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Microsoft says Motorola and Google will 'kill video on the web' with patents, files European complaint

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Microsoft announced this morning that it's filed a formal competition complaint against Motorola and Google with the European Commission, arguing that Motorola is abusing its patents committed to Wi-Fi and H.264 video by demanding excessive royalties and trying to block sales of products that include the standards. The move follows a similar complaint filed by Apple with the EU last week and an...

New Windows Store screenshots show Bing Maps app for Windows 8

Windows Store Bing Maps

Microsoft is still putting the finishing touches on its Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 but freshly leaked images show that the company will offer Bing Maps in the new Windows Store. We brought you news of the preinstalled apps for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but Chinese site PCBeta has posted some screenshots of the applications available in the Windows Store. Games like Flow, Hive Mind, PuzzleTouch, Cut The Rope, and Train Titans are all visible but the biggest addition is Bing Maps.

Bing Maps will be available as an option for Windows 8 developers to integrate into their applications, but, understandably, Microsoft is also preparing its own Metro style version for consumers. We have seen a Bing Windows 8 web app previously, so this application could be a natural progression of Microsoft's work for its touch-focused operating...

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Microsoft Office for iPad spotted in the wild, coming soon?

Microsoft's rumored Office for iPad application appears to have leaked into the wild this week. The Daily revealed an exclusive picture of what it claims is Microsoft Office running on Apple's iPad tablet today. We are unable to immediately verify the photo, but the interface...

Microsoft reveals Windows Live web video chat existence

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Windows Live video chat icons leaked out in August last year, hinting at a web video calling service for Microsoft's range of Windows Live services. The software giant appears to have confirmed its existence in a recent Building Windows 8 blog post. LiveSide spotted a video icon in the top right of Microsoft's internal "dogfood" version of SkyDrive that matches the previous icon leaks and demonstrates a green video status icon. The icon is also identical to one found in early versions of...


Microsoft offically adds consumers to full, 10-year Windows security update lifecycle

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Microsoft has made some changes to its support policies for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in order to streamline and simplify its Lifecycle support schedule. If you're not familiar, Microsoft has its plans for when it'll stop updating older versions of the operating system completely laid out: five years of complete support for everyone with at least five more years of security updates for commercial users only. That changed this month, however,...

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Google responds to Microsoft over privacy issues, calls IE's cookie policy 'widely non-operational'

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Earlier today, Microsoft accused Google of manipulating Internet Explorer's default privacy restrictions in order to "bypass user preferences about cookies." Google's just responded with a lengthy rebuttal, arguing that Microsoft's P3P cookie technology is "widely non-operational," and that the issue has been around since 2002. The response also points to other offenders, citing a 2010 Carnegie Mellon research paper that says over 11,000...