Touch: after the table, Microsoft made the wall

Microsoft bought a very large tactile surfaces specialist, to propose to touch walls.

A few days ago, Microsoft announced its takeover of Perceptive Pixel. A specialist of very large touch screens, which the plateau of the American channel CNN's "magic wall". The idea to Microsoft is clear: offer a very comprehensive catalogue of touch solutions, and take advantage of the release of Windows 8 (and its Metro interface thinking to the touch at the base) to push these products. Thus, tactile walls will be proposed in addition to PixelSense, the new name given to the Microsoft Surface touch table. And for cause, Surface is the brand that Microsoft chose to reuse to its shelves.

It is not known how much money Microsoft has put on the table to Perceptive Pixel, but we know that it is the division Office of the giant who will manage this acquisition, touch walls being clearly solutions oriented professionals. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, it is a very intelligent redemption and he promised that the first objective will be to ensure to reduce the price of these impressive solutions. Most importantly, Microsoft weapon new touch recognition technology. Touchscreen is taking a considerable importance in the high-tech market.

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OUYA: Should Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo tremble?

And if this OUYA was able to get a place in the video game console market?

The console very inspired official but turning models under Android with a SoC ARM and coming from Asia, there are dozens. But a project which also quickly Federated players than this OUYA, benefiting from the exhibition currently offered to any well wrapped Kickstarter project since the crowdsourcing is fashionable, it is more rare. Because success is already at the rendezvous, at least in the promises of funding. Added only a few hours on Kickstarter, the OUYA project has already attracted more than 20,000 investors, which allows the console to explode its initial objective of harvest $950,000 in record time. Currently, the collected sum displays more than 2.6 million $, what give a sacred kick to the project, actually. Especially him still have 28 days of fundraising.

But then, what did this OUYA to please as much? The promise is simple: it's a console under Android, proposing a joystick resolutely "gamer" to connect HDMI to its screen and that promises to offer quality games, if possible independent and the mode of the Free-to-Play. Some see it as a useless defiance to platforms in place, others the console of the future. In a context also uncertain that it is the game, although malignant industry would in any event that might know what type of game console will be booked in the future.

Always is it that project OUYA accompanied by some interesting business principles. For example, no royaltie will applied to game developers, and the SDK based on Android will be simply integrated into the console. Don't need, therefore, for the studios to invest in specific materials to develop a game OUYA. Only constraint: that sets OUYA are - at least partly - free. Demo and Free-to-Play (Freemium) accepted.

Click to see the video on Kickstarter...

If the sauce is, it is also because this console would be sold at a competitive price if times it came to be distributed one day. $ 99 For a console and a joystick ($ 95 for the first 1000 contributors). Expected now to know more, waiting to see a finished prototype, before will be launched production and development kits are available.

Reactions of independent developers are rather ambitious. Jenova Chen, creator of flOw, Flower and Journey, said: "I'm excited by OUYA." "I think there is always material to disrupt the status quo," while Adamm Saltsman, Canabalt creator, explains: "the prospect of a console open and affordable, is an excellent idea".

Preliminary technical data:

CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core1 GB of RAM8 GB of flash memory connection HDMI, 1080pWiFi 802.11 b/g/nBluetooth 4.0Un port USB 2.0controleur wireless (touchpad, two analog sticks, pad, eight buttons) Android 4.0

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Tablet Surface: Microsoft is developing its partners is back...

Some indiscretions from partners at Microsoft are strained relations. Considering himself unfairly shifted, some would already have pay the Publisher.

In deciding to launch the Windows tablets under its own brand, Microsoft is debated. Some see it as a sign to the presence of its OS Windows on mobile platforms, finding brave on the part of Microsoft want to lead by example. But others believe that the reputation of Microsoft will do, that with products such as Surface bars, competing models are likely to be completely eclipsed. Besides the confusion that this can lead to market the Windows Tablet...

Thus, our colleagues from CNET have done a quick survey among their sources for PC manufacturers and it seems to highlight a common resentment of nervousness and rogne, which obviously leads to now imagine strategies to counter the iPad, but also now the Tablet Surface. Or how to succeed as a Microsoft partner and manufacturer of Tablet Windows, to the strategies of the editor of the bone trying to adventure the marketing of its own products. This is a climate that promises to be "funky" at the exit of Windows RT.

