Microsoft is leaning toward adding more social analytics and data-enrichment components to its Dynamics CRM update due in the latter half of this year....

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Google's Google TV software, available on set-top boxes and TVs from the likes of Sony, Samsung, LG and Vizio, includes a feature to search the Web using voice commands spoken into a Google TV app found on handsets running Google's Android operating system or Apple's iPhone. At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January, Samsung and LG showed off motion-sensing remote controls that feature built-in microphones for voice search that will arrive in stores later this year. But for now, Google's voice input is limited to searching the Web and not changing the channel. But that, too, is likely to change soon....

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Even the Windows logo itself hasn't escaped Microsoft's need for change. As expected, critics have weighed in on Microsoft's decision to adopt a more Metro-themed design for the Windows 8 logo instead of the traditional four-color, curvy boxes found in previous Windows logos....

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Since its introduction in Windows 2000, Multilingual User Interface technology, or MUI, has allowed customers to install additional display languages on their Windows PCs and to switch between them. But for the majority of users, the language you got when you booted up your Windows PC for the first time was likely the one you were stuck with. For Windows 8, we have reimagined the display language experience, focusing on making additional display languages available to all Windows users, making them super easy to find and install, and allowing users to switch between them. This blog entry unveils the changes we’ve been making in Windows to achieve this....

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