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Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China

2017-07-20 13:30:09| Extremetech

Microsoft is closing its Surface Hub manufacturing facility in Wilsonville, Oregon, barely two years after opening it. Instead of being manufactured in the US, future Surface Hubs will be built in China. The post Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China appeared first on ExtremeTech.

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Microsoft acquires Minecraft for $2.5 billion; Notch moves on to greener pastures

2014-09-15 15:59:41| Extremetech

Microsoft has announced that it will acquire the Minecraft franchise, and its Swedish developer Mojang, for $2.5 billion. Microsoft asserts that it 'plans' to continue distributing Minecraft across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, iOS, and Android, but obviously the game's cross-platform future is called into question by this acquisition. Markus 'Notch' Persson, and Mojang's other two founders, will not be staying with Mojang/Microsoft and will "move on to start new projects."

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Microsoft moves to unify Windows, Windows Phone, Windows RT

2013-11-25 21:27:56| Extremetech

Microsoft's head of devices, Julie Larson-Green, has foretold of a future where there aren't three versions of Windows. Most journalists are taking this to mean that Windows RT is at the end of its short and pitiful life. I think this is bigger than that, though: This is confirmation that all three of Microsoft's operating systems are going to be killed off, replaced with a new, consolidated and unified OS that spans phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.

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Microsoft moves to block MD5 certificates and improve RDP authentication

2013-08-14 14:11:56| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop Protocol. These two updates are separate from important security patches also released Tuesday for Internet Explorer, Windows and Microsoft Exchange Server, and are not yet being pushed through the Windows Update mechanism.

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