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So about that Windows 8 logo…

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So there you have it, the Windows 8 logo. I was wrong about it being a fake. It’s very much a real, thing. I’m just going to quote from the popular and respected “Brand New” corporate identities blog which I wholeheartedly agree with. With Windows Like These Who Needs Enemies? …(Segoe) works best as a [...]

Cats & dogs: Microsoft’s charity dog calendar

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Where there’s cats, there’s also dogs. Having wrote about the Cats of Microsoft Calendar, I feel morally obligated to give equal representation to canine friends and their Dogs of Microsoft calendar. Unlike your typical cat versus dog scenario however, both win for very noble causes. The idea for a Microsoft dog calendar started in 2007 [...]

Photo EXIF evidence points to Windows on ARM before iPad release

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Turns out Microsoft has been working on Windows on ARM for a while, quite a while in fact. In Steven Sinofsky’s thesis of Windows on ARM (generically dubbed WOA) published on the Building Windows 8 blog today, two photographs of an early development build of Windows running on prototype ARM hardware dates the effort to [...]

Microsoft Surface 2 begin deliveries: Samsung SUR40 unboxing and first boot

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Two months after Microsoft started accepting pre-orders for the 2nd-generation Microsoft Surface Samsung SUR40, it has begun making its way into the open arms of developers like the one above for The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. With the device costing around dollarsignr9000, those of us who don’t have that kind of money to spare [...]

The hunt for the perfect computer headset

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Before the last couple of weeks, it’s hard to believe I used to hate headsets. Since then, my desk has been covered from anything between three and six headsets at a time supplied by the good folks at Sennheiser and Plantronics. Comparing six different headsets at a time wasn’t easy and I owe many thanks [...]

Geek-girl Felicia Day kicks off inaugural Microsoft Advertising Story Awards

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Today Microsoft kicked off the first Microsoft Advertising Story Awards contest to find the world’s most innovative digital marketer with the chance to win a trip to the Oscars-of-the-advertising-world, Cannes Lions 2012. The contest specifies “entries will be judged on how effectively your campaign plan uses Microsoft Advertising solutions”. Essentially, this is a promotion to [...]

Microsoft supports Imagine Cup 2011 student projects with $75,000 grants

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Even though winning the Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals was already a life changing experience for me, I only wish something like this had existed back then. No doubts it would have had a big effect on taking ideas to market. Today at the World Economic Forums in Davos, Microsoft announced the first ever four [...]

Razorfish raises the bar for Microsoft-based connected retail experience

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The last time I wrote about some of the cool work the creative agency Razorfish were doing on the Microsoft platform – specifically Surface, they were owned by Microsoft. Even though they’ve since been sold by Microsoft, it appears they still have a soft spot for Microsoft platforms. Yesterday, Razorfish announced a beta version of [...]

“Cicada 3301″ cryptographic puzzle game played out on 4chan & reddit: best job hire in disguise?

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What does the Caesar Cipher, a picture of a duck, Mayan numbers, King Arthur, 2143909608, 845145127.com, GPS coordinates in Warsaw, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Arizona, California, New Orleans, Miami, Hawaii and Sydney have in common? They’re all pieces of an online cryptographic puzzle game that began earlier this January. It all began with a seemingly generic [...]

Skype hiring both C# and HTML5 devs for Windows 8 Metro app

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It looks like if you can’t make your mind up about building a Windows 8 Metro-style application using either C# or HTML5, Skype seems to think you should just hire to build for both and let them fight it out. In either case, Skype seems to be readying a Windows 8 app for launch day. [...]