Microsoft's one-PC limit isn't new in Office 2013
Read your licence: the most popular version of Office 2010 could also only be used on a single PC...
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Simon Bisson
Simon Bisson is a freelance technology journalist. He specialises in architecture and enterprise IT. He ran one of the UK's first national ISPs and moved to writing around the time of the collapse of the first dotcom boom. He still writes code.
Mary Branscombe
Mary Branscombe is a freelance tech journalist. Mary has been a technology writer for nearly two decades, covering everything from early versions of Windows and Office to the first smartphones, the arrival of the web and most things inbetween.
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Windows RT's Achilles' heel: Cloud connections
Have you become used to syncing and opening files on SkyDrive? I'm regularly surprised by how much of that doesn't work (yet) on Windows RT.
Tomorrow's robot world: From cleaners to the cloud
Robots are everywhere at this year's CES. But what does the future hold for our 'plastic pals who are fun to be with'?
Essential business travel tech: Speakers, power cells and backup
As we look forward to trudging 30-40 miles around CES (we walked 37.5 miles at CES 2012 according to the Fitbit I was carrying), we've been turning out the bag of travelling technology to see what we can leave behind and what we need to add from recent products we've examined.
Intel, ARM, tablets and desktop: Where is processing going next?
Internal politics and reaching the limits of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling are hitting Intel hard, but the bigger questions are about computing form factors, computing styles - and physics.