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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: Undoing a Mistake Is Never a Mistake</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/windows-blue-undoing-a-mistake-is-never-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was confused by Microsoft&#8217;s decision to remove the Start button from Windows 8, and make it impossible to boot directly to the classic Windows desktop. But I&#8217;m equally confused by the notion that there&#8217;s any downside to Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Windows Blue undoing those bold-but-bad decisions, as it now seems likely it may. So I&#8217;m glad to see that at least one smart Windows watcher &#8212; ZDnet&#8217;s Mary Jo Foley &#8212; has the same take: Windows Blue, from all leaks and tips I&#8217;ve received, is not a do-over. (If it were, it would take Microsoft a lot longer than nine or ten months to deliver it.) And ignoring customer confusion isn&#8217;t a virtue; it&#8217;s stupidity. This armchair pundit finds it refreshing to hear Windows honchos admit that Windows 8 isn&#8217;t selling as well as they hoped and that they want to make its successor more comfortable, familiar and usable for the Windows installed base.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162626&#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>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>10 Games to Watch for Late Spring 2013</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/10-games-to-watch-for-late-spring-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<title>Michael Mace on the PC Industry&#8217;s Woes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/michael-mace-on-the-pc-industrys-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity has blogged at length about the proposed buyout(s) which would take PC behemoth Dell private. If, like me, you don&#8217;t care much about whether Dell is public or private, that might sound tedious. But it&#8217;s actually a wonderful, wonderfully insightful read, because Mace&#8217;s real topic is the future of the PC business &#8212; especially the Windows PC business &#8212; in general. Along the way, he also says something about business and punditry which we should all keep in mind every time we read anyone&#8217;s analysis of anything: The problem with analyzing a company’s motivations is that you tend to assume there’s a logical explanation for the things it did. Often there’s not. Company managers are frequently fearful or misinformed, and sometimes they just make dumb mistakes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160824&#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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=159729</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://timenerdworld.wordpress.com/?p=155334</guid>
		<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>Microsoft Surface: The Price Is Out but Mysteries Remain</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/16/microsoft-surface-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's still far from a given whether Windows RT will have what it takes to be an even modestly successful alternative to the iPad juggernaut, but the Surface hardware looks like it's the thoroughly polished product Microsoft worked so very hard to create. If people don't want Windows RT on a device this nice, it's hard to imagine that they'll want it on anything.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148412&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Allen Reviews Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/02/paul-allen-reviews-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's co-founder has published a review of the company's next operating system. It's a surprisingly meaty read.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147534&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Experts on Microsoft&#8217;s New Logo: It&#8217;s Good! Or Bad!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/24/the-experts-on-microsofts-new-logo-its-good-or-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One branding pro thinks Microsoft's taken a serious step in the right direction. The other says the new design is a snoozer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143964&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Swaps Its Logo for the First Time in a Quarter of a Century</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/23/microsoft-swaps-its-logo-for-the-first-time-in-a-quarter-of-a-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just rolled out the most significant change to its iconic corporate logo since 1987, trading curves for straight lines and black-and-white for vivid colors.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143850&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Surface RT Tablet for $199? Let&#8217;s Be Realistic</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/16/microsoft-surface-rt-tablet-for-199-lets-be-realistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=142849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tablets priced at $200 aren't unheard of. That's the selling price for Google's Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes &#38; Noble's Nook Tablet. Instead of making money on the hardware, they all hope to profit on sales of apps and content. Maybe Microsoft could pursue a similar strategy with the Surface RT tablet. The problem is that the Surface RT will be a lot more expensive to build than any of those 7-inch tablets. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=142849&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metro No More: Windows&#8217; New Interface Suffers Trademark Woes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/02/metro-no-more-windows-new-interface-suffers-trademark-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=141473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A German retailer is reportedly unhappy with the name of Windows 8's snappy new user interface.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141473&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows that Generate Electricity from Invisible Light? Is This the Future or What?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/24/windows-that-generate-electricity-from-invisible-light-is-this-the-future-or-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=140246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine windows or portable electronic device screens that can generate electricity by absorbing light not visible to the human eye while remaining translucent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=140246&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARM vs. Intel: How the Processor Wars Will Benefit Consumers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/16/arm-vs-intel-how-the-processor-wars-will-benefit-consumers-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=132808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been an important new development in the processor world lately. The folks behind the ARM processor -- the chip that powers most smartphones and tablets today -- decided to scale up this processor technology to run at speeds that could be used in advanced tablets and more importantly, laptops and even desktops.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=132808&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Tablets to Consider for Windows 8&#8242;s October Launch</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/10/windows-8-in-late-october-6-tablets-to-watch-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=138578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To go along with Windows 8's touch-friendly interface, PC makers will be launching tablets, touchscreen laptops and hybrid devices. Here's a rundown of the most interesting Windows 8 PCs we've heard about so far.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=138578&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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