The Daily, 
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 The app is likely to become one of the tech giant’s more lucrative ones.
Sources reported to The Daily earlier today that Microsoft is working to bring the Office suite to the iPad. It’s already an
, but since the
 was launched earlier this year, we may be much closer to an actual release. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
, and the Office 365 feature is rumored to be integrated as well.
Mobile productivity is definitely (more…)

isn’t new technology, and that they’ve focused on it due to the
‘s lack of features.
Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, sat down for an interview with Forbes. On the topic of Apple ‘s Siri, he touted the “TellMe” feature.
“The Tellme facility’s been in the Windows 7 phone for more than a year,” Mundie said. “So I mean I just think people are infatuated with Apple announcing [Siri].”
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Few days back, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie in an interview with Forbes said that 
, and that Apple had focused on it due to the 
‘s lack of features.
He touted that the TellMe facility – Microsoft’s voice recognition and instruction technology that has offered similar functionality has been available in the Windows Phone for over a year and that people are simply infatuated with Siri.
In our earlier post, (more…)

- its upcoming next-generation operating system for desktop computers and tablets during its BUILD conference in Los Angeles yesterday. Windows 8 includes a number of features such as “Metro style” user interface inspired by
, Internet Explorer 10 that will offer support for touch browsing, Xbox Live and lots more.
With Windows 8, Microsoft and its hardware partners hope to compete with hugely successful Apple ‘s iPad running
.
Metro style. (more…)

Google has finally voiced their “official” opinion about the ongoing patent suits that are targeting Android,
.  We had earlier seen comments on this from Google officials, but this is the first time that they have come out in the open and written a blog post on the Official Google Blog devoted exclusively to the ongoing slugfest.
is written by David Drummond, Google’s Chief Legal Officer who claims that companies like Microsoft,
. He goes (more…)

Couple of days back, we reported that
.
TechCrunch has just reported that they’ve received some more interesting information from their source about Apple ’s partnership with Nuance.
as it is a leader in this space and also holds wide range of patents. It makes a lot more sense than buying the company, which currently has a market cap of $6.5 billion.
one anonymous tipster who correctly knew other information about the two companies tells (more…)

to buy them, Microsoft has surprised everyone by announcing that it has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion.
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The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s (more…)

Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie recently said at a lunch held in Sydney by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) that he did not know whether tablets like the iPad would “remain with us or not”.
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I think there’s an important distinction – and frankly one we didn’t jump on at Microsoft fast enough – between mobile and portable.
Mobile is something that you want to use while you’re moving, and (more…)

Nokia and Microsoft have just announced a strategic partnership, where Nokia plans to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its
.
Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the news in an open letter.
• Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
• Nokia will help drive (more…)

, and Windows Live Messenger.
What were conspicuous by its absence were Microsoft Office apps for iOS devices. The last time there were some indications about Microsoft Office arriving on the iOS platform was last year at the time of launch of the iPad. Back then, Microsoft had
. Later however, they reversed their stance and clarified that they had no immediate plans.
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