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		<title>Microsoft Windows 8 Update Will Be Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Microsoft says a planned update to its Windows 8 operating system will be made available for free later this year. The update is meant to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. Microsoft isn&#8217;t saying what kind of changes will be introduced with the release of the new system, though Microsoft plans to make a preview version available next month. The release of the final version is expected in time for the holiday season. Microsoft Corp. announced the update last week, but wouldn&#8217;t say at the time whether consumers would have to pay for it. Codenamed Blue, the update now has an official moniker: Windows 8.1. Microsoft made the announcement at an investors conference in Boston on Tuesday.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162765&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue Preview Coming Next Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/windows-blue-preview-coming-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard a lot about Microsoft&#8217;s next move for Windows, including a possible return of the Start button and the addition of more core functions to the operating system&#8217;s modern side. Now, Microsoft is promising to reveal a lot more next month, when it&#8217;ll release a preview of the software, codenamed Windows Blue. In a blog post, Microsoft&#8217;s Julie Larson-Green says the preview will arrive in late June, timed with the company&#8217;s Build conference: We know people choose Windows because it’s important to their lives and their businesses. They trust and rely on Windows for serious productivity and more and more serious fun. We are proud to keep evolving Windows in way that brings forward over 25 years of computing and create the platform for tomorrow. As with every radical change, learning is a process. We are getting smarter every day about how to help people learn and make the most of their devices. From work in Windows, to online content, as well materials and demos at retail we are constantly improving and moving forward. Ed Bott observes that the letter has an &#8220;almost apologetic tone.&#8221; It also hints that Microsoft wants to beef up the modern side of Windows 8 while making changes that are more accommodating to desktop users. All the whispers we&#8217;ve heard about Blue so far strengthen that notion. It won&#8217;t be long until we know for sure.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162557&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Windows Sales Figures, 1985-Present</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-windows-sales-figures-1985-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn&#8217;t mean much. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that Windows sales figures aren&#8217;t interesting. In fact, Microsoft&#8217;s news moved me to rummage around in Google Books, Microsoft&#8217;s press site and elsewhere for past sales data for various major editions of Windows dating back to version 1.0, which debuted in November 1985. Paying too much attention to the exact numbers I quote below would be nuts. Some are from Microsoft; some are from other sources; some refer to all licenses sold while others relate only to boxed software. What&#8217;s fascinating is the overall trend and what it says about the number of PC users in the world. Back in 1990 &#8212; 15 years into Microsoft&#8217;s existence &#8212;  the fact that Windows 3.0 sold four million copies in its first year made it one of the industry&#8217;s biggest smashes until that time. Today, Windows 8 is selling 50 times as fast, and we&#8217;re trying to figure out whether that&#8217;s an encouraging sign or evidence that it&#8217;s a disappointment. And now the numbers, all of which are for unit sales in copies or licenses: Windows 1.0 sales from its November 1985 launch to April 1987: 500,000 (Computerworld) Windows sales in 1988 (Windows 2.0 shipped on December 9, 1987): 1 million (InfoWorld) Windows sales, all versions, 1985 to January 1990: less than 2 million (InfoWorld) Windows 3.0 sales, first year: 4 million (InfoWorld) Windows 3.1 sales, first 3 months or so: 3 million (InfoWorld) Windows 95 sales, first year: 40 million (Network World) Windows 98 sales, first four days: 530,000 boxed copies through retail channels (New York Times) Windows 2000 sales, less than a month after launch: 1 million (Microsoft) Windows ME sales, first three days: 200,000 boxed copies through U.S. retail channels (Network World) Windows XP sales, first three days: 300,000 boxed copies through U.S. retail channels (Network World) Windows XP sales, just over two months after launch: 17 million (Microsoft) Windows Vista sales, one month<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162215&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft: 100 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold, Windows Blue This Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/microsoft-100-million-windows-8-licenses-sold-windows-blue-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Windows &#8212; perhaps more than any other major tech product &#8212; it&#039;s difficult to come to definitive conclusions about how it&#039;s doing based on raw numbers. A gigantic number of new PCs are going to ship with the current version of Windows no matter