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Posted 03/11/2013 at 1:40pm | by David Murphy

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It hurts us to say it, but freeware can’t cover every situation. We've rounded up a Selection of software and web services that deserve your dollars

We’re huge fans of freeware at Maximum PC. Why pay for expensive software when a perfectly reasonable and fully functioning piece of freeware exists as a compelling alternative?

Note: This article appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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Microsoft Offer Allows Students to Test Drive Office 365 for Up to Six Months

Posted 03/11/2013 at 9:17am | by Paul Lilly

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Starting today, students with a qualifying email address can try Office 365 for half a year.

Between books, tuition, and booze, going to college is an expensive proposition. It's understandable, then, if students aren't particularly anxious to sign up for a monthly subscription fee for Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite, but when you start throwing around the world "free," it's a good way to get their attention. And so it goes, Microsoft today is offering to let students with a qualifying .edu email address try out Office 365 for an entire semester.

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Microsoft to Offer Price Cuts for Windows 8 PCs

Posted 03/08/2013 at 10:11am | by Paul Lilly

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Price cuts for touchscreen laptops running Windows 8 will reportedly be as high as 20 percent.

If you were planning to rush out and purchase a Windows 8 PC this weekend, you may want to hold off for a bit, or least hang onto your receipt in case the model you're interested in receives a discount after the fact. Price cuts for Windows 8 PCs are en route, though depending on which report you read, Microsoft has already started doling out the savings. Let's have a look.

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Rumor: Microsoft to Update Some First-Party Windows 8 Apps This Month

Posted 03/08/2013 at 8:08am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Windows 8 users may not have to wait until “Blue” for much-needed improvements to core apps

Tami Reller, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Windows at Microsoft, last month admitted in an interview with ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley that first-party Windows 8 apps are far from perfect in their current state. Now the veteran scribe is reporting that updates to first-party apps bundled with Windows 8 might be available much earlier than previously believed.

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Microsoft: Go Ahead and Transfer Office 2013 to Another PC

Posted 03/06/2013 at 10:23am | by Paul Lilly

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Reacting to user feedback, Microsoft changed its policy regarding Office 2013 license transfers.

It's been said the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and what better place to make a commotion than the Internet? That's what happened a couple of weeks ago when Microsoft confirmed in a blog post that Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional versions of Office 2013 would be tied to a single PC and non-transferable, even if your PC breaks post-warranty or if you buy a new one. Bummer, right? Not anymore.

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E.U. Slaps Microsoft with $731 Million Fine Over Botched Browser Ballot

Posted 03/06/2013 at 7:42am | by Paul Lilly

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A "technical error" related to a Windows Service Pack ends up costing Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

It was rumored the European Union wanted to close its investigation into Microsoft's "browser ballot" screw-up and levy a fine before Easter break, a mission it's now achieved with weeks to spare. E.U. regulators decided to punish Microsoft to the tune of €561 million, or a little more than $731 million in U.S. currency, for failing to comply with an agreement to provide users with a browser choice screen (the so-called browser ballot) upon firing up Windows for the first time.

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Microsoft May Owe Denmark More Than $1 Billion in Back Taxes

Posted 03/04/2013 at 11:16am | by Paul Lilly

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An acquisition Microsoft made more than a decade ago could result in a massive tax bill in Denmark.

Everyone has their own reasons for hating Mondays, but no matter how long your work week is looking right about now, at least you didn't wake up this morning to a $1 billion tax bill. Microsoft did, or so says DR News, a news outlet based in Denmark. According to the report, Microsoft owes the Danish Treasury a total of 5.8 billion kroner (about $1.01 billion) related to a 2002 acquisition of Navision, a Danish software company.

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Google Chrome Loses Market Share To Internet Explorer

Posted 03/03/2013 at 7:23pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving.

For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have done so largely at the expense of Google Chrome. In February IE climbed 0.68 points to 55.82 percent. Chrome dropped 1.21 percent, and Firefox rocketed above 20 percent to settle at 16.27 and 20.12 percent respectively.

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iFixit Compiles Tablet Reparability List – Apple & Microsoft Duke it Out for Worst of the Worst

Posted 03/03/2013 at 12:57pm | by Justin Kerr

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The best tablets on the market are also the worst to drop.

Here at Maximum PC we love to strip machines down and rebuild them just to see what makes it tick, but with modern gadgets that isn’t always easy. Screws have been replaced by glue, and the simple pleasures of popping the cover off to perform upgrades seems to be a lost art. iFixit has emerged as the Internet’s ultimate authority on gadget reparability, and its newly updated list of tablets puts both Microsoft and Apple fighting for the distinction as worlds least fixable tablet.

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Internet Explorer 10 Now Available for Windows 7

Posted 02/26/2013 at 8:47am | by Paul Lilly

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Internet Explorer 10 delivers a 20 percent increase in real-world site performance versus IE9, Microsoft says.

Microsoft may have taken its sweet time porting Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) over to Windows 7, but it's finally finished and ready for mass consumption. IE10 is available to download worldwide in 95 languages, with Microsoft planning to auto-update Windows 7 customers to its latest browser in the coming weeks, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview.

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It hurts us to say it, but freeware can’t cover every situation. We've rounded up a Selection of software and web services that deserve your dollars

Starting today, students with a qualifying email address can try Office 365 for half a year.

Price cuts for touchscreen laptops running Windows 8 will reportedly be as high as 20 percent.

Windows 8 users may not have to wait until “Blue” for much-needed improvements to core apps

Reacting to user feedback, Microsoft changed its policy regarding Office 2013 license transfers.

A "technical error" related to a Windows Service Pack ends up costing Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

An acquisition Microsoft made more than a decade ago could result in a massive tax bill in Denmark.

Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving.

The best tablets on the market are also the worst to drop.

Internet Explorer 10 delivers a 20 percent increase in real-world site performance versus IE9, Microsoft says.

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