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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In April, Microsoft announced a partnership with Cisco that offered enterprise customers a way to use Cisco’s data centers with Microsoft’s cloud services. Today, Microsoft announced what it calls the Cloud OS Network, which includes over 25 companies that have pledged to use Microsoft’s cloud services in their systems. In a post on Microsoft’s blog, Takeshi …
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This weekend, we noted that Microsoft’s lifecycle page for its Windows products had changed for Windows 7. Previously, the page said retail sales of the OS ended on October 30th, and that sales of PCs with Windows 7 preinstalled would end on October 30, 2014. Then the page was changed, showing that the dates for both …
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This week, reports from a number of media outlets stated that Microsoft had quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, and that sales of PCs with Windows 7 installed would end next year. However, since those reports have been posted, the Microsoft web page cited as the main source of those stories has been updated, …
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Over a year ago, Microsoft released a version of its Lync business messaging app for Windows 8 and RT. Today, the company released an update for the app that’s made to work just with the Windows 8.1 OS, adding new features compared to the old Windows 8 app. The Lync blog goes over what’s new with the …
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Microsoft’s goal of reducing the market share of Windows XP to just 13 percent worldwide by its support cut off date of April 8th is looking more and more like it will miss its target. Newly posted numbers from the research firm Net Applications shows that worldwide, Windows XP is still the second most popular operating system on PCs, …
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Currently, Microsoft’s only Office application that’s available as a full Modern UI app is OneNote. Microsoft last updated the app for Windows 8 in July and today, the company released a new version that adds quite a few new and useful features. As described on the Office blog, the new OneNote app takes advantage of some of …
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