But executives at Microsoft and partners such as Intel Corp.
Of course, this is almost exactly the same message we've heard from Palm about the Pre, but at least Microsoft's ideal users aren't a creepy alien lady or a mom from the 50s -- and they have a much better reason to Bing their way through the WP7S UI.
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Ya know, Microsoft Research is like the uber cool kids at Microsoft that are always doing things but all the people we know at Microsoft rarely have any idea what they're up to.
"I could always say I worked at Microsoft, but could never say I worked for Microsoft, " Pauli says.
But at this point, Microsoft has not only caught Sony but left it far behind.
But, at least as Microsoft describes it, SmartGlass will pull lots of those features together into one app as well as take them further.
Contrary to its name, though, the product that arranges all the routing among these scenarios is not a piece of glass at all but Microsoft's Kinect console.
He said he saw the process first with Richard Belluzzo, a former Hewlett-Packard executive credited with launching the Xbox game console who rose to chief operating officer at Microsoft but left after only 14 months in the post, in the same year Kempin left.
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We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.
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" As you might expect, Ballmer was also asked about the recent shakeup at Microsoft, but he apparently wouldn't say anything more than that he "wouldn't predict any drastic changes" in strategy for the division, and that "we'll have to accelerate plans" -- although it's not exactly clear what will be "accelerated.
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But look what happened: Microsoft did continue to grow, but at a much slower rate, and its once-unassailable monopolies began to come under attack.
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Executives at Microsoft acknowledge that a fourth wave has begun but insist Microsoft will dominate it.
But the merger and acquisition teams at Microsoft and Yahoo!
But Steve Ballmer (the No. 2 at Microsoft) has just revised that date to anywhere between June and October 1999.
But at least one new survey (sponsored by Microsoft, by the way) finds that enterprise IT managers see private clouds as a world apart from public clouds.
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But now Microsoft is offering to buy its stock at a big premium in order to compete with Google together.
Since the hearing was for an interdict ad interim (temporary injunction), IW might have to show that it could afford to pay all Microsoft's costs and losses if Microsoft won at a full hearing but lost at the preliminary hearing.
We're not exactly sure how this helps those who purchased an Xbox more than a year ago, just to have it bricked by the Fall update, and we're guessing that class action lawsuit isn't going anywhere, but at least it's a good step from Microsoft -- just a few weeks late.
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Some companies, notably Microsoft, do not pay dividends, but at the same time have huge buyback programmes.
The Xbox 360 was the biggest seller at the Microsoft Store, accounting for all but two of the purchases witnessed.
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But by last spring some grew restive at the idea of Microsoft's owning and managing the personal data on their customers.
It's a mainstay now, but back at the start of this past CES, Microsoft's Windows 8 platform was still far from release.
At Microsoft I was very deeply focused, but over time realized that I prefer smaller organizations that offered exposure to many more parts of the business.
But at a meeting with analysts last month, Mr Gates acknowledged that Microsoft would expand its security-software offering.
But celebrating these features seems dated at this point, as Sony and Microsoft ushered in HD (and Sony 3D) long ago, building up online entertainment networks far more advanced than what Wii U is introducing.
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That could be a result of Microsoft having a reduced presence at the show, but it also might be that mixed reviews of Windows 8 systems have led some companies to go back to the drawing board and retool whatever it was they had in the pipeline.
Microsoft first showed off this technology at E3 in 2009 but did not reveal many details about the system until Monday.
The product is similar in function to the popular Microsoft Kinect gaming peripheral, but is designed to be used at much closer range, and can detect more intricate movements.
But when he is really on the ball, he finds them a job at Microsoft.
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