Microsoft, PC Industry Will Need Windows Upgrade Offer More Than Ever

With Windows 8 arriving as late as November, Microsoft is turning to its old standby — a guaranteed upgrade program.
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Near-Final Version of Windows 8 Due in Early June

Microsoft will turn loose a “release preview” version of the operating system in the first week of June, Windows unit head Steven Sinofsky confirmed at a developer event.
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Mountain Lion and Windows 8’s Common Aim: Make Desktop More Like Mobile

Redmond and Cupertino are taking different approaches, but both aim to make their desktops and laptops more like the smartphone.
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At CES, Control Your Computer Screen With Your “Gaze”

Mouse? Trackpad? Touchscreen? Who needs them? Just use your eyeballs!
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Andy Lees: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)

Andy Lees, president of the Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, is enthusiastic about the future for Windows Phone 7.
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Even Microsoft’s Analyst Meeting Looks Like the New Windows (Enjoy the Slideware)

The Metro look is spreading throughout the company faster than the Melissa virus on a room full of unpatched PCs.
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Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2011: It’s a Windows World After All!

AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried and I are being held hostage by nefarious Microsoft PR chieftain Frank Shaw in a soul-sapping ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. — within spitting distance of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride — for the software giant’s annual meeting with Wall Street peeps.
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In 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed

Verizon Wireless’s new 4G network is “wicked fast” but potentially costly, writes Walt.
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Viral Video: Silicon Valley May Now Officially Blame Larry Kramer for BoomTown

Larry Kramer, the online journalism pioneer and persistent gadfly, finally took credit where credit is certainly due, in a story he tells of giving me my big break way back in the dark ages. In a video interview with Beet.TV recently, Kramer claims I “scared” him into giving me a stringer job at the Washington Post in the early 1980s. That does sound like me.

Fitbit Sees How You Run, Walk and Sleep

A tiny $99 tracking device knows when you are walking, running and even sleeping.
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