The first public preview of Windows Server 2012 was also shown by Microsoft at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

Allen's memoir Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft was released on April 19, 2011.

* On July 18, 2011, Microsoft Hotmail banned the password: " 123456.

In February 2011 Nokia announced its decision to drop Symbian technologies and base their future smartphones on Microsoft platform instead.

In May 2011, Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone space again, Microsoft announcing plans that Fujitsu would release Windows Phone devices.

FrameMaker 10 ( 2011 ) again refined the user interface and introduced several changes, including: integration with content management systems via EMC Documentum 6. 5 with Service Pack 1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2.

In May 2011, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Skype for $ 8. 5 billion.

HP announced plans on March 2011 for a version of webOS by the end of 2011 to run within the Microsoft Windows operating system to be used in HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012.

In December 2011, Microsoft released an XMPP interface to the Messenger service.

An extensively reported study from Microsoft Research in 2011 finds that estimates of identity theft losses contain enormous exaggerations, writing that surveys " are so compromised and biased that no faith whatever can be placed in their findings.

In September 2011, Yahoo formed an ad selling strategic partnership with 2 of its top competitors, AOL and Microsoft.

Similarly, in December 2011, Microsoft released an XMPP interface to its. NET Messenger Service.

The project to make " Bang ", the title track off their newest album, the first track in Rock Band to feature full, four-instrument gameplay based on no live or synthesized instruments began in the summer of 2010, and was released for purchase on January 30, 2011 through the RBN for 160 Microsoft Points ($ 1. 99 ).

During the Microsoft press conference at the 2011 E3 Expo, it was revealed that Halo: Combat Evolved would be remade by 343 Industries with an in-house game engine and would include achievements, Terminals, and Skulls.

On February 28, 2011 tech blog Engadget reported Microsoft will discontinue Danger's cloud service on May 31, 2011.

It was announced early in October 2011 that Microsoft formed partnerships with over 50 content providers worldwide, including Manga Entertainment.

The deal paid off in May 2011 when Microsoft bought Skype for $ 8. 5 billion.

A next-generation update of BurgerTime was announced by MonkeyPaw Games for the WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows in late March 2011.

The story of the museum's evolution beginning in the early 1970s with Ken Olsen at Digital Equipment Corporation is described in the Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-44, " Out of a Closet: The Early Years of The Computer * Museum ".< ref > Bell, Gordon ( 4 April 2011 ).

Delphi XE ( aka Delphi 2011, code named Fulcrum ), was released on August 30, 2010. With Delphi support for Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure were bundled.

On 10 May 2011 Skype was purchased by Microsoft for a supposed $ 8. 5 billion in its biggest ever cash deal.

Directive 2011 / 65 / EU, better known as RoHS 2 is a recast of legislation originally introduced in 2002.

In Western Australia, on 8 September 2011 amendments were introduced in the parliament to reform the state's double jeopardy laws.

This kit was only worn three times, including against Germany in the semi final of Euro 96 but the deviation from the traditional red was unpopular with supporters and the England away kit remained red until 2011, when a navy blue away kit was introduced.

In 2011 it underwent another change when the Champions Cup was introduced for the first time.

On September 28, 2011, the Marlins introduced Ozzie Guillén as their new manager.

Following widespread criticisms of the system of ministerial government introduced in December 2005, the States assembly agreed in March 2011 to establish an independent electoral commission to review the make-up of the assembly and government.

* 2011: The Range Rover Evoque introduced

When Arriva commenced operations in July 2011, a new fleet of buses was introduced in a turquoise and cream livery.

In May 2011 Playboy introduced i. playboy. com, a complete, uncensored version of its near 700 issue archive, targeting the Apple iPad.

In 2011, for New York Fashion Week, Diet Pepsi introduced a " skinny " can that is taller and has been described as a " sassier " version of the traditional can that Pepsi says was made in " celebration of beautiful, confident women ".

2011: Appleby stops drawing Roger to focus on Dennis and Gnasher, and Roger's Dodge Diary is introduced alongside Nixon reprints.

The most recent entry in the series is Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS, which was released in December 2011 and introduced aerial and aquatic racing to the series, as well as customizable karts.

The most recent commercial iterations of the SPARC processor design are the Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd .' s " Venus " 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx introduced June 2009, which is used in the 8 petaFLOPS Japanese supercomputer " K computer ", and the SPARC T4 introduced by Oracle Corporation in September 2011 ; both are 8 core devices running at 2. 0GHz and over 2. 5GHz respectively.

On April 24, 2011 five bison were introduced in Pleistocene Park a project of recreating the steppe ecosystem altered 10, 000 years ago

* Sole Star, a low alcohol ( 2. 7 % abv ) amber ale, introduced December 2011

In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests and the worldwide occupy movement calling for U. S. campaign finance reform eliminating corporate influence in politics, among other reforms, Representative Ted Deutch introduced the " Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy " ( OCCUPIED ) constitutional amendment on November 18, 2011.

On November 1, 2011, Senator Tom Udall also introduced a constitutional amendment in Congress to reform campaign finance which would allow Congress and state legislatures to establish public campaign finance.

Two other constitutional campaign finance reform amendments were introduced in Congress in November, 2011.

In 2011, Senators Tom Harkin and Roy Blunt and Representatives Steny Hoyer and Peter King introduced the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act to authorize federal funding for Special Olympics Programs and Best Buddies Programs.

* Hungary introduced a flax tax at 16 % on 1 January 2011.

In 2011 legislation introduced by the AARC will help improve the use of respiratory therapists in clinical applications by allowing them to manage patients suffering from asthma and COPD seeing a clinic for routine checkups.

In 2011, a highly durable Iridium Extreme ( 9575 ) phone was introduced with a built-in GPS emergency button and interface to advanced location based services.

The Iridium Extreme phone introduced in 2011 has a GPS location service embedded in the device, which the user can use to locate themselves or include in SMS messages.