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Nokia has some new Windows Phone 8 handsets in the pipeline and it’s going to unveil them to the public in a matter of weeks. Sources familiar with Nokia’s plans tell WPDang and Bloomberg that the company plans to debut its new line of Windows Phone 8 handsets at Nokia World, the two-day conference it’s Continue Reading →

Goodbye Metro, it was nice knowing you. That’s right, Microsoft is killing off the name that it had given to the Windows 8 interface, according to The Verge, which reports that the Redmond-based company has signaled an imminent change of name will come this week. The move had been speculated earlier today and now, according Continue Reading →

Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. Need evidence? Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google’s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsoft’s addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Social discovery is philosophy of online search that holds that people are more likely to Continue Reading →

According to The Verge, the final build of Windows 8 has leaked. Yes, it only took about 12 minutes. The build itself is an ‘N’ build which means that it does not contain Windows Media Player. For more on that, run a search for decisions of the European Union against Microsoft. As always, TNW won’t Continue Reading →

Just about the last thing Microsoft wants to hear right now is comparisons of any of its products to the Zune, its failed iPod killer that mercifully got the axe last year. But InformationWeek reports that Canalys analyst Tim Coulling this week dropped the Z-bomb when discussing Microsoft’s highly-anticipated Surface tablets, writing that ”the information Continue Reading →

It appears that Microsoft may be preparing to launch a number of ‘holiday stores’ in major metropolitan areas for the end-of-the-year sales rush. If you are Microsoft, what’s one of the largest challenges that you face, looking forward towards the conclusion of 2012? It’s not proving to people that the Surface is a good-looking device. Continue Reading →

Right on schedule, Microsoft has just announced on its Windows Team blog that Windows 8 has emerged from its long development and testing phase, and will soon be in the hands of manufacturers and OEMs for installation on new PCs and devices. Among those on the list to receive the final build (build 9200, if Continue Reading →

Netflix Max, which was first spotted by The Noisecast, has been made available to some PS3 owners through the most recent update to the company’s PS3 app. We just checked and didn’t have access to Max yet, but early users have been describing it as a kind of You Don’t Know Jack meets Siri: Max Continue Reading →

Today Microsoft has unveiled Outlook.com, a new email product from the company that will eventually be the home of the hundreds of millions of Hotmail users. TNW has extensively tested the product. It’s our view that Outlook.com is a well-designed webmail product that has the potential to reverse Microsoft’s lengthy slide in the product category Continue Reading →

Microsoft has already made its “decision” engine get all buddy-buddy with Facebook and Twitter, but now it’s taking the integration one step further. You’ll now actually be able to tag your friends in searches. Why, pray tell, would you need to do such a thing? Perhaps you’ve got a buddy who grew up in Paris Continue Reading →