what; sales figures don&#039;t tell you what people think of Windows 8 once they get it, and convey only so much about whether typical consumers see it as an inducement to buy a new computer, or an argument against doing so. That said, some numbers are better than no numbers &#8212; and in a new Q&#38;A blog post, Tami Reller, the Microsoft executive responsible for the business side of Windows, has disclosed some new ones, while failing to mention one meaningful metric. Reller says that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million copies of Windows 8 since the operating system shipped on October 26. That means that the new version has matched Windows 7&#039;s performance rather precisely: that version also sold 100 million licenses in the first six months. Again, it&#039;s tough to know what to make of this fact. You could argue that Windows 8 should be outpacing Windows 7 given that there are now more PCs in the world than there were in 2009, when Windows 7 debuted; then again, you could also make the case that stable Windows sales are an accomplishment given that PC sales have been plunging lately. Me, I&#039;ve said all along that Windows 8&#039;s sales during its first few months didn&#039;t matter much. If we end up looking back at Windows 8 as a success, it&#039;ll be because it turned out that its radical change helped Windows stay relevant in the post-PC era. If history judges it a failure, it&#039;ll be because the reinvention didn&#039;t work. Either way, this thing is so much of a departure that it&#039;ll take more than six months before we know. (Disclaimer: by &#8220;post-PC era,&#8221; I don&#039;t mean an era in which the PC doesn&#039;t matter. I just mean that it&#039;s no longer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162202&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Hope I&#8217;m Wrong About Small Windows 8 Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/i-hope-im-wrong-about-small-windows-8-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still can&#8217;t get used to using the words Windows and underdog in the same sentence. But when it comes to tablets, Windows 8 is still an also-ran: according to IDC, Windows and Windows RT tablets accounted for just 3.7% of tablets shipped in the first quarter of 2013. Is the problem that the first wave of Windows 8 tablets, at 10 in. (25.4 cm) and above, are just too large? Looks like we&#8217;ll soon get the chance to find out. As PCWorld&#8217;s Brad Chacos reported on Friday, Amazon briefly featured a listing for an unannounced $379 8.1-in. (20.6 cm) Acer Windows 8 tablet before pulling it down. And today, the Wall Street Journal’s Eva Dou reports that Asus — a PC company that is never afraid to try something new — is getting ready to release smaller Windows 8 tablets, possibly at price points below $300. I&#8217;m always wary about coming to firm conclusions about products before we know all the details. But even though I&#8217;d like to see Windows find its way in the post-PC era, I&#8217;m having a hard time figuring out how small-screen Windows 8 tablets will have enduring mainstream appeal. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t see a place for Windows on smallish tablets. Microsoft’s new Windows interface — the one everybody calls Metro even though that&#8217;s no longer its name — should work fine on a dinky display. But you don&#8217;t need Windows 8 to get that interface, and apps designed for it, onto a small tablet. All you need is Windows RT, the Windows 8 offshoot designed for power-efficient ARM chips of the sort that manufacturers put into compact mobile devices. What will putting full-blown Windows 8 (and the x86 processor it requires) on a little tablet get us? Mostly the ability to run conventional Windows applications. But they don&#8217;t even work very well on large tablets, like Microsoft&#8217;s own Surface, without an external keyboard and pointing device. And I worry about battery life taking a major hit. The history of netbooks is instructive here. The first ones,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162157&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Strategic Blunder With Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/microsofts-strategic-blunder-with-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article updated at 3:13 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2013 to correct reference to Lamborghini paddles being used for steering. The paddles are used for shifting. Last fall, I had the opportunity to drive a Lamborghini at a corporate event that I attended in Monterey, Calif. This was a very cool experience since I have never driven such an expensive ($200,000-plus) car, let alone a serious racing car on a racecourse. When I was being prepped to drive it, the professional driver that was to be in the car with me went through the cockpit controls and showed me how they all worked. The dashboard controls looked like they were from an airplane, given the number of dials and complex features. The instructor pointed out that while the car had a steering wheel, it also had the racing paddles used for shifting gears, which made steering the car easier and smoother when going fast on a racetrack. These are amazingly sensitive paddles that make controlling the car easier at fast speeds with curves; they&#8217;re not for the untrained or faint of heart. When he was showing me these paddles, I became very