Like to add fuel to the fire, we learn that the Microsoft marketing departments have asked partners tablets manufacturers to communicate precisely the characteristics of their products, but also their prices. They enraged, believing that of its position, Microsoft hope decisive competitive advantage to succeed the launch of its own shelves. For the consumer, it might be the big winner of this Microsoft intrusion of tablets on the market. Indeed, CNET reveals that since the announcement of the Tablet Surface, manufacturers are boiling and that this could lead to new innovations and a tension on prices favorable to buyers.

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Windows 8: Microsoft wants to convince the business

With a dual interface system, Microsoft is struggling to convince for future migration to Windows 8. Several demonstrations were made at the TechEd to reassure professionals.

At the beginning of June held conferences TechEd in Orlando in the United States where Microsoft wished primarily reassure companies on the possibility of easily migrate to the new version of Windows.

A demonstration was made to tell professionals that it was possible to launch applications made for Windows 7 but Windows 8 and that it was even possible to run an instance of Windows 7 directly in Windows 8 via the hypervisor directly integrated into this new version.

At the direction of the "Developer experience" team of the firm of Redmond, we welcomed that it is now very easy to develop an application on Windows and to the test on the two latest versions at a glance. In addition, it is also possible to separate the two systems on two screens display to check step by step the developed application and thus control the behavior on each of the versions of Windows.

Another demonstration that could delight the DSI, it's Windows To Go. This new feature allows to have a fully customized environment as per the information system of the enterprise, all on a USB key or an external hard drive. This feature is only available with the Windows 8 Enterprise version that also supports BitLocker for encrypting data contained in the key or the hard disk. Thus, the employee may have its environment in the Pocket and use it on any machine. If the user is pulling the USB or the hard disk of the machine, the system goes into pause for 60 seconds, beyond, the system simply stops to prevent access to the data of the employee.

Loss of the key or the hard disk, the system and the data can be encrypted and thus avoid the loss of sensitive and confidential business data. Microsoft States that this feature works also well on computers that have a BIOS as the UEFI and than on first use on a new machine, the drivers are install without the need to restart the system at the end of procedure.

Is this be convincing enough for businesses? The future will tell...

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E3: Microsoft opens the ball of conferences

It seems that this Conference Microsoft lacked a bit of salt. We, it found great! The turning of jacket, a small revenge, and games, of course. That ask more?

It is therefore in the hushed setting of a luxurious Paris apartment, a packet of chips in hand and plunged to the bottom of well plush couch that we attended this first Conference E3, that of the Microsoft constructor. The Redmond giant has already announced that he would no announcement on a future console, large mass naturally focused on existing products, and in particular Kinect. It will have learned that EA Sport intended to integrate further way part speech recognition of the system on the games of its catalogue. For example, on a 13 FIFA, or a Madden NFL 13, it should be possible to change the composition of a team, and his organization, on simple request oral. This is which promises beautiful lyrical flights, of the genus "go, Gignac, you determined, you have too no! In the same vein, the next Splinter Cell, called "blacklist", will propose to use this bias to order tactical strikes, or program of diversions. And of course, the feast of the Kinect would not complete without the announcement of a new extreme Sport widget I have-envy-of-me-move-but-step-too. It is therefore with a barely concealed joy that we present your next tool to lose weight and make the sport without leaving your living room: the Nike + Kinect Training. It should arrive just in time to help you eliminate the excesses of the next holiday year.

Outside the purely playful aspect, Microsoft also intended to give a more open, more multimedia dimension to its console. This will be the integration of a Web browser (a sacred reversal!) Par_ailleurs, surprisingly: the choice of the editor does not came on Firefox or Google Chrome...), but also and especially by the arrival of the SmartGlass system, allowing many interactions between the console, and mobile media, tablets, and other Smartphones. Of course, any resemblance to Nintendo's Wii U Gamepad would be purely accidental (that said, it was good war, the Japanese publisher did not hesitate before him prick his pad design). More specifically, it is sufficient to install a common application on each device (it should work both under Windows and Windows Phone, under iOs or Androïd), then use the devices said to fly his remote console, take control of a game in real time, or transfer the viewing of a film of one medium to another.

