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Microsoft Windows 8 Beta and App Store Launch February

Microsoft will co-launch its Windows App Store and Windows 8 Beta in late February. Microsoft is offering a generous deal for developers, too. More details here.

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Paul Bonner: On the Irrelevance of Microsoft

Microsoft and its Windows are becoming increasingly irrelevant, says our Paul Bonner, to everyone but MS CEO Steve Ballmer and his tribe. What is up with that?

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Windows 7: How To Create a System Restore Point

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If your Windows 7 ever goes awry after you installed new software or hardware, you are going to wish you created a Restore Point. Do it. Its easy. Brian Burgess shows you how.

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Twitter: Spotify, Nokia, EMI to Partner, New Verification System, Twitter Choir

This story is breaking now — Twitter just announced a new way of verifying @handles and it is partnering with music developers to that end. But before you check out that story, watch the Twitter Choir above. Bizarrely, it sang at the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer keynote event here at CES.

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CES 2012: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Keynote on Twitter

Las Vegas: Here’s what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Monday night keynote at CES looked like to the world outside CES — on Twitter.

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Apple iPhone 5, iPad 3 and Google Android: What Yogi Berra Would Say

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Here’s what our Phil Baker portends for 2012 in tech, in the spirit of baseball great Yogi Berra.

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Jurassic Tech: My MSN Companion Circa 2000

Today in Jurassic Tech Todd Ogasawara takes you back to the Year 2000 — the time of network appliances like the NIC, the Compaq iPaq and his favorite — the MSN Companion. Check this hardware out …

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Windows Snap: How To Display Windows Across Multiple Monitors in Windows 7

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Here’s how to use Windows Snap in Windows 7 to display your data across multiple monitors. Works with the Windows 8 Developer’s Preview, too.

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My XBox Live App for iOS: Microsoft Pops It Out on iTunes

Today, Microsoft’s XBox LIVE iOS app surprisingly popped up in the iTunes store. Basically, the so-called LIVE app lets you compare your wins with your contacts, access breaking news and games tips — and, of course, change up your 3D Avatar. Details here.

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Facebook’s IPO, Microsoft, Yahoo and Black Friday in Monday’s Ranting Roundup with Eric Mack

Coming back from a wonderful four-day weekend to face the silliness of Facebook’s IPO, Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! and all the Black Friday fallout make for an especially lively ranting roundup of the day’s tech news with aNewDomain News Editor Eric Mack.

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