People familiar with Microsoft's product plans have said the company didn't anticipate the rise of sub-8-inch tablets, which comprised nearly half of the tablet market in the fourth quarter, according to IDC.
Until November, access to this store, which Microsoft calls Windows Marketplace for Mobile, will be limited to developers who are familiar with Microsoft and have contacted its staff to pitch their apps.
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On May 21, the company will forget about the troubled Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems and lavish a bit of attention on the Xbox, according to bloggers who cite sources familiar with Microsoft's plans.
Seattle-based Blue Rooster has been developing collaboration solutions for the enterprise for several years, building applications that offer Facebook-like internal networks on top of Microsoft products which these companies are already familiar with, including Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Microsoft Azure.
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The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, says Microsoft has already assembled a formidable slate of candidates to sit on Yahoo!'
But a source familiar with the situation said Tuesday that Microsoft is not trying to acquire all of Yahoo!
It's filled out a few other details now, crediting the info to unnamed sources familiar with its product plans who claim Microsoft realized it needed something to compete with the smaller competition (shocker).
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Any driver familiar with the flakiness of some early releases of Microsoft's products need not fear, however: his car will not crash each time the operating system does.
The biggest phone we can see of this baker's dozen of a lineup is the HTC Gold ( sound familiar?), due in November and loaded with Microsoft's mobile OS newcomer Windows Phone 7.
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Microsoft reached an agreement that will allow its Windows operating system, with which most people are familiar, to work with the open source Linux system used by rival Novell.
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