Microsoft

• Microsoft this week took wraps off its own Surface line of tablets, two years after Apple unveiled iPad and Steve Jobs declared the beginning of post-PC era.
(Economic Times)
• Is Microsoft making its own smartphone? Yes and no. Yes in the sense that the software giant has a hardware group that makes prototype devices - often, these end up helping Microsofts licensees bring hardware to market.
(Yahoo Finance)
• June 22, 2012, 8:30 AM — Earlier this week I posted about an allegedly leaked 56 page document outlying Microsofts Xbox 720 strategy. At the time I questioned whether or not the file was legit.
(IT World)
• Acer, the worlds fourth largest PC maker, has dismissed Microsofts chances of becoming a rival to Apple by building its own devices and urged its software partner to focus on its new operating system instead.
(The Business Insider)
• Reports say that Microsoft may be building its own Windows Phones, in the same way its designing Microsoft-branded Surface tablets. If true, it would be a bad move, because it has Nokia on the hook to do its bidding.
(Computerworld)
• Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday announced that each of the three finalists in its $250,000 BlueHat Prize security contest came up with ways to detect and stymie one of the most effective exploit methods now being used by hackers.
(Computerworld)
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(CNN Money)
• Jun 22, 2012 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Super 8 Hotels (China) Co. Ltd, partner of Super 8 Worldwide in China, chose the powerful business analysis capabilities of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) SQL Server 2012.
(TMCnet)
• While news of Microsoft Corp.'s new "Surface" tablet dominated headlines this week, the technology giant could also have plans for a phone of its own, according to Nomura Equity Research.
(Windsor Star)