Finally side game, Microsoft has been relatively short, with only 3 exclusive, which is not much for the moment: LocoCycle, Matter, and Ascend: New Gods. For the rest, it was the already seen or known: Halo 4, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Resident Evil 6, or Gears of War: Judgment... Games, they would have been so much more beautiful if it had the decency to present on PC. Well, it remained well for you comment on performance on stage of Usher for the promotion of Dance Central 3, but there are more chips. What a pity...

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Microsoft updates Windows virus Flame

The firm of Redmond has released a critical update for Windows to stop the Flame virus.

Microsoft has developed a patch, available in Windows Update as important update (KB2718704), to correct a fault of its operating system used by Flame which allowed him to live as if it were a legitimate application.

The malware described by the expert in computer security, Kaspersky, as "the third weapon computer the most sophisticated ever seen at the global level" after Stuxnet and Duqu allows indeed to collect data remotely, intervene on the computer settings, activate certain devices of a PC (microphone, webcam) to save conversations, make screen shots or even connect to Instant Messaging.

The patch is available by update module integrated Windows but also for download here. Even if Flame is very localized to the close and Middle East and can already be eradicated by a majority of antivirus, it is better to prevent than cure and immediately install the update available for all versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 7 and Server).

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Champion Microsoft of de-indexing with Google applications

If the rights holders on cultural property are very active dereference to Google applications, Microsoft makes more requests...

Google regularly publishes statistics on the listings requests that are sent to him and the links it actually removes from its search engine. As always, the Majors and other rightholders (NBC Universal, the RIAA or the British Industry Record Music) are part of those seeking more frequently Google on this subject, regarding the indexing of pirated content made available by various sites and blogs. But in the first place, there are Microsoft which has only asked the withdrawal of Google 543.000 Internet pages which were all products of which the rights belong to the Redmond giant. Microsoft remains on a large rate, since in a little less than a year, 2.5 million Web pages which he asked the dereference.

Fred von Lohmann, counsel for Google in charge of copyright law, explains that it is not uncommon that Google received 250,000 requests for de-indexing per week. In the month of May alone, it is 1.2 million applications were received on behalf of different rightholders 1000, on 24,000 websites. Figures, even if they seem very important, do not cover the whole of the unlawful activity on content protected on the Web, far from it. But then Google manages to process as many requests? A priori, Yes, because the search engine says that between July and December 2011, 97% of requests were processed. Google would like to announce that, in the future, these statistics will be published daily on site Transparency Report.

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Microsoft wanted to sell Bing on Facebook

Anxious to get rid of its search engine, Microsoft would have tried refourguer Bing on Facebook...

This is the kind of approaches that multinational companies prefer to keep secret. But the New York Times has decided otherwise and revealed that last year, Microsoft executives came close Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to the CEO of the first global social network to buy the Bing search engine.

Therefore a large folder, but a demi-surprise when we know the privileged links were woven into these two groups, Microsoft have included participation in the capital of Facebook and him having resold a part of its newly acquired AOL patents.

When these discussed, Microsoft tried to demonstrate to Facebook with Bing in anyway, it would be better cut for Google and its social offensive with Google. However, Steve Ballmer not had apparently not validated this proposal which, in any event, came on nothing since Mark Zuckerberg has just declined the offer.

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Windows 8: HD, Full HD, QHD, Microsoft refers to the scaling

Microsoft evokes the scaling in Windows 8, including for Metro applications.

Blog Building Windows 8 had remained silent since the launch of the Consumer Preview of the new OS from Microsoft. Or a new ticket has to be posted and a week after the launch of the new iPad and its screen Retina Display, Microsoft is... evokes the high screen resolutions.

The idea of Microsoft is to take advantage of uniformity in implementation around the Metro interface to unify the user experience. Whatever the definition of screen, Metro applications should therefore offer roughly the same ergonomics. In other words, it will not that elements are unreadable on the very high-definition screen of a tablet or take too much space on a monitor in standard resolution... While taking advantage of the high definitions to refine the display.

To do this, Microsoft will offer three levels of scale with Windows 8: 100% for a definition HD (1366 x 768), 140% for a 180% for a QHD (2560 x 1440) definition and definition Full HD (1920 x 1080).

