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Microsoft’s Surface Mini Is Back In Business
With all the rumours about Microsoft’s Surface Mini it is tough to tell whether the tablet will be released or not. Just last week we heard that Surface Mini production was halted after Microsoft received negative responses from industry partners. Now we are hearing production is back on, and the…
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Windows 8 Usage Growing Rapidly In Canada
It isn’t news to say that Windows 8 has had a tough time in many markets and uptake had been fairly slow. However, in the last year Microsoft’s newest OS has gained significant traction and new data from the Sage Group suggests that in the last year Windows 8 uptake has…
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Microsoft Targeting The Sale Of 16 Million Windows 8.1 Tablets Over Christmas
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite says that Microsoft are hoping to sell 16 million Windows 8.1 tablets over the holiday season this year. To achieve this ambitious goal Microsoft believes it needs to reinvent how people perceive Windows devices, presumably through advertising and marketing. Microsoft’s steps for this year’s holiday season…
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Nokia Introduces Lumia 2520
Nokia took its first step into the world of premium tablets, with the Lumia 2520. With a 10.1-inch tablet running Windows 8.1 RT, the Lumia 2520 features a high-end feature-set, and is designed to go up against the very best in the segment, including the iPad, the Galaxy Tab, and…
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Windows RT 8.1 Upgrade Is Returned To The Windows Store
After pulling the Windows RT 8.1 upgrade from the Windows Store 3 days ago Microsoft has now reinstated the upgrade to the Windows Store for Windows (8) RT OS users to access for free. Microsoft’s Support branch made the announcement on Twitter so we can only assume this means they…
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Microsoft Says Its Surface Brand Is Confusing Customers
To our average reader I’d expect the difference between the Surface Pro and the Surface RT is pretty obvious – one runs Windows 8 RT and the other runs full Windows 8, one has an Nvidia Tegra 3 ARM processor and the other an Intel Core i5 processor. The differences…
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Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet Pictured
EVLeaks have managed to grab a press shot of the upcoming Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet. The Nokia Lumia 2520 picture doesn’t reveal much other than we’ve got a 10.1 inch display, with a front facing camera, quite chunky bezel and a Winodws logo at the bottom-centre which is probably also…
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Microsoft Surface Mini Will Be Announced This Year
BGR reports that Microsoft is gearing up to release its Surface Mini tablet this year. The tablet will be an 8 inch form factor version of Microsoft’s Surface series of tablets and will ship with Windows RT 8.1 and a Qualcomm ARM processor. WinSuperSite reports that the Surface Mini won’t be…
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Second-Gen Surface Tablets Have No 4G LTE Support – WiFi Only
ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s second generation series of Surface tablets will not have 4G LTE support. In fact the second generation Surface tablets will apparently have no cellular connectivity at all – they will be WiFi only. Clearly Microsoft hasn’t learnt its lessons from the failure of the previous generation…
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New Leaked Picture Shows Nokia’s “Sirius” Windows RT Tablet
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite.com has posted a picture of what is apparently the upcoming Nokia Lumia tablet based on Windows RT. The tablet which is being called the Nokia Sirius for the time being is expected to be Nokia’s first flagship tablet. The device will come with a sleek red…
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Microsoft Has No Immediate Plans For An 8 Inch Surface Mini
Despite the widespread recognition that Microsoft really needs a smaller Surface tablet to capture that 7-8 inch tablet market TechCrunch reports that Microsoft has no immediate plans to release an 8 inch tablet aka Surface Mini. We will apparently see “smaller” Surfaces in terms of the device’s thickness but the…
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Windows RT 8.1 RTM Leaked Online
Microsoft and its customers are probably more than used to seeing leaked versions of Windows operating systems popping up on the internet well before the release date and the Windows RT 8.1 RTM operating system joins this list. Windows 8.1 RTM has already been leaked quite some time ago…
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Microsoft Offers $150 Discount On Surface RT
Microsoft has announced a rather large discount on the Surface RT tablet on their website. The discount sees $150 knocked off the Surface RTs with new prices of $349 (down from $499.99) for the 32GB Surface RT and $449 (down from $599.99) for 64GB Surface RT (tablet only prices). We…
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Microsoft’s Surface Mini Costs $299, Will Be Released In Q4
Microsoft’s Surface Mini is a much needed addition to the Microsoft tablet portfolio to help capture that lower market price point. According to a Focus Taiwan report we should expect to see Microsoft’s new Surface Mini tablet arrive in Q4 (October-December) of this year. Additionally the expected price point of…
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Windows 8.1 Preview System Requirements Revealed
The Windows 8.1 Preview is arriving on June 26th and will be unveiled at an event in San Francisco known as the Microsoft Build Developer Conference. This event will last from June 26th to June 28th and Microsoft are expected to unveil some interesting things there. According to a leak…
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