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Its official now! Microsoft has announced the acquisition over id8 Group R2 Studios for undisclosed amounts in a press release. Last week, it was reported via WSJ that Microsoft was in talks with R2 Studios while both Google and Apple had tried to negotiate the deal too, but could not get success. But this news was to be confirmed [...]
Windows Live team announces today that Messenger will retire on March 15, 2013 and will be replaced by Skype client. Starting from March 15, users won’t be able to sign in with messenger and be prompted to switch Skype. Earlier Skype president Tony Bates acknowledged that Windows Live Messenger would come to end sometime in [...]
Microsoft has sold 60 million licenses of Windows 8 since its launch on October 26. These numbers doesn’t mean that there are 60 million users of Windows 8, it includes retail sales of full version, upgrades as well as licenses purchased by OEMs to equip their PCs. Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer [...]
Microsoft is celebrating its 2012 achievements for some obvious reasons, and one of them is that the company’s browser, Internet Explorer has gained its annual usage shares for the first time in last eight years. NetMarketShare.com which maintains and monitors visitors said, “IE has ended 2012 with 54.8% share while it was losing the major [...]
Microsoft has previously said that Surface Pro would be coming in January 2013. However the Redmond Company did not share any specific launch date of the tablet. According to the CNET, the launch of Surface Pro is scheduled on January 26th that would be exactly 90 days after the Surface RT tablet, but nothing is [...]
A new acquisition by Microsoft can bring something cooler for home entertainment very soon. As the Redmond giant has acquired start-up id8 Group R2 Studios to complain its Xbox unit against an undisclosed sum, reported the Wall Street Journal. R2 Studios was founded in 2011 and is specializing in the TV streaming, and it could [...]
After a recent vulnerability that allowed advertisers to record mouse movements of users, the Internet Explorer browser is again under-attack. Microsoft has confirmed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows hackers to take control over a PC via infected web page. Microsoft Security Advisory (2794220) reads: The vulnerability is a remote code execution [...]
A month ago, the Windows Business Head Tami Reller confirmed that 40 million licenses of Windows 8 sold out. But now it feels that Windows 8 sales is defeating Microsoft the most and has ruined all the hopes which were with the PC sales. Acer President for the Americas, Emmanuel Fromont said, “There is no [...]