concerned. I thought he was trying to teach me to use them too quickly before we were to take off. Thankfully, he said the paddles would be disengaged, and I would use the steering wheel for our drive. He also disabled a lot of other features a true race-car driver would use. As a result, I was basically sitting in a normal car with a normal steering wheel, brake, accelerator and speed gauges. The fact that I was going to get the car to 100-plus miles an hour on the straightaway still freaked me out, but the knowledge that I knew how to drive a normal car, even if this version was a race car, was ultimately comforting. The drive was truly exciting, but as I reflected on it, this race car was pretty much a normal, albeit highly expensive and very souped-up car. And because I knew how to drive<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162081&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Razer Edge Tablet Is a Rocky Shortcut to the Future of Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/razer-edge-review-a-rocky-shortcut-to-the-future-of-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For any gamer who’s been kicked out of the living room so the rest of the family can watch TV, the Razer Edge wants to be your dream device. The Edge is a Windows 8 tablet that runs the latest PC games. It offers attachable game controls, and can also slide into an HDMI dock for playing on a television or desktop monitor. For $1,350 with all the accessories, the Razer Edge is a home video game system, portable console and gaming PC all in rolled into one. It’s also a glimpse into the inevitable future of “core” gaming, when we’re no longer tethered to a bulky set-top box or PC tower, and we’re able to traipse freely from one screen to the next. But while other firms are experimenting with fancy wireless trickery and cloud-based streaming, Razer tried to deliver the future through brute force, and there are unintended consequences. Jared Newman / TIME.com Inside, the Edge packs a dedicated NVidia graphics card, a powerful Intel Core i5 processor and 64 GB of storage, at a base price of $1,000 without accessories. (A “Pro” model includes a faster i7 processor, Bluetooth 4.0 and double the storage for $300 more, or quadruple the storage for $450.) The Razer Edge Pro review unit I’ve been testing handled games like Far Cry 3 and Dishonored with more smoothness and fidelity than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Not that you could actually play those games on a touch screen. Instead, you can tack on Razer’s $250 Gamepad, which clips onto the tablet like a pair of wings, each with their own thumbsticks, buttons and triggers. Or, you can just plug a wired gamepad or mouse/keyboard combo into the Edge’s full-sized USB port. The result is a product that doesn’t look or feel futuristic. The Razer Edge is thicker than many thin-and-light laptops and heavier than a first-generation iPad. It has two large vents on the top edge that spew hot air during prolonged gaming sessions, and the bezel around the screen is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161125&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Readies New Mobile Devices</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/microsoft-readies-new-mobile-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Peter Svensson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Microsoft is working with manufacturers to produce a line of small touch-screen devices powered by Windows, apparently intended to compete with 7-inch tablets like the iPad Mini and Amazon Kindle Fire. Peter Klein, Microsoft&#8217;s chief financial officer, told investors and analysts on a conference call Thursday that the new devices will be available in coming months at competitive prices. Microsoft Corp. is struggling to extend its software into smartphones and tablets as consumers are turning away from PCs, the foundation of its empire. Over the winter, it launched two larger tablets under the Surface brand. And in October, the company took a large stake in Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s digital unit, which sells a line of entertainment-oriented 7-inch tablets under the Nook brand. Microsoft reported financial results for its latest quarter Thursday, showing a deep -but largely expected- impact from the slowdown in global PC sales. Investors seemed to be expecting worse after some recent dismal reports on the PC slump. Outside the Windows division, Microsoft posted solid results from its Office, software tools and Xbox divisions. Even if the company has a lot of challenges, &#8220;there&#8217;s a lot of good things going on at Microsoft,&#8221; said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Partners. The Redmond, Wash.