Of course, the design of vector graphic elements is recommended, but many applications are still using elements whose size is not easily scalable, in contrast to the fonts that can be easily adapted. Remains that technologies - for some outcomes of CSS3 - will allow Metro applications to optimize their display based on the space available on the screen, and so for example to display more columns or rows of elements on a QHD screen on a single HD screen.

With and without scale...

However, Microsoft doesn't mention this management of display for the traditional Windows desktop which, reminder, is managed as an application in Windows 8.

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The tax authorities will pay 20 million to Microsoft France, with interest

Microsoft won a trial against French tax and should be reimbursed of EUR 20 million for relief for the 1999-2001 period, not to mention 4 million of interest.

The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles has given reason to Microsoft France in the trial against the tax authorities. Indeed, tax services will have to reimburse Microsoft 20 million for relief to the company for the period 1999-2001. The Express, reported information, adds that the tax authorities must also pay 4 million euros of interest to Microsoft France according to this judgment.

Also, the appeal of the Ministry of the Budget was dismissed on February 16. As a last resort, the Department could decide to enter the Council of State to challenge this decision. But Microsoft is also within two other controls of the tax authorities. One first on the 2002-2004 period for which the administration claimed the company relief of€ 1.2 million. And a second for the years 2007-2009 for which we have no more information.

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These 2012: der of ders to Microsoft

Microsoft announced that it will more present at the Consumer Electronic Show from 2013...

After twenty years of attendance and presence in the these, the American Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced no longer want to participate in the event as an exhibitor from the 2013 Edition. The event will take place from 10 to 13 January 2012 in Las Vegas will be the last to see Steve Ballmer, Microsoft pattern, opening the show with his traditional inaugural keynote once delivered by Bill Gates.

Frank x. Shaw, Vice President of communication "corporate" of the firm of Redmond, explained via his blog: "the industry is evolving and changing rapidly." "And how we communicate with our customers must therefore follow the movement and also reactive." The announcement of new products should, according to him, not be dictated by a date and a specific event but to be at the appropriate time when appropriate.

Microsoft will thus communicate with consumers through social networks Facebook and Twitter, the Microsoft.com web site or via the Microsoft Store. A strategy which reminds strongly of Apple which was out of his presence in the Macworld event in 2008 to ensure its communication as seems it. All good things have a purpose...

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Amazon, Nokia and Microsoft would like RIM. Is another alternative possible?

In a difficult situation, RIM succumb to sirens of a redemption? Unless that a takeover bid put itself in place? Or that the Canadian manufacturer is another way to be relaunch?

According to several sources, Amazon, Nokia and Microsoft would all three competing to make their entrance to the capital of the Canadian RIM blackberries have more rating as was still the case a few years ago. It must be said that the action of RIM is down, facilitating the possibility of a takeover bid. "Well informed" people if it according to Reuters, say that Amazon - who had studied the possibility of a takeover of RIM last summer - continues to closely follow this trail.

Of course, any interested company made any comment on these rumours. This is not the case of Nokia and Microsoft, seen as potential buyers, and even via a hypothetical offers grouped because the two firms highly related today following the agreement signed between them around the Windows Phone. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is an idea that someone in the head of the two giants since RIM is at its lowest course for eight years.

Financial quarterly reports disturbing, disappointing sales of PlayBook, global network outages BlackBerry which fuelled the grumbles smartphones RIM holders, not to mention the BB OS 10 delay which is more expected before end of 2012... The image of the Canadian manufacturer is the lowest. But there may be another solution for RIM, outside a decision-making participation or a takeover. This is to provide licensed its operating system to other manufacturers. HTC and Samsung would be takers for the latest news. But then again, it is that of rumours.

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Microsoft: the return of Bill Gates?

Unconfirmed seem to indicate the return of Bill Gates to Microsoft controls. Hard to believe...

Yarn needle, the site Fortune predicted the return of Bill Gates as CEO of Microsoft... even if this is more than the fantasy of shareholders than anything else. They would indeed that the current President and CEO of the company leaves office at the earliest, hoping to revise upwards the current course of action that stagnant for too long to their liking.

Difficult however to believe a return to Bill Gates, well engaged in its foundation in the company of his wife. Knowing more continued to be part of Board of Directors, participating thus to the main decisions taken in the company of Redmond. For example we learned recently that it was he who had sealed the fate of the Courier tablet.

