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Microsoft Windows 8: Here's What We Know So Far

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August 30, 2011
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Microsoft Windows 8: Here's What We Know So Far Microsoft's newest operating system is expected in 2012. but we have some of the nitty gritty details of its features now.
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Windows 8 Will Sport a Revamped Explorer Microsoft is adding the "ribbon," a strip of commands and options running across the top of the application window that changes depending on what the user is doing, to Windows Explorer.
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Windows Phone 7 Hits 30,000 Apps In app count, Windows Phone still trails Apple's App Store, which officially had 425,000 apps as of June, and Google's Android Market, which officially hit 250,000 apps in July.
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Amazon Tablet Will Be First True iPad Challenger, Research Firm Predicts ForresterResearch says an Amazon-branded slate priced below $300 would be a huge hit--selling 3- to 5-million units in the fourth quarter alone, assuming Amazon has enough supply to meet demand.
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Steve Jobs Gets an 'A' for Vision, 'F' for Philanthropy Apple's former leader rates closer to Scrooge than Bill Gates when it comes to charitable giving, according to one article.
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NSA, AT&T Warrantless Wiretapping Case Set for Court Two cases involving widespread warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency will face a major hurdle Wednesday in a federal appeals court in Seattle.
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After Steve Jobs: Apple's Future Under Tim Cook Bets on how Apple's leadership team will do range from failure to success, but the company's new CEO has promised that Apple will not change.
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Linux at 20: New Challenges, New Opportunities The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance.
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IPv6: What You Need to Do Now With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone.
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Americans Favoring Texting Over Talking, Study Says A J.D. Power and Associates study says the decline in talking and jump in texting may be because networks are riddled with dropped calls and audio issues.
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Samsung Launches Bada Phones with ChatOn Service Samsung's flagship model is the Wave 3, which has a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1.4GHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash.
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Counter-Strike with PlayStation Move Support? Count On It. Valve's upcoming online shooter will support both keyboard-mouse and Sony's PlayStation Move motion controller when it arrives in 2012 for PC, Mac, and PC.
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Sprint's Mysterious Event Fuels iPhone, LTE Speculation Sprint poured more fuel on the iPhone rumor fire Tuesday by announcing a mysterious "strategy update" for press and analysts scheduled for Oct. 7 in New York.
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Why Employees Should Surf the Web at Work Want to work better and feel more mentally refreshed at the office? Then keep surfing the Web and browsing articles from your desk.
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The IPad Takes on Manufacturing The iPad and other tablets are finding their way into distribution centers and warehouses.
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FAQ: What to Expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce Salesforce.com has become much more than an on-demand CRM vendor, given its forays into cloud-based application development, social networking and collaboration, and even raw infrastructure provisioning through Database.com.
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Survey: IT Pros Split on Allowing End Users to Download, Install Software In their efforts to keep malware off their networks, some IT and security pros restrict end users' rights to install apps on company machines.
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In Just Three Weeks, Facebook Pays Out $40K to Hackers Three weeks after launching a bug bounty program that pays Web hackers cash for finding flaws with its website, Facebook said it has paid out more than $40,000.
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Notice a Faster Web Today? Thank the Global Internet Speedup Using an open standard, this effort is helping content delivery networks make smarter routing decisions.
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