-based company&#8217;s shares rose 81 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $29.60 in extended trading, after the release of the report. The software company&#8217;s net income was $6.1 billion, or 72 cents per share, for the fiscal third quarter, which ended in March. That was up 18 percent from $5.1 billion, or 60 cents per share, a year ago, and beat the forecast of analysts polled by FactSet, at 68 cents. However, analysts have trimmed their forecasts quickly in the last few weeks &#8211; a month ago, they were expecting Microsoft to post 77 cents in earnings. Last week, research firm IDC said PC sales fell 14 percent in the quarter, a record. It blamed, in part, Microsoft&#8217;s new Windows 8, which makes a clean break with the look and workings of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160716&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Needs More Apps Like TouchMail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/windows-8-needs-more-apps-like-touchmail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion on Windows 8 may be all over the map, but here&#8217;s one thing we all should be able to agree on: the more apps that take full advantage of the Windows 8 interface, the better shape the operating system will be in. What it needs, and hasn&#8217;t had, is a profusion of killer apps. At yesterday&#8217;s DEMO Mobile conference in San Francisco, I saw one of the first third-party Windows 8 programs that got me excited: TouchMail. As its name indicates, it&#8217;s an e-mail client designed for touch input. More important, though, it&#8217;s an e-mail client that feels like it was born to work well on Windows 8. For instance, instead of a conventional inbox, you get tiles which show incoming messages and provide a longer-than usual snippet of text. (They can be color-coded, so you can spot messages from your boss or your spouse.) You can zoom out to see more and more messages; if you go far enough, the tiles turn into icons representing the messages&#8217; senders, and you can quickly slide back to a particular day, week or month. TouchMail looks like it could be a super-efficient way to blast through vast quantities of mail; its creators say it&#8217;s designed for folks who get at least a hundred messages a day. It&#8217;s a little premature to judge it, though: the version which is live on the Windows Store is a teaser rather thank a working e-mail program. In fact, you can&#8217;t use it to get your own mail yet, only to view some sample messages. At DEMO, TouchMail&#8217;s creators got questioned by a doubtful judge about why they chose to launch on Windows rather than other platforms. (I understood his reasoning, but I was still startled &#8212; even five years ago, I can&#8217;t imagine anyone thinking that Windows wasn&#8217;t the by far the most obvious operating system to launch a new product on.) It turns out that they do intend to bring their creation to other devices, beginning with the one I use most, the iPad.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160556&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue: Return of the Start Button?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/windows-blue-return-of-the-start-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZDnet&#8217;s Mary-Jo Foley is reporting that Windows Blue, the upcoming Windows 8 update, may make it more possible to use Windows like&#8230;well, Windows: Reports from a couple of different forums from this past weekend raised the possibility that Microsoft might be moving toward allowing users to skip booting into the Metro-Style Start menu and instead start their PCs in desktop mode. (Winbeta.org noted the thread about this on April 14.) One of my sources confirmed this is now looking like the plan and added that Microsoft is also considering bringing back the Start button as an option with Windows Blue. Ever since it first became clear that Microsoft planned to eliminate the classic Start button and didn&#8217;t intend to let Windows 8 users boot directly into the desktop, I&#8217;ve assumed that the odds were pretty good that it would eventually back down. The company says that usability research proves that folks quickly learn Windows 8 and don&#8217;t find it confusing. But these two changes in particular added up to a convenient excuse to avoid Windows 8 &#8212; and have therefore hurt Microsoft as much as they have Windows users. Or is there even one person out there who wants to argue that bringing back the Start button and letting people boot into the desktop &#8212; as options &#8212; is a bad idea?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160314&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, PC Industry: You&#8217;ve Apparently Managed to Perfect the PC</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/11/sorry-pc-industry-youve-apparently-managed-to-perfect-the-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research firm IDC (which is part of my former employer, IDG) has released new numbers on PC sales, and there&#8217;s only one way to describe them: they&#8217;re uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly. How ugly? Worldwide shipments in the first quarter were down 13.9% over the first quarter of 2012. That&#8217;s not only worse than IDC&#8217;s already gloomy expectations — it&#8217;s the biggest drop since 1994, when the company started publishing these quarterly figures. It&#8217;s tempting to blame the bad news on Windows 8, but it can&#8217;t shoulder all the guilt — IDC said Apple is shipping fewer Macs these days too, so it&#8217;s conventional personal computers in general that are suffering from doldrums, not ones based on a particular operating system. Are people not buying Windows PCs and Macs because they&#8217;re spending their dough on iPads and other tablets instead? Well, maybe. It&#8217;s worth noting that in December 2009, right before the iPad was announced, IDC said it expected PC sales in 2013 to be growing by double digits. (That&#8217;s yet more evidence that trying to predict long-term sales of technology products is not an inexact science, but a hopeless one.) I can&#8217;t help but think, though, that the first signs that the PC market might be maxing out came in early 2007, before Windows 8, the iPad or even the iPhone had any influence on the business. That&#8217;s when Microsoft released Windows Vista, and an enormous number of consumers and businesses responded by saying, essentially, &#8220;No thanks, we&#8217;re perfectly happy with Windows XP.