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    Microsoft trumpets imminent release of Windows 8

    NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is celebrating the imminent release of its revamped Windows operating system after two years of work.

    Windows 8 is the most dramatic overhaul of the personal computer market's dominant operating system in 17 years.

    Microsoft Corp. redesigned it so it will run on increasingly popular tablet computers, as well as PCs. Another version of Windows 8 is being released for smartphones next week.

    The system for PCs and tablets will be available to consumers on Friday. Microsoft executives hailed the occasion at an event in New York on Thursday.

    Microsoft says more than 1,000 PCs have been certified to run Windows 8. In a departure from its usual strategy focused exclusively on software, Microsoft is also selling a tablet called Surface that runs on Windows 8.

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    • Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship

      SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy.

    • Prison for Ohio woman who buried mom in yard

      COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who quit her job to care for her elderly mother felt at a loss to support herself when the older woman died so she buried her in the yard of their Florida home and lived off her mother's Social Security checks for 14 years, her lawyers and federal authorities say.

    • Stacy Keibler: How I Lost Weight Without Working Out

      Stacy Keibler was able to lose weight without even working out - but it was far from easy!

    • Police: Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility

      PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 41-year-old man is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility in Philadelphia.

    • Kim and Kanye's Baby Name Is Not That Strange

      It's being reported that rapper Kanye West and his reality star girlfriend Kim Kardashian have named their brand-new baby, born this weekend, Kaidence Donda West. Donda was Kanye's late mother's name, so that makes sense, but, um, Kaidence? What's going on with Kaidence?

    • Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart

      LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas.

    • Wash. parents' ruse snares man wooing daughter

      SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed on Facebook by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands.

    • Ousted founder of Men's Wearhouse fights back

      NEW YORK (AP) — George Zimmer, the ousted founder and executive chairman of Men's Wearhouse, says Wednesday he was dismissed after he and the company's board disagreed about how it should look.

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