablet this weekend, following heavy reductionsto its Surface RT costs recently. The 10 percent price cut to Surface Pro reduces the cost of the 64GB and 128GB models by $100 each in the US. Not all regions appear to have Surface Pro price cuts just yet, but the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are all showing price cuts on both…

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Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it hands over emails and Skype conversations to the National Security Agency. Unfortunately, the federal gag order related to the NSA is so strict that companies can’t even talk about the existence of the program. Today, Microsoft begged issued a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to release the gag order so that that they can dispel rumors. “I’m…

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Of Course Microsoft Is Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS Quick! Everyone! Jump on the smartwatch bandwagon! In what could be the most predictable smartwatch rumor ever, AmongTech and The Verge are reporting that Microsoft is working on an aluminum smartwatch with a 1.5-inch screen. Act surprised. The watch is said to be already in prototype and features a removable band that will come in a variety of colors. Interestingly enough, the watch is said to be made of oxynitride aluminium, a sort…

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OneNote for Windows 8 gains Office 365 integration, touch keyboard improvements

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As reported on Engadget. By Myriam Joire Hot on the heels of the recent iOS and Android overhaul of OneNote comes an update for the Windows 8 and Windows RT versions which adds Office 365 integration and touch keyboard improvements. The app is available in the Windows Store right now and lets you sign into your Office 365 school or work account and sync notebooks right from within the OneNote app. As for the touch keyboard, it’s both invoked and dismissed by simply tapping into any empty space,…

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Microsoft Realigns To Focus On Hardware And Better Compete Against The Apples And Samsungs Of The World

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS by NATASHA LOMAS by ALEX WILLIAMS by FREDERIC LARDINOIS Microsoft made its biggest move yet to shift its focus on integrated hardware and software: today CEO Steve Ballmer announced a round of management changes that will see all the department heads changed and some formerly well-staffed research groups gutted of top talent to further bolster OS, entertainment, and mobile divisions. In short, these long-expected changes constitute a night of long knives at the company,…

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Microsoft spreads Office Store to 22 new markets, intros business intelligence tool

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee It’s only been a few days since Build, and the Redmond giant already has some extra news to announce. Previously only available in the US, Microsoft’s Office and SharePoint Store is now open in 22 new markets with added language support for French, German, Spanish and Japanese. Countries with new storefronts include Australia, Canada, the UK, Japan, India, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, Belgium and Switzerland (there…

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Windows 8.1 RT looks just like regular Windows 8.1, performance hasn’t changed

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman When we got hands-on with the Windows 8.1 preview earlier this week, it was on aSurface Pro — i.e., an x86 system running full Windows. Until today, though, we hadn’t had a chance to try the software on a device running Windows RT. Well, fortunately for us, Microsoft has a row full of freshly updated Surface RT units on display here at Build, so we took the opportunity poke around a little. As…

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