&#8221; Even today, almost a dozen years after XP&#8217;s release, the company is trying to convince a fair chunk of the PC-using world that it didn&#8217;t perfect the PC operating system back in 2001. It&#8217;s not just that people are stubbornly refusing to see newer versions of Windows as superior to older versions of Windows. Back in the 1990s and early years of this century, PC hardware was getting better at such a rapid clip that new PCs were often far better than the machine you&#8217;d bought two or three years earlier. Today,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159948&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue and the Rise of Ultramobiles</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/windows-blue-and-the-rise-of-ultramobiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very important industry forecast from Gartner that came out last week, which basically said that we would continue to see a decline in traditional PC and laptop demand and instead see huge growth in tablets and smartphones. However, they had another growth segment in the forecast that&#8217;s quite interesting: They predict that the industry will sell 25 million ultramobile devices this year and up to 96 million in 2017. If you have seen a Microsoft Surface Pro or a large tablet with a screen that detaches from a keyboard, these are what some PC makers call ultramobile devices. We also see smaller-screen clamshell notebooks being defined as ultramobiles as well. While laptops in the traditional sense, they are fully functional mobile devices that in most cases can be used for media consumption as well as productivity. While this segment is still a small part of the PC market today, Gartner believes that they will be a major part of the PC market over the next two years. I believe this forecast for ultramobile devices is actually conservative. The reason is that later this year, Microsoft will introduce an upgrade to Windows 8, code named Windows Blue, and it will be quite an important update to the current version of the company&#8217;s PC operating system. For the first time, Windows 8 will be able to be used on smaller tablets in the seven- to eight-inch range, which will finally let Microsoft compete directly with Apple’s iPad Mini and the smaller tablets from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Samsung, among others. At Creative Strategies, we are forecasting that by 2015, tablets eight inches and smaller will account for about 65% of all tablets sold worldwide. But the ultramobile device form factors for which Windows Blue could really boost market demand are the ones that could sport 11.1- or 11.6-inch touchscreens and be designed like a more traditional laptop, although quite thin and light in actual design. Some will be clamshells, while some will have detachable screens. People aware<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159729&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Paves Way for Smaller Windows 8 Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/29/microsoft-paves-way-for-smaller-windows-8-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is apparently making room for smaller Windows 8 tablets that could compete with devices like Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire and Apple&#8217;s iPad Mini. As spotted by Ed Bott at ZDNet, Microsoft&#8217;s certification guidelines for Windows 8 now allow for tablets with resolutions as low as 1024-by-768. That&#8217;s the same screen resolution and aspect ratio as the iPad Mini, and while Microsoft doesn&#8217;t exactly say it&#8217;s inviting smaller Windows 8 tablets, you can read between the lines: This doesn&#8217;t imply that we&#8217;re encouraging partners to regularly use a lower screen resolution. In fact, we see customers embracing the higher resolution screens that make a great Windows experience. We understand that partners exploring designs for certain markets could find greater design flexibility helpful. Smaller tablets have become popular in recent months because of their lower prices and greater portability. Market research groups IHS and DisplaySearch see 7- and 8-inch tablets as growing faster than larger screen sizes, possibly overtaking larger tablet sales in the next year or two. But at the moment, no sub-10-inch Windows 8 tablets exist, possibly because of the minimum 1366-by-768 resolution Microsoft requires for certification. On smaller displays, that widescreen aspect ratio would make the screen seem too skinny. The relaxed requirements allow for tablets that would run wider in portrait mode, or taller in landscape mode. There is one big drawback, though: Tablets that drop below 1366-by-768 won&#8217;t be able to use Windows 8&#8242;s Snap feature, which lets a second Windows Store app run in a sidebar next to the main app. Snap is one of the most useful and unique features of Windows 8, and although Microsoft will require tablet makers to disclose the lack of Snap, without it, smaller Windows tablets will lack a major selling point over