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Chinese researchers, Microsoft partner to teach Kinect sign language
The folks at Microsoft Research Asia have collaborated with researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to…
Microsoft: IE sucks… less
The latest marketing ad for Internet Explorer is refreshingly honest. Rather than making big, bold claims about the browser it lists the marginal bits…