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Mobile Internet usage has surpassed desktop usage in China, but will the mobile trend really be able to kick laptops and PCs into the dustbin of history?

 If you held off the original Surface launch for fear of Windows RT, then the full Windows 8 Pro version is just around the corner with beefier specifications and the full-fat OS.

Advances in an artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning are helping companies like Microsoft and Nuance create powerful speech analytics and voice recognition software at a much quicker pace than ever before.

Is there no future for blockbuster OS releases? If not, Microsoft has a plan, Windows Blue will evolve the current Windows desktop as a regularly updated platform beyond mere Service Packs. 

       Both classes of Windows Phone, the  7 and 8 OS powered devices will be getting updates in the near future. WP8 devices are getting a fix for the random reboot issue, while Windows Phone 7 users will finally get the big update to 7.8 that represents Microsoft's peace offering to those left behind. 

       Perhaps in response to stories about slow user adoption, Microsoft is letting out a little sales information on Windows 8, which has been out in the wild for a month now. 

Microsoft is changing its SharePoint Client Access License structure and raising fees by 15% starting December 1. Maybe it's not too late to convince Microsoft to call it off?

Windows 8 might be on many shelves inside new PCs, Surface tablets and via cheap upgrades, but the public isn't buying it in massive numbers, at least not yet. 

US mobile phone carriers dole out smartphone software upgrades like a miserly old curmudgeon, and now Microsoft seems to have joined their ranks by announcing a Windows Phone 7.8 update in June, and then going silent on the issue ever since.

There have been a number of announcements in the GRC space recently, especially in e-Discovery. Among them are the new e-Discovery capabilities in Office 2013 and the release of OpenText’s InfoFusion. Otherwise, Modus releases Early Insights, LockPath upgrades Keylight, while Catalyst and Rimkus partner.

This week, even with the Thanksgiving Weekend, there are still a few notable releases, particularly in the mobile space. EMC, for example, offers workers the possibility of making their presentations mobile, while Alfresco upgrades its iOS app. Also this week, Microsoft is offering a free trial of Office 2013 Professional Pro, while docStar upgrades Eclipse.

Semantic search provider Smartlogic is ready to integrate its Semaphore platform into Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013, and upgrades include more ontology related Web parts and better multi-farm support for large-scale deployments.

Anyone who has purchased or tested Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system can tell you the system is confusing. But just how poorly has Microsoft fared with its biggest Windows overhaul in nearly two decades? 

A variety of IT vendors debuted add-on solutions that bring functionality including mobile, cloud and collaboration features to SharePoint at last week’s SharePoint Conference held in Las Vegas, NV. Solution providers making noteworthy announcements included Workshare, Colligo, Nintex and Axceler.

At this year's SharePoint Conference I took the opportunity to put the Surface device to the test. Instead of dragging around my laptop I wanted to see how well the Surface would do to fulfill my computer needs for the week. I was pleasantly surprised.