Microsoft (MSFT) Recaps Key Announcements from Today's Windows 10 Event

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Privacy group launches legal challenge against EU-U.S. data pact

October 26, 2016 2:23 PM EDT

By Julia Fioretti and Dustin Volz

BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A widely expected legal challenge has been filed by an Irish privacy advocacy group to an EU-U.S. commercial data transfer pact underpinning billions of dollars of trade in digital services just two months after it came into force.

The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was agreed earlier this year after the European Union's highest court struck down the previous Safe Harbour agreement over the transfer of Europeans' personal data to the United States, on concerns about intrusive U.S. surveillance.

The new agreement gives businesses moving... More

Microsoft (MSFT) Debuts New Surface Studio PC, Windows 10 Updates

October 26, 2016 12:33 PM EDT

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) unveiled a broad vision to empower a new wave of creativity with a major update coming to more than 400 million Windows 10 devices and the introduction of Surface Studio, Surface Dial and a more powerful Surface Book.

Expanding the Surface family, Surface Studio is a new class of device that transforms from a workstation into a powerful digital canvas, unlocking a more natural and immersive way to create on the thinnest LCD monitor ever built.1 With a stunning ultra-HD 4.5K screen, Surface Studio delivers 63 percent more pixels than a... More