As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-up in a way to try to convince users to pay an annual subscription fee — with multiple-device-installation rights as a carrot — instead of buying the Office 2013 software outright. Microsoft is believed to be ready to launch its next-generation Office product within the next …

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While Internet Explorer is often treated as the red-headed step child of web browsers, there is one area in which Microsoft’s browser has traditionally reigned supreme, battery life. Microsoft’s own research has demonstrated IE’s power efficiency, and recent test results from the website 7tutorials have once again proved that IE enables user to eke out …

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Late on Wednesday, Microsoft revamped the UI for its various free Office Web Apps, making changes to the title bar and Ribbon interface. Today, the company revealed it will be adding a new feature to its Outlook Web App that will also include a change to its design.   The new addition is called People …

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Some Surface Pro 2 owners are reporting that Microsoft has quietly released a new firmware update for the recent Windows 8.1 tablet this weekend, about a month after the last such patch was pulled by the company after installation and battery issues were discovered by some owners. ZDNet reports that some Surface Pro 2 users have reported receiving …

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At the BUILD developer conference in April 2014, Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows, including a year-off release codenamed “Threshold” that will most likely be called Windows 9. Here’s what I know about the next major release of Windows. As a kind of recap, we know that Microsoft will update Windows 8.1 …

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For the past several months, we have been checking on a bug in Windows XP that has caused SVCHOST to push the CPU of a PC up to 100 percent usage for some users. Microsoft tried in November to fix the issue but was unsuccessful. However, the company pledged to continue to work on fixing the bug, which it stated …

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In 2009, Microsoft launched Windows 7 which supported a new type of theme that updated its images periodically via an RSS feed. They were called dynamic themes and Microsoft released a number of them over the years, including the Sky theme which was first made available fairly recently in August 2013. However, and with no …

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Microsoft has the rights to use quite a few trademarks and in the U.S. while most of them are obvious, such as “Windows”, “Xbox” and “Office”, others are a bit of a mystery. Earlier in December, the company made a number of new filings with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, and most of them …

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