other cheap tablets. The other problem is that if tablet makers start putting out 1024-by-768 Windows tablets, they&#8217;ll essentially be competing with last year&#8217;s iPad Mini. All signs point to Apple launching a Retina-display iPad Mini later this year, and it&#8217;s likely that other tablet makers will bump<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159227&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue Leak Brings More Evidence of the Desktop&#8217;s Decline</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/25/windows-blue-leak-brings-more-evidence-of-desktops-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For desktop diehards who thought the next version of Windows might roll back some of Windows 8’s sweeping changes, keep dreaming. Windows Blue, an update to Windows 8 that will reportedly launch this year, has leaked onto the Internet. Features include new Modern-style apps such as Sound Recorder and Calculator, easier home-screen customization, the ability to make app tiles even smaller or larger and an expanded Snap view that lets each app cover half the screen. Paul Thurrott has good overviews here and here. Engadget has a whole bunch of screenshots. The most noticeable — and the most positive — change is the dwindling importance of the traditional desktop. Don&#8217;t worry, the desktop isn&#8217;t going away in Windows Blue, but it doesn&#8217;t seem as vital as it is in Windows 8 and Windows RT. Exhibit A is the handful of new apps that will be built into Windows Blue, particularly Calculator and Sound Recorder. By creating these Modern-style apps, Microsoft is duplicating core programs that are currently desktop-only. A more significant example is the expansion of the Modern-style PC Settings menu to include things that used to reside only in the desktop Control Panel. These expanded options include default-app controls, time-and-language settings, display options and network settings. Microsoft may also be building sync options for SkyDrive into the Modern-style interface, so you don&#8217;t have to go to the desktop to choose which files are stored in the cloud. The net result will be fewer mandatory shifts between the Modern-style interface and the desktop, and less of a feeling like Windows 8’s big changes are merely superficial. This is especially important for tablets, on which the desktop is a cumbersome tool, but it also makes the new interface more practical for laptops and desktop PCs. WinForum.eu For people who aren&#8217;t power users, the new interface in Windows 8 is a simpler alternative to the desktop. The Windows Store provides a safe place for useful, eye-catching apps, and features like Snap and search are more intuitive than their desktop analogues ever were. Windows<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158804&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Haven&#8217;t Given Up on Windows 8 as a Concept</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/07/why-i-havent-given-up-on-windows-8-as-a-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reviews for Microsoft&#8216;s Surface Windows 8 Pro are in, and they&#8217;re less than enthusiastic. Even in the most positive reviews, a common thread of complaints come up: Battery life is weak, critics say, and the hardware is thick and heavy compared to most tablets. When propped up like a laptop, the Surface Pro is tricky to use in cramped quarters, due to its wide stance, single angle of incline and floppy keyboard covers. My colleague Harry McCracken&#8217;s Surface Pro review sums it up: If I were shopping for an Ultrabook and my budget allowed, I’d consider it. But used with the applications I tried, Surface Pro doesn’t prove that one computing device can do everything well. Instead, it makes clear that there’s no such thing as no-compromise computing. That’s not the lesson Microsoft intended, but it’s a useful one nonetheless — for consumers, for the industry and maybe even for Microsoft. It&#8217;s easy to chalk up these reviews as evidence that Microsoft can&#8217;t pull off a single operating system for all kinds of hardware. But as someone who&#8217;s always liked the idea of Windows 8, I look at it a different way: The right hardware hasn&#8217;t arrived yet. Note that most Surface Pro reviews didn&#8217;t take umbrage with the software. The biggest problems with Surface Pro&#8211;its battery life and its bulkiness&#8211;are a result of the processor inside of it. Intel&#8216;s Core processors aren&#8217;t meant for tablets. They&#8217;re too power hungry, so they need big batteries and fans for ventilation. A tablet can&#8217;t accommodate those needs while staying reasonably thin and light. Microsoft could have used Intel&#8217;s Clover Trail-based Atom processor instead. But while Atom chips allow for slimmer tablets and longer battery life, they&#8217;re still too underpowered to handle everything Windows 8 has to offer. Jared Newman / TIME.com So part of my hope for Windows 8 is tangled up in Intel&#8217;s product roadmap. A future version of Atom, called Bay Trail, promises more computing muscle and even slimmer devices without sacrificing battery life. Meanwhile, the next version of Intel&#8217;s laptop processors, called<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156293&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Microsoft Surface Pro, the Surface That&#8217;s More PC than Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/05/review-microsoft-surface-pro-the-surface-thats-more-pc-than-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you reinvent the PC for the tablet era? Microsoft, not surprisingly, has been spending a lot of time mulling over that question in recent years. Its touch-centric new operating system, Windows 8, is largely devoted to answering it. And for the first time, the company decided to show us exactly what it thinks a modern PC-tablet hybrid should be by designing and selling its own Windows computer, Surface. Except it didn&#8217;t come up with one Surface — it built two of them. The first version, Surface Windows RT, shipped in October, simultaneously with Windows 8. Technically speaking, however, it isn&#8217;t a Windows 8 machine: it uses a power-efficient ARM processor and a special version of Windows called Windows RT that only runs new programs designed for the touch-friendly &#8220;modern&#8221; interface, not all the apps written for conventional PCs. Starting at $499, it&#8217;s the closest thing Microsoft has to a direct iPad competitor. And then there&#8217;s Surface Windows 8 Pro, which goes on sale at the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, microsoft.com and elsewhere on Feb. 9. (That&#8217;s Microsoft&#8217;s full official name for it; I hope the company won&#8217;t be irked if I refer to it as &#8220;Surface Pro,&#8221; like everyone else is already doing.) It has much in common with Surface RT: hold one Surface in each hand, and the only hint that they&#8217;re not the same device is the Pro version&#8217;s additional bulk — it&#8217;s 0.53 in. (1.3 cm) thick and weighs 2 lb. (0.9 kg), vs. Surface RT&#8217;s 0.37 in. (0.9 cm) and 1.5 lb. (0.7 kg). Both versions have an elegant vapor-magnesium case and kickstand that props it up for vertical use, and both work with the same whisper-thin Touch Cover, which includes a keyboard that&#8217;s nearly flat yet reasonably comfy. Both have 10.6-in. (27 cm) screens, though the Pro&#8217;s version, at 1920-by-1080 resolution, packs additional pixels. But Surface Pro, unlike Surface RT, is a real PC. As its name indicates, it comes with Windows 8 Pro, Microsoft&#8217;s top-of-the-line operating system. It sports a powerful Intel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156199&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acer Iconia W510 Review: A Weak Windows 8 Tablet with a Dealbreaker Dock</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/24/acer-iconia-w510-review-a-weak-windows-8-tablet-with-a-dealbreaker-dock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the entire first wave of Windows 8 hybrids that launched late last year, Acer&#8217;s Iconia W510 was the one that interested me most. With a 10.1-inch screen, it&#8217;s smaller than all the other hybrids, and more manageable when used as a tablet. When plugged into its dock, the W510 becomes a small laptop (a netbook, if you will), with a keyboard, trackpad, a full-sized USB port and extended battery life. The W510 is also a bit cheaper than some other Windows 8 hybrids, at $750 for the 64 GB version and dock, or $500 for a 32 GB tablet alone. It&#8217;s all the more heartbreaking, then, that Acer&#8217;s Iconia W510 isn&#8217;t very good. As a tablet, it feels underpowered, unable to play even some basic games like Jetpack Joyride at consistently smooth framerates. As a laptop, it&#8217;s even worse, not only because of a weak processor and meager amount of memory, but because of a glaring flaw in the dock&#8217;s trackpad, which I&#8217;ll talk about later. The W510 looks cool, at least. The tablet, while not as slim as an iPad or some Android tablets, feels so much more inviting to hold than Windows 8 tablets with 11.6-inch displays. The mechanism by which the tablet connects to the W510 keyboard dock has a clever design: The tablet slides right into the dock&#8217;s wide brace, and automatically latches on. To remove the tablet from the dock, you just slide a little latch on the front of the brace, and pull the tablet up. Although the tablet does wobble in its brace if you jiggle it, the laptop hinge is stiff enough to keep the screen upright at any angle. Jared Newman / TIME.com But that&#8217;s where the solid design ends. Both the tablet and the dock are made of cheap plastic, and the tablet itself is particularly flimsy. Hold it in both hands and flex gently, and you can watch the whole thing bend out of shape. When the tablet and dock are connected, the entire construction becomes screen-heavy, so<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155481&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Pricing Goes Back to Normal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/18/windows-8-pricing-goes-back-to-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many things about Windows 8 which is new is its pricing. When Microsoft released the operating-system upgrade in October, it let PC owners upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 &#8212; a much, much lower pricetag than Windows has historically carried. It was so cheap that if you were the least bit intrigued by Windows 8, the cost was unlikely to prevent you from taking the plunge. But Microsoft said all along that the $39.99 price was a special offer, good only through January 31. And now Windows&#8217; official blogger, Brandon Le Blanc, is confirming that the deal is ending. As of February 1, Windows 8 Pro will be a $199.99 