The Japanese giants go open-source to shut Microsoft's window on home electronics networking.
This was to be the next business to spin out of Microsoft after Expedia but missed the window before the dot-com bust.
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After that, Microsoft shows off the fact that Window 8 tablets can run two apps at once, which some people might find appealing.
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Microsoft continues to churn out new versions of its Window system, and expand its presence in the device area.
Microsoft's vision of the gaming console as the window into the living room is a big, big bet, and one that clearly hasn't paid off thus far.
So with operating system powerhouses like Microsoft and Apple, and upstarts like Google, the competitive window looks pretty small.
Viewers watched the speaker in a main window on their computer screens while following along with his Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft, for instance, is one of the biggest sellers of applications on its own Window platform.
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On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.
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Exploiting the preview pane feature in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program (which allows users to see a message in a small window before they open it) BubbleBoy can infect your PC even if you don't open the attachment it is hiding in.
" He also hints at something that Microsoft is working on: "The ultimate pervasive display...is a kind of a magic window, potentially as big as a wall in your house, which would allow people from different locations to interact as if standing on opposite sides of a giant pane of glass.
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