For or against the removal of Steve Ballmer? It is rather this question wants under hear Fortune. On the one hand, the multiple predictions or unforgettable phrases at the climb make him a CEO who is not deemed as sighted the future of the company. On the other, Windows 7 or Kinect are success stories that indicate that it is able to manoeuvre the ship in the right direction. Steve Ballmer could finally play its place with Windows 8 and the revolution that he intends to carry out, both in terms of interface and compatibility...

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Android royalties: Huawei could say “not” at Microsoft

Microsoft does succeed to reach an agreement with China's Huawei to receive royalties on sales of its Android devices?

Micosoft believes that Android devices infringe its patents and does not hesitate to put pressure on manufacturers of these to get royalties on each model delivered. A strategy that works, big brands have already signed agreements with the U.S. software giant, which allows Microsoft to generate more revenue now than its own Windows Phone. Recently, Samsung was concerned, joining HTC, Onkyo, Velocity Micro, General Dynamics Itronix, Acer and Viewsonic.

New target for Microsoft, China's Huawei, which - after having long made ??white label terminals for operators - markets recently Android smartphones under its own brand. Huawei has told the Guardian he was approached by Microsoft as part of an agreement to license a patent against royalties. Victor Xu, marketing director, confirmed that negotiations are under way with Microsoft, but it is clearly not ready to abdicate at the moment, challenging the legitimacy of the process.

Huawei U8230, the first Android smartphone sold in the Chinese own name

"We are part of those who respect intellectual property. But we also hold 65,000 patents worldwide. We can protect ourselves," says he, also waiting to see if the purchase of Motorola Mobility enough Google will enrich the portfolio patent editor for Android change the situation vis-à-vis Microsoft royalties. We do not yet know Huawei is able to sign with Microsoft or it will go to trial, as have Motorola decided to do it or Barnes & Noble.

A subject on which it is desirable that justice looks anyway, because if one side believes Microsoft still have not seen a single terminal that Android does not infringe its patents, Google accuses the firm of Redmond to extort money by threatening to manufacturers of trial. What had led to heated exchanges in the public, via Twitter.

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Microsoft launches Hotmail on Android

Easily access the Microsoft webmail on your Android smartphone...

An Android smartphone users were not spoiled to consult their e-mails in Hotmail. They should either install an unofficial application of a third editor and therefore potentially "dangerous", or use the web via the internet browser of the smartphone, not very practical... The firm of Redmond finally overcomes this problem out its official application Hotmail, freely available on the Android Market. It is not yet perfect but already:

To receive its messages mode pushD 'send, receive and view its jointesDe parts synchronize his contacts and his calendrierDe manage the files and sub-dossiersD' send photos directly from the mobileDe manage multiple Hotmail accounts

It is now available for Android 2.1 minimum equipped terminals.

    

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Microsoft still in free fall on the mobile

Microsoft continues its fall in the mobile sector. Since the launch of Windows Phone 7, its market share dropped to 38% United States.

If the Redmond company should be looking forward to something, that is the launch of the first Windows Phone of Nokia. This phone is almost the last hope for Microsoft to penetrate this market.

It's time for him, both the launch last October of Windows Phone 7 has not been conclusive in terms of sales. Of a market share of 8% in the United States on the mobile market at the time of the availability of WP7, Microsoft moved to a thin 5.8% according to Comscore.

The analysis firm believes that the focus has not quite been in its communication on the differences in Windows Phone 7 Android or iOS. This is what should be Microsoft with the Mango 7.5 update available in the fall. It announced to want to break the principle of "use, an application" by making them more permeable between them.

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Microsoft publishes good results

Microsoft is in the form. The software giant has generated more than $ 17 billion in sales over the past three months, for a little less 6 billion profit!

Microsoft has released the results of its fourth fiscal quarter 2011 (closed June 30). Over this period, the turnover of the software giant has reached 17,37 billion, + 8% in one year.

The benefits of the Seattle company is progressing to 30%, to $ 5.87 billion. Almost all of the divisions of Microsoft are better than in 2010. The CA of the Entertainment & Devices (Xbox, Windows Phone) group rose by 30%, and $ 1.5 billion. There are also 17% of sales in addition to the Online Services (such as Bing and MSN), with $ 662 million. This division displays however abyssal loss that accumulate to about 6.5 billion over the past three years!

