Microsoft Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:07:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Microsoft Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Astronauts Return From Year In Space https://teachingkidsnews.com/2016/04/17/astronauts-return-year-space/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2016/04/17/astronauts-return-year-space/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:07:42 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=15239 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth on March 2 after a 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. The nearly one-year mission is the longest amount of time an American astronaut has ever spent in space.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2016/04/17/astronauts-return-year-space/feed/ 1 Microsoft Launches New Tablet To Compete With iPad https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/06/25/2-microsoft-launches-new-tablet-to-compete-with-ipad/ Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:13:20 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=7052 When Apple introduced the iPad tablet, it was unique.

It had a large flat glass viewing screen which you touched to move and open files, it was extremely light and thin, and it had a magnetic cover that not only protected it but it shut it down as well.

When new technology comes along--and proves to be popular and successful--it's not long before other companies try to duplicate it. They try to improve on the other company's product if they can.

That's the case with Microsoft's new tablet called Surface.

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