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Hands-on with the new Surface 2.0 – Samsung SUR40

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The Surface 2.0 is easily Microsoft’s hat trick for CES 2011 . When all the attention and expectations were on Windows, a brand new version of Surface surprised and impressed most people I’ve spoken to

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Jan

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Windows vNext with native ARM support paves way for a unified kernel

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At the Microsoft Special Press Conference ahead of CES 2011 where Steven Sinofsky first revealed information about the next version of Windows with native ARM support , one journalist asked a great question – since Windows Phone is ARM-centric, whether the next version of Windows will also power the next major release of Windows Phone? Sinofsky avoided to answer the question entirely. If you think about Steve Ballmer’s quote from Microsoft’s keynote , “Windows will be everywhere”, desktops, laptops, slates/tablets, phones and even Surfaces could all be considered form factors of a Windows PC, running the same operating system across x86 and ARM

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Microsoft dubs Windows Home Server “Vail” as Windows 7 Home Server

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Even though the Windows Home Server team didn’t dare to make an appearance at Microsoft CES 2011 booth, I did spot a single Windows Home Server product featured in the Windows PC showcase. Discretely displayed at the show is the Lacie 5BIG Back Up Server.

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Microsoft dubs Windows Home Server “Vail” as Windows 7 Home Server

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Even though the Windows Home Server team didn’t dare to make an appearance at Microsoft CES 2011 booth, I did spot a single Windows Home Server product featured in the Windows PC showcase. Discretely displayed at the show is the Lacie 5BIG Back Up Server. On closer inspection of information card reveals an interesting tidbit, its operating system is Windows 7 Home Server

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Slideshow: CES 2011 Microsoft keynote

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On the eve of the largest consumer electronics show in the world CES 2011 , Microsoft hosted its hallmark keynote presentation at the Las Vegas Hilton Center by the man, Steve Ballmer during which he covered Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and teased the future of Windows. Disclosure: I am attending CES 2011 as a guest of Microsoft Australia

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Liveblog: Microsoft CES 2011 Special Press Conference

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At the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 , Microsoft has decided to host a special press conference at 1pm PST before its hallmark keynote event this evening at 6pm with Steve Ballmer. It’s anticipated they will give some teasers revealing what the company has in store for the years ahead.

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ASUS’s Windows 7 slate is deja vu of PC industry’s past failures with tablets

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A day ahead of the center-stage Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 , ASUS announced at its own press conference several tablet devices, specifically one of which runs Windows 7. Granted Windows-powered slates are all the hype, this doesn’t seem like the right way to go about it

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Dec

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CSIRO and Microsoft Research has eyes set on “White-(space)-Fi”

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[See post to watch Flash video] Video credit: ABC News Australia Australian’s very own government scientific research body CSIRO , infamous for its recent patent disputes on its innovations used in the WiFi standard , has just successfully field-tested a new wireless broadband technology using existing TV antenna infrastructure for rural areas.

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.NET Micro Framework project turns Christmas lights into IM contact indicators

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Some people hang colorful Christmas lights outside their house and others hang flashing ones on the Christmas tree, but you probably haven’t seen Christmas lights as cool as these on an office wall. Then again, very few Christmas lights are powered by the .NET Micro Framework. According to Andrej Kyselica’s forum post , who happens to be a Microsoft employee, he wrote a driver for the FEZ .NET Micro Framework embedded controller to individually-control a set of hackable GE-35 LED Christmas lights .