upgrade, and the slightly more basic Windows 8 will be $119.99. When Microsoft announced the cheap introductory price, I thought it would probably turn into a permanent recalibration of the price of Windows &#8212; in the tech world, it&#8217;s pretty rare that the cost of anything goes up. I was wrong. But since Microsoft is simply following the plan it announced months ago, it&#8217;s a mistake to obsess over how the price hike relates to Windows 8&#8242;s sales so far. (The company keeps saying it&#8217;s doing well, but third-party reports tend to involve it getting off to a sluggish start.) And upgrades of existing PCs, while important to Microsoft, aren&#8217;t nearly as important as sales of new PCs with Windows 8 pre-installed, so the pricing experiment was never going to make or break the new OS. Still, I wonder: If the $39.99 offer had led to an unprecedented explosion of interest in Windows 8, would Microsoft have extended the deal indefinitely? It would have had to sell an awful lot of copies to make up for the $160 reduction in profit compared to the full price of $199.99.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155334&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Razer Edge Hands-On: A Modular Tablet for PC Gamers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/razer-edge-hands-on-a-modular-tablet-for-pc-gamers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For north of $1,500, the Razer Edge could be your next tablet, game console, laptop and desktop &#8212; and a way to play high-end PC games from pretty much anywhere. Razer, which has dabbled in making its own PCs but is mostly known for gaming peripherals, has spent the last year refining its concept for a powerful gaming tablet. We first got a glimpse of this concept, formerly dubbed &#8220;Project Fiona,&#8221; at CES 2012, when Razer showed off a tablet with game control handles attached to its sides. The idea was to bring portability to the kinds of games people play at home, like Call of Duty and Skyrim. The Razer Edge is the end result of Razer&#8217;s experiments. &#8220;We wanted something that wasn&#8217;t Angry Birds,&#8221; said Min-Liang Tan, Razer&#8217;s CEO, co-founder and creative director. Jared Newman / TIME.com The Edge, which starts at $1,000, is a 10.1-inch Windows 8 tablet that&#8217;s twice as thick as Apple&#8216;s iPad, and 25 percent heavier, but much more powerful. Inside, Razer&#8217;s managed to pack an Intel Core i5 processor, an Nvidia GT640M graphics card, 4 GB of RAM and a 64 GB solid state drive. For players who need even more power, there&#8217;s a $1,300 &#8220;Pro&#8221; version with a Core i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM and either a 128 GB or 256 GB solid state drive. But the tablet alone isn&#8217;t the whole story. The Razer Edge is a modular device, able to take on different forms through extra peripherals. Foremost, there&#8217;s a $250 gaming controller, which wraps around the tablet and provides a pair of grips on either side, each with their own thumbsticks, triggers and buttons. Also, a $100 docking station provides HDMI output and three USB ports for external controllers, turning the Razer Edge into a desktop PC or living room game console. In the third quarter, Razer will sell a $200 keyboard dock, which collapses shut like a laptop. The whole package isn&#8217;t cheap, but then again most gaming laptops aren&#8217;t, and the whole point of the Razer Edge is that it&#8217;s a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154621&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Targus Touch Pen Enables Touch Input on Non-Touchscreen Laptops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Touch Pen for Windows 8, Targus has found a way to welcome old laptops to the touchscreen party. The pen enables touch input on Windows 8 laptops that don&#8217;t have touchscreens. Users must clip a small receiver to the side of the laptop, then perform a one-time calibration to tell the device where the edges of the screen are located. After that, the pen can be used like a finger for tapping, scrolling or drawing on the screen. The pen itself has a soft, almost brush-like bristle that&#8217;s designed not to harm the laptop&#8217;s display, and it can attach to a magnet on the receiver for storage when it&#8217;s not in use. It supports screen sizes up to 17 inches. The Touch Pen had some issues in my brief demo. When scrolling across the Start screen, the system would occasionally fail to detect the entire pen stroke, which in turn caused Windows 8 to register a tap and accidentally open unwanted applications. And while the pen does detect the Windows 8 charms bar gesture, in which you swipe from the right edge of the screen to bring up a set of options, getting this gesture to activate usually took me a few tries. Targus has some time to work out the kinks &#8212; it&#8217;s planning to launch the Touch Pen in the second quarter of this year &#8212; but at a price of $100, new PC buyers shouldn&#8217;t think of this as a cheaper alternative to a proper touchscreen laptop. The Touch Pen may be a good solution for older machines, but only if Targus can improve the gesture recognition and touch responsiveness before launch. MORE: Check out TIME Tech’s complete coverage of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154464&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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