Microsoft will be offering a very low-cost upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for customers who purchase a Windows 7 PC after June 2. According to insider sources of the WinSuperSite, the upgrade will only cost $15 and will help motivate customers who may otherwise hold off on a new purchase until the next-gen platform is released.

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Austin, Texas-based Flextronics is apparently working on a new Microsoft project, and all signs point to it being the next generation version of the Xbox. According to media reports, the company has assigned an entire new testing team for the assignment, and these employees are working behind-closed-doors from the rest of the company. It doesn’t take a genius to try to put those pieces together.

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In the name of better surveillance of suspected criminals, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to pursue a way that could force companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google to make many of their Internet products more easily wiretapped by law enforcement officials.

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In March, Microsoft announced that it had released a security update for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The update contained a fix for a flaw that was discovered in Windows' remote desktop protocol that, if used by hackers, could have allowed them to break into a Windows PC to run malicious code.

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The feature within Xbox Live that allowed gamers to get the latest news and information about the Xbox 360 in an easily digestable video format is no more. Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Inside Xbox feautre from its gaming console, likely due to low user demand. This includes the closure of things like Major’s Minute, Featured Videos, and Insider Moves.

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What if you took the classic cellphone business model and applied it to consoles? Did your mind just explode? Microsoft is certainly hoping it will. The Verge reports that Microsoft will be offering a $99 Xbox 360 and Kinect as part of a two-year subscription starting from next week. The $99 upfront cost would net you the hardware, and you would continue to pay a $15 monthly subscription over the course of two years.

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Microsoft has quashed a glaring bug in its Web-based Hotmail email software that allowed Firefox users to easily reset the password another user’s Hotmail account, effectively locking them out of access to their own email. Luckily, it seems like it was a pretty simple fix because it went from being discovered to being patched in just one day. The company went public with the discovery late last week.

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Ouch. Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the security software firm Kaspersky, accused Apple of having missed the boat on computer security.

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iCloud is well-integrated into Mac OS X and iOS, however it is much less versatile as other cloud services such as Dropbox. Unfortunately, Dropbox doesn’t give you a whole lot of storage without referring many people. Today Microsoft’s cloud service, Skydrive, gets its own Mac client to help it compete with services like Dropbox for Apple users. Until now, Mac users needed to use the Web interface to use SkyDrive. Apart from the client for Mac, Microsoft also released an update for the App Store version of the SkyDrive client for iOS devices.

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Microsoft will release the Windows 8 Release Preview in the first week of June 2012, the company has confirmed, one further step to the new OS’ full release in the second half of the year. The new date was confirmed in Japan at a Windows 8 Dev Day, with Microsoft taking to Twitter to confirm the schedule on its “Building Windows 8″ account.

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