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The latest marketing ad for Internet Explorer is refreshingly honest. Rather than making big, bold claims about the browser it lists the marginal bits of progress it's made.In the ad, the company takes a gentle dig at it fiercest critics as well as itself. The subject of the ad is ...

Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft, having just led the release of Windows 8 and, in part, helping to give the company a fresh dose of cool.Despite his efforts with the new OS, Sinfosky was seen as something of a controversial figure at Microsoft and, according to Cnet, was thought ...

Apple iOS tablet sales are still on top in the world, but recent figures show that Android has made a considerable increase in sales. Global sales of Android tablets reached 25-million in the third quarter of 2012, an increase of 43% from the previous year, according to Strategy Analytics.While Apple ...

Wow. Turns out people are really excited by Outlook.com. One-million people have already turned on the product that will ultimately kill hotmail just hours after its launch.The news comes via a tweet from the product's official account and in the wake of a media onslaught that may well have stoked ...

It was bound to happen. Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss for the first time in its history. A US$6.2-billion writedown isn't exactly great for profit-taking.The Redmond-based tech giant reported a US$192-million loss this quarter. While that might be a "far cry" from the US$5.9-billion it reported during the ...

After what seemed like ages installing Office 2013 I was good to go. A word of advice to anyone ready to try out this new version of Office, don’t listen to what the dialog boxes are telling you. Anyway, when it was finally installed I gave it a whirl.As a ...

The all new version of Microsoft Office is here. Sort of.The Redmond-based tech giant today released a customer preview for the latest iteration of its wildly popular productivity suite, Office 2013.The familiar names -- Word, PowerPoint, Excel-- are all there but everything has distinct taste of "cloud" ...

Screw Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the big divorce news on the web right now revolves around Microsoft and US broadcaster NBC.The two have ended their 16 year-long partnership on MSNBC, which will now be called NBCNews. According to The Next Web, the rebrand is the result of NBC ...

Microsoft will do everything in its power beat Apple. Not just in personal computing, the space in which the two have been rivals longest, but in every space that the Cupertino-based tech giant plays in.In an interview with tech news site CRN, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer made it clear ...

Wow. Looks like Microsoft isn't about to shut its chequebook just because of one measly US$6.2-billion writedown.The Redmond-based tech giant today announced that it had bought interactive design company Perceptive Pixel (PPI).The acquisition, announced at Microsoft's Digital Worldwide Partner Conference, was made to help with the research and design of ...