The Server & Tools unit is an increase of 12%, with 4.6 billion, while the (Agency) Business division 7% more, and represents the heart of the activity of Microsoft with turnover $ 5.8 billion! Only black point, the recoil of a small little less than 1% of the Windows & Windows Live group that generates all the same 4.7 billion in CA. Microsoft ends its fiscal year 2011 with a total turnover of 69,94 billion (an increase of 12% over the previous year) and of the benefits of 23.15 billion (+ 23% from 2010).

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A signed Microsoft Tablet?

Microsoft would consider market a tablet in his name by the end of 2012. She expected Windows 8 and would be designed in partnership with Texas Instrument, and Taiwanese OEMs. DigiTimes, who reported these rumors, cited sources close to the record. Redmond is refused to any comment.

It is information which is likely. Market shelves is one of the segments that allowed Apple to become the largest OEM semiconductor spending. In recent years, Microsoft has is more invested in the commercialization of platforms. He experienced great success, such as the Xbox 360 and Kinect or important chess with the Zune or the Kin.

In addition, Microsoft admitted already working on a tablet. The Courier project had been very well received by the press (see "Courier: the Microsoft Tablet") prior to be set aside. Before the success of the iPad and the arrival en masse of Android tablets, it may decide to bring its weight to popularize Windows 8. In any event, Microsoft will impose significant constraints on manufacturers who will only be able to choose the components present in a specific list. It already has the necessary relationships with wholesalers and resellers in the world with versions of Windows and to mice, keyboards, webcams, or console box. The marketing of a Tablet would be very difficult.

The only problem which, in our view, prevents Microsoft to fully engage in this activity and that puts an end to the rumours is the relationship he has with the OEM. By selling a tablet, he would compete with its partners, which is never good in terms of commercial relations. Manufacturers have already expressed their discontent with the restrictive specifications imposed by Microsoft (see "The interface of Windows 8 unveiled"). They may complain of the Redmond bars unfair advantage while they are forced to purchase licenses to the Publisher. The problem is that today ', OEMs have the choice to not leave a Windows Tablet and focus on Android which is already significantly more popular on the slates that none of the systems of Redmond. Hypothetically, the firm of Steve Ballmer might be preparing its own tablet in the event that any of its partners decided to get out a convincing model. Nevertheless, we think above all Microsoft labs working on hardware platforms that they propose to partners to facilitate their task and convince them to sell a Windows model. We seriously doubt that Microsoft might ruin its OEM relationships and give them a reason to abandon Windows 8 in favor of Android.

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Touch Mouse: Microsoft puts the touch in his mouse

The next Microsoft mouse are tactile. Touch Mouse plays in the field of the Magic Mouse from Apple. No clickable button appears on the surface. Nevertheless, they are present through a few gestures the finger. In addition to the two selection buttons and wheel, it is possible to use the "next" and "previous" functions by sliding the fingers on one side or the other. Of course, it also has "Blue Track" of Microsoft technology. For recall, it allows to use the mouse on any surface with the same comfort of handling.Operated by radio with a receiver mini USB, it will be available current August against the equivalent of 80 euros.

The Explorer Touch Mouse is endorsed. Not yet officially announced, it was exhibited at the event "Christmas in July", in London. Adopting a classical form, it is also suitable for left-handed and right-handed. It has five physical buttons and a touch wheel. For greater ease of use, this virtual wheel has a haptic feedback felt a vibration in the operation. As the Mouse Touch, it is equipped with the Blue Track technology. Scheduled for the month of July in England, it is will be sold the equivalent of 80 euros.

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Microsoft filed a patent for the dual screen

Microsoft filed an application for a patent for an innovation to integrate two screens in a smartphone.The particularity of this method is thatit will allow the two screens to detach and communicate all wireless. Operating independently, these screens can display two different environments. In a video of the Office Labs, Microsoft shows a man receiving a video call on her smartphone. While a screen displays his interlocutor, he wears the other to his ear to chat. Of course, is far from this new way to call. Nevertheless, Microsoft is seems to take this idea seriously.One thing is certain, the smartphone is booming. For example, the GFK Institute announced that smart phone sales have increased 80% over last year, on the first five months of the year. At the same time, conventional phones have lost 15% in volume.

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