Windows Blue, which is thought to be the first major update to Windows 8, is also expected to give the industry a boost.

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Then along came Twitter and Facebook, and a simple status update was all that was required to share a thought on the Web.

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Again, the President asked both Tim and Larry to give an update on where they thought we were economically.

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First, I asked people (by way of my own status update on the FB) to list their favorite brands or those brands that they thought did a fine job.

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