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Sunday, September 11, 2011


Hands On Video: The Toshiba Portege R835

 | Add a comment  Toshiba is going all thin and light on us with the Portege R835 model, its lightest ultraportable laptop at 3.2 pounds with an amazing eight hours of battery life and an unbeatable price.

WebOS Developers Consider Jumping Ship to Windows Phone 7| 

Microsoft will be losing a valued PC hardware partner in Hewlett-Packard. But it's not all bad news for Redmond. With HP's WebOS now marginalized, developers seeking a port in the storm may land at Windows Phone 7.

HP's PC Departure: The Good News and Bad News for Microsoft

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 Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it will spin off or sell its PC business certainly complicates Microsoft's PC plans, but it could also spur innovation among the remaining PC makers and with the death of HP's tablets thrown in, Windows 8 will face a little less tablet competition.

How Long Can Bing and Windows Phone 7 Be Beautiful Losers?

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 Microsoft's Bing and Windows Phone 7 products may be failures on paper, but Microsoft has a master plan to keep these non-starters going for the foreseeable future. But can they afford it?

Can IE9 Save Enterprises Money?

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 A Forrester study concludes that a migration to Internet Explorer 9 will save an enterprise a few million bucks over three years due to better malware protection and security features and increased user productivity. Let's look at the numbers.

Microsoft's Gamble: Metro UI as the New Face of Windows

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 The tile-based Metro user interface that runs on Windows Phones will soon be the look and feel that spans all devices in Microsoft's ecosystem. Is this smart streamlining or foolish consistency?

Windows Phone 7: Well-Liked But Far from Popular

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 Despite miniscule market share and anemic sales, Windows Phone 7 beat Android in a mobile customer satisfaction survey. So why can't Microsoft sell these things?

Hands On Video: The Lenovo Thinkpad X1

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 Lenovo, the biggest name in business-class laptops, has gone on a diet and the result is the Thinkpad X1, its lightest and thinnest Thinkpad model ever and an ideal machine for the enterprise mobile workforce.

That's What He Said: Ballmer on the State of Microsoft

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 Steve Ballmer's WPC 2011 keynote turned into a lengthy state of the state of Microsoft, as he expounded on the progress of its products and services and how they will affect enterprises, partners and competitors. Here are some of Big Steve's most quotable fightin' words.

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