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Microsoft to make mystery announcement today at noon PDT

Monday, July 16, 2012 · 10:00 am · 61 Comments

The following is from a Microsoft press release disseminated today, verbatim:

Microsoft Corp. will announce news live from San Francisco via webcast on July 16 at noon PDT:

Microsoft Announcement

When: Monday, July 16, at noon PDT
What: News from Microsoft
Who: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will share the news.
Where: Live via webcast at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news

Source: Microsoft

MacDailyNews Take: Buying beleaguered Nokia, Baller stepping down (Jobs forbid!), buying beleaguered RIM, Surface tablet(s) cancelled, buying beleaguered Dell, Ballmer to join cast of Dancing with the Stars, what do you think?

Categories: News

Tags: microsoft, MSFT, WART, Windows, Windows 8, Windows on ARM RT, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT

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G2

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:05 am · Reply

The new mPhone & mPad perhaps? Because, after all, ‘we believe Apple got it wrong’
- Netcruizer99
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:35 am · Reply
  
  +1
  
  I almost spit my coffee out on my iPad when I read this!
Finelinebob

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:05 am · Reply

Let me guess … They’re buying a controlling interest in Chaquita so Monkey Boy can feed his habit?
RastaMouse

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:05 am · Reply

PowerBook G5?
GwendoBurger

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:06 am · Reply

Microsoft TV – Microsoft leads, Apple follows
Tootsie

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:06 am · Reply

Yep, Microsoft is folding.
Sirian

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:06 am · Reply

Just don’t touch our beloved Ballmer. Everything is good.
- hannahjs
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 11:09 am · Reply
  
  The Committee of Public Safety wishes to make an announcement regarding Marie Antoinette and others, at noon today.
  
  –Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
  - tbone
    
    Monday, July 16, 2012 - 11:54 am · Reply
    
    I was an early investor in the Robespierre Razor Company. I invested the profits in a movie called “Forest Gump”.
XS

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:07 am · Reply

To once again rehash their rediculous PC era BS.
Muad'dib

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:10 am · Reply

Microsoft TV!
- MEES
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 12:24 pm · Reply
  
  Microsoft TV with a keyboard!
  - Tessellator
    
    Monday, July 16, 2012 - 3:44 pm · Reply
    
    I know it’s a huge touchscreen TV , that would be totally ridiculous… and then build it into a coffee table!
    http://yaps.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/surface-microsoft-table.jpg
    oh wait they already did that.
    
    Nevermind…
Michael

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:13 am · Reply

Announce upcoming Office 15 and current beta- Yawn
Ansel

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:14 am · Reply

It is NOT Ballmer stepping down, he is the one making the announcement ….. If he was stepping down, they would not advertise him as announcing, at least I think that way …..

Surface, could not be that, they just did …..

Him, very curious ….. Wonder what it could be???

Thinking something to do with buying somebody or something!
mrbezoar

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:14 am · Reply

They’re so far behind that they think they’re in first place.
Swing Geezer

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:17 am · Reply

Awwwwww. They have a secret. Isn’t that the cutest thing you’ve ever heard?
- macassarus
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:22 am · Reply
  
  Awwwwww. They think they have something new. Isn’t that the cutest thing you’ve ever heard?
Jaxtoon

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:18 am · Reply

A new news service, given Microsoft’s divorce with NBC.
David

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:18 am · Reply

They’re calling it quits! Closing shop!
BlueMeanie71

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:18 am · Reply

Nokia, for sure
Ballmer's left nut

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:21 am · Reply

They’re releasing the iTurd in response to Apple’s iPhone.
Greg

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:22 am · Reply

MSs new strategy, a new announcement every few weeks so they can stay in the news.
Jeff

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:22 am · Reply

They have joined EPEAT and will be a major contributer. EPEAT will be used as a strategic weapon er: partner.
Me

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:25 am · Reply

They’re going to resurrect the Zune under a different name.. Hmmmm Zune iPod = Zod! Yeah! They’ll say “I am Zod!”
- John Smith
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:30 am · Reply
  
  Lol, you’ll say, “Oh my God”, and it’ll answer back, “Not ‘God’… ‘Zod’.”
- B-Sabre
  
  Monday, July 16, 2012 - 12:16 pm · Reply
  
  ‘Kneel before Zod!”
cz

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:30 am · Reply

Microsoft Office 15 (the product number) to be marketed as Microsoft Office 2013 – going into public beta and with shipping dates for one segment of users in Fall 2012 – available for the rest in January 2013.