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Tag: Windows 8

  1. Microsoft wants Apple to make iTunes for Windows 8 tablets, but it’s not coming ‘any time soon’

    Microsoft wants Apple to create a “Metro” version of iTunes…

  2. About those so-called 100 million Windows 8 sales

    This doesn’t mean that 100 million copies of Windows 8, or anything close to that number…

  3. Microsoft offers no apology for Windows 8, promises better with Windows Blue (Screen of Death)

    With Windows 8, Microsoft ignored the basic tenets of change management…

  4. The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

    Yesterday Bill Gates took some heat in the media when he proclaimed….

  5. Windows 8ista: Microsoft admits failure

    One of the most prominent admissions of failure since Coca-Cola’s New Coke fiasco…

  6. Microsoft cautiously preps 2nd-generation of Surface tablet flops with smaller displays

    Microsoft is expected to announce second-generation Surface tablets…

  7. State of Maine tells schools to buy HP notebooks running Windows 8 instead of Apple Macs

    For the first time since 2002, the State of Maine…

  8. Microsoft partners say Windows 8 caused ‘millions of customers’ to switch to Apple

    With PC sales crashing and burning…

  9. The iPad-sized nail in the Windows PC’s coffin

    When we say tablets are to blame for the decline of the Windows PC, we really mean the iPad

  10. Analyst: Consolidation in beleaguered Windows PC market ‘inevitable’ as sales plummet

    The latest data from IDC showed that PC sales declined 13.9 percent year over year…

  11. North Korean missile test delayed by ‘problems with Windows 8′

    North Korea’s official news agency announced today that the military’s planned missile test…

  12. Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista

    Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…

  13. Apple releases Boot Camp 5 for booting Macs into Windows 8

    Apple yesterday released Boot Camp 5, a major new version…

  14. Microsoft’s Surface tablets said to fall far short of predictions

    Microsoft Corp. has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices…

  15. Analyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT on track to join Zune and Kin in the great consumer electronics discount rack in the sky

    Microsoft has never had a good track record with consumer hardware…

  16. Apple’s MacBook Pro with Retina display bests 18 Windows 8 laptops, Samsung Series 3 Chromebook in battery life test

    We test every laptop for battery life…

  17. As Surface and other Windows tablets flop, Microsoft slashes Windows 8 and Office prices for OEMs

    Microsoft Corp. has recently been offering price breaks on its Windows 8…

  18. The late, not-so-great Microsoft Windows 8

    by the end of 2013, Windows will be only the third most popular computer OS in the world…

  19. As Surface flops, Microsoft CFO says there’s no ‘Plan B’

    Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc’s dominance…

  20. Microsoft ‘sells out’ of undisclosed number of Surface Pro units

    Microsoft appears to be ‘sold out’ of its horridly-reviewed flop…

  21. The mobile train has left the Windows 8 platform behind

    According to Canaccord Genuity, Apple took in 69% of the handset profits in 2012…

  22. Microsoft’s ‘Surface Pro’ tablet slammed by negative reviews

    U.S. tech writers have given Microsoft Corp’s new Surface tablet-laptop hybrid…

  23. The Verge reviews Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Too big, too fat, frustratingly poor battery life; it just feels limiting

    It’s supposed to be freeing, but it just feels limiting…

  24. Microsoft’s Windows RT: Circling the bowl

    Over the past several days, Windows CFO and CMO Tami Reller…

  25. Crash and burn: Windows RT tablet sales in 2012 likely to total less than one million units

    Actual sales of Windows RT tablets, including, but not limited to Microsoft’s own Surface RT, so far are likely to be less than one million units…