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Gaze Control Lets You Use Windows 8 with Your Eyes

Keyboards are so yesterday, or at least that’s what Tobii would like you to think. Simply put “Swedish ‘eye tracking’ experts Tobii are to unveil a ‘Gaze’ eye controller for the MicrosoftR...

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Microsoft Research Develops Touchable, 360-Degree Holographic Display

Microsoft Research has developed an innovative, touchable, 360-degree holographic display. That’s right, “since there’s no glass or spinning parts or anything mechanical surrounding the hologram itself, you ca...

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5 Stunning Art Masterpieces You Won’t Believe Were Created with Microsoft Excel

Most Windows users known Microsoft Excel as “a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X; it features calculation, graphing tools, pivot table...

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Bill Gates’ Hidden Talent Revealed

If Bill Gates didn’t become a billionaire and start Microsoft, he just might have competed in the Olympics as a high jumper. Let’s just say he has a hidden talent that involves an office chair and *hops*. Keep readi...

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Rare Look Inside Microsoft’s Redmond Office

You’ve seen what the offices of Blizzard and Google look like, now here’s a sneak peak at some parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The “grounds comprise over 300 acres, with about 40 buildings housing n...

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Windows 8 Tablet Edition Gets Previewed

Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 Tablet Edition today, and it comes complete with a “Metro Style UI”. This equates to “live tiles, hidden menus and controls, large, flashy graphics, bold white type, [and] multi-to...

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10 Amazing Microsoft Paint Drawings

For those who only know of Photoshop, Microsoft Paint is essentially a program that “opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without a...

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Places Where You Shouldn’t See the BSOD

If you’ve used any version of Windows, the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) has probably shown up on your display at least once. Here are a few places where you should never see the BSOD, starting with the Coca-Cola vending ma...

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