02/19/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR MICROSOFT.

• Survey Results Indicate Enterprise Search is Still the Number One... _{2013-02-19, 01:31 am}
  ... metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management. Platform agnostic, Concept Searching is also a Microsoft managed partner with a Gold competency in Application Development, and offers a complete suite of SharePoint solutions. The ...
• Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at Google's Gmail _{2013-02-19, 01:29 am}
  Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it's about spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc.
• Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at... _{2013-02-19, 01:25 am}
  Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it's about spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc.
• Microsoft Surface Pro Stylus Performance Issues _{2013-02-19, 01:07 am}
  Microsoft's Surface Pro is a beautiful device on its own, but it is not going to break new ground into the duopoly of tablets that are currently being slugged out by Apple's iOS as well as Google's Android operating systems.
• Hotmail is dead, long live Outlook.com: now with 60 million active users _{2013-02-19, 12:30 am}
  Microsoft has announced that it's finally pulling the plug on Hotmail, the service which it purchased in 1997 for about $400 million dollars from its founders Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
• Microsoft Takes Outlook.com Out Of Preview, Starts Migrating Hotmail... _{2013-02-19, 12:24 am}
  Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com , Microsoft's free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design, now has over 60 million active users according to the company's own data.
• Wellington team uncover vulnerabilities in Explorer 8 and Windows XP _{2013-02-18, 11:48 pm}
  ... Google have been victims of similar Internet Explorer security issues. "Our security assurance team alerted Microsoft to the issue, which deployed a fix for the two vulnerabilities on 12 February as part of its monthly 'Patch Tuesday' release," says ...
• Controversial News Publisher Software Gets Second Update for 2013 _{2013-02-18, 08:01 pm}
  ... resulting press release on the site. Additionally, News Publisher has been updated to work with the most recent Microsoft operating system, Windows 8. To learn more about this Software for Automated Press Release Submission, please visit: ...
• Microsoft turns focus back to downstream partners, says Acer chairman _{2013-02-18, 10:06 am}
  Commenting on Microsoft's loan to Dell for the company's privatization, Acer chairman JT Wang pointed out that the action showed the software giant has already turned its focus back to downstream partners, which should have a positive effect on the relationships between Microsoft and downstream brand vendors.
• Remote access scam has outsiders controlling computers remotely, efforting bank account information _{2013-02-18, 11:17 pm}
  ... number," McCain said. "We have had quite a few customers mention that they got a phone call claiming they are from Microsoft or from another company," said Alex Diaz with Top Tech Experts. The man who spoke to McCain said he gained access to her ...
• Microsoft-sponsored Idea Farm offers students chance to transform ideas into apps _{2013-02-18, 11:09 pm}
  The USG and the Keller Center will host the first Princeton Idea Farm , an idea development competition sponsored by Microsoft, from Feb.
• Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17 percent _{2013-02-18, 10:43 pm}
  Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17 percent and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite.
• Bill Gates Not Happy With Microsoft's Mobile Phone Strategy _{2013-02-18, 09:18 pm}
  Microsoft chairman and former CEO, Bill Gates in his interview with CBS This Morning has been critical of the company's mobile phone strategy calling it a clear mistake.
• Microsoft's Office 2013 Software Licenses Non-transferable _{2013-02-18, 09:18 pm}
  Microsoft has recently launched its Officer 2013 software last month and has announced that the licenses for the software are non-transferable. What does that imply for the end user? Basically you can only install the software on one machine now, as opposed to previous versions of Office.
• Acer W700-6691 Clean Install Display Issue _{2013-02-18, 09:14 pm}
  ... install all those bloatware back with it. Which I don't want. The Windows 8 ISO I use was downloaded directly from Microsoft. Anyone who own this device and has successfully done a clean install. I can use some help.
• Kiwi firm discovers IE flaw _{2013-02-18, 09:14 pm}
  ... bugs in software used to secure the Pentagon. Dimension Data marketing manager Phil Goodwin said it alerted Microsoft to the issues. Microsoft then deployed a fix for the two vulnerabilities that was distributed to customers through an "automatic ...
• Nokia! If Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates calls Microsoft's... _{2013-02-18, 09:04 pm}
  ... and interviews, including his TED Talk in Hong Kong about Augmented Reality as the 8th Mass Media Nokia! If Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates calls Microsoft's Smartphone Strategy 'Clearly' A Mistake and one that 'Doesn't allow us to get the leadership' ...
• Microsoft puts a video spotlight on several Windows 8 apps _{2013-02-18, 08:27 pm}
  I want a video where the developers on the awful Xbox apps as well as the Mail/messaging/camera explain how drunk they were to sign off on those abominations! I want a video where the developers on the awful Xbox apps as well as the Mail/messaging/camera explain how drunk they were to sign off on those abominations! Windows 8 and WP apps are ... (more)
• Product News: Microsoft Hikes Price on Office for Mac by 17% _{2013-02-18, 08:13 pm}
  Microsoft has quietly jacked up the price of Office for Mac 2011 by 17 percent for the Home & Student edition and 10 percent for the Home & Business edition.
• Microsoft quietly raises price of Office for Mac by 17 percent _{2013-02-18, 08:10 pm}
  Microsoft has quietly increased the prices of its Office for Mac 2011 by as much as 17 percent, putting it on price par with Office 2013 for Windows.