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Nokia's strong start for its Windows Phone handsets

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Nokia's strong start for its Windows Phone handsets
Nokia unveiled its first smartphones based on Microsoft's mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.5, along with bold promises and big ambitions. Based on the twitterstream that followed the announcements at the Nokia World conference in London, many tech savvy users, bloggers and journalists were unimpressed with the new phones. But those first impressions of that select group underestimate or miss Nokia's achievements. Read More


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Happy tenth birthday, Windows XP. Now please die
You were badly needed and came along at a time of great challenge and adversity and performed well for many years. But now it's time for you to go. Read More

Microsoft ships final Office 2007 service pack
Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its last service pack for Office 2007. Read More

Beauty and the geek: Windows Phone 'Mango' vs. Android
Microsoft's mobile OS reboot turns out to be a small update that lacks enterprise security and rich apps but is a cleaner alternative to Google's Android for smartphones. Read More


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Mozilla, Microsoft debut Bing-ed Firefox
Just weeks before Mozilla's lucrative contract with Google comes up for renewal, the open-source developer launched a customized version of Firefox that uses rival Microsoft's Bing search engine. Read More

Kelihos botnet domain provider promises to make amends
Czech-based free domain provider dotFree Group has settled the lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft in the Kelihos takedown case by suspending all abusive hosts registered through its service and promising better collaboration in the future. Read More

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner sells $1.7 million worth of Microsoft shares
Just weeks before Microsoft's shareholders will vote on an newly annual say-on-pay initiative, COO Kevin Turner sold 40,000 shares of Microsoft stock to pocket a cool $1,082,238 ... give or take a few bucks. Read More


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Will Nokia see new dawn with Lumia Windows Phone handsets?
Nokia's first Windows Phone handsets are the Lumia 710 and the higher-end Lumia 800. Here's a first look, based on the specifications for each. Read More

Why Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Apple-like' slippery slope
Now that we've been able to spend a little time with the Windows 8 Developer Preview, it's obvious that Microsoft is tailoring many of the interface elements to Touch enabled platforms. Read More

Analysts: Nokia still has a mountain to climb
Getting two Windows Phone-based smartphones ready for Nokia World was quite an accomplishment for the phone maker, but it still must overcome many challenges to turn around its smartphone business, according to analysts. Read More

Microsoft takes 'social' cue from Salesforce.com for its CRM
Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its Dynamics CRM (customer-relationship-management) software, which adds some social software functionality as well as closer ties to the Office 365 online productivity suite. Read More



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