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The iPad  is a terrible enterprise computing device. It has limited connectivity options and no multitasking capability, and it’s generally a bad corporate citizen. When I hear other pundits talk about the recently announced Citrix Receiver software for iPad  as some kind of silver bullet for currying the device’s acceptance within the datacenter — ostensibly [...]

Windows 7 is the operating system Vista should have been – it starts up relatively quickly, drivers already exist to make peripherals such as scanners and printers work with it, and it does clever things that XP, the version of Windows most people still use, just doesn’t.

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is emerging as a challenger to the dominance of Google after capturing a near-11 per cent share of the market in little more than three months.
The latest statistics from Nielsen, the research firm, show that Bing, which went live in June, is now the fastest-growing internet search engine in the United [...]

Microsoft might have launched the first Zune back in 2006 but this new touch-sensitive offering is the gadget we’ve all been waiting for. The new Zune HD has world-class industrial design, a beautiful user interface and works with some impressive software on your PC.
Smaller and better looking in the flesh, it’s thin but feels comfortable [...]

Microsoft is building Bing with a view towards beating Google in an area its internet rival has highlighted as ripe for massive growth: mobile search.
One of the chief architects behind Microsoft’s deal to take over Yahoo!’s search has said Bing is being built to present results suited to mobile phones.
Charles Songhurst, Microsoft’s general manager for [...]

Microsoft Corp said it will announce an alliance with Nokia, likely unveiling plans to make the software company’s Office suite of applications available on devices made by the world’s top cellphone manufacturer.
Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, is set to bring out the latest version of its Office product next year, including an online version [...]

Microsoft recently announced that it was suing several companies that it claims have perpetrated click fraud on Microsoft  ad networks. This ad fraud wasn’t something detected by Microsoft. Instead, advertisers reported suspicious activity to Microsoft, which was spurred to investigate. That spelunking revealed companies gaming Microsoft’s ad system for their own profit.
Unfortunately, fraud is rampant [...]

Internet Explorer 8 is a very good browser, especially when compared to IE7 and (ugh) IE6. However, it still lags behind most of the other browsers in both performance and standards compliance. That doesn’t seem to bother Microsoft, which has been pushing IE8 using hype that they rarely use even for Windows or Office.
First comes [...]