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Sahil Bones Gupta |Oct 19th, 2012 at 12:58PM
It has been only two days since Microsoft has revealed the pricing of the highly anticipated Surface RT tablet and we already have it up for pre-order on eBay.in which is offering the tablet for Rs 38,490. Mind you, this not an official release as Microsoft itself has only opened pre-orders in eight countries and India is not among them. Additionally, the model on offer is the base 32GB model, which is without the vaulted Touch Cover. (more…)Google+
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Sahil Bones Gupta |Aug 8th, 2012 at 01:39PM
Microsoft is only preparing to launch its first salvo in the tablet market, but that does not mean that the sleeping giant is going to rest on its laurels. Microsoft is already engaged in the development of the next Surface product if one goes by a couple of job postings on Microsoft careers. TechRadar has published a story that states that there are vacancies ranging from mechanical engineers to component specialists and materials experts to driver developers and audio engineers, in addition to industrial de...
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Sahil Bones Gupta |Jul 9th, 2012 at 08:47PM
When Microsoft showcased its Surface tablets last month, the company made a big deal of the unique Vapor-Mag casing of the tablets. Sure, the build quality and the design language wowed the tech press, but the fact is that Microsoft is yet to produce a hardware product in great mass, apart from the Xbox, and till the consumers are wowed by the build of the tablet, the success of the Surface hangs in the balance. And related to this, The DigiTimes is reporting that Microsoft is facing production issues as the ...
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Sahil Bones Gupta |Jun 15th, 2012 at 01:22PM
With Windows 8 coming this fall, an armada of hardware OEMs will lock their corsairs on Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. That said, it might not be enough of a challenge and if a report by The Wrap is to believed then Microsoft agrees with it. Earlier in the day, Microsoft sent out invites to the press that it would make a ‘major announcement’ on Monday. Many, thought it would be sealing the deal with social network Yammer, but The Wrap is saying that it will be a hardware announcement for a tab...
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Sahil Bones Gupta |May 24th, 2012 at 01:05PM
A couple of months ago we filed a story saying that Microsoft was building an Office app for the iPad. Now our colleagues stateside at BGR Classic have confirmed this report, though with a couple of twists. (more…)Google+
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Sahil Bones Gupta |Jan 23rd, 2012 at 12:07PM
With the pubic beta of Windows 8 right around the corner Microsoft has detailed some of the salient features of the upcoming Windows app store. The store was previously shown-off in December and will launch in beta right alongside the beta build of Windows 8. According to Microsoft’s latest blog, the store will allow app developers to charge between $1.49 and $999 for apps, besides allowing free and demo apps. As of now there are no restrictions on the number of installable apps, however the app store wil...
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Zach Epstein |Jun 9th, 2011 at 04:25AM
It was a sad day when we learned that Microsoft was discontinuing its work on the Courier, a dual-display tablet that had tech fans buzzing. According to a report on Wednesday from DigiTimes, however, the company is still hard at work on a tablet. The Redmond-based software company is said to be cooperating with Texas Instruments and multiple Taiwan-based manufacturers in an attempt to push a Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet out to market by the end of 2012. Outside of the Xbox gaming console, Microsoft has...
