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Tag: beleaguered Microsoft

Microsoft’s beleaguered Nokia sees smartphone sales, profits plunge in Q4

Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:20 pm22 Comments

Windows Phone Lumia smartphones failed to draw business away from larger competitors like Apple…

Surging Chromebook sales this Christmas spell doom for Microsoft

Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:48 amSunday, December 29, 201367 Comments

Google’s browser-based Chrome operating system…

Microsoft CEO candidate Elop said to mull focus company on Office, not Windows

Friday, November 8, 2013 9:32 am19 Comments

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO…

Microsoft said to include Kevin Turner on internal list for CEO

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:11 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board placed Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner…

Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Elop, Mulally make the cut

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 11:30 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates…

Apple repeatedly abused beleaguered Microsoft yesterday

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:01 pmWednesday, October 23, 201343 Comments

Apple is winning, and it really wants its competition to know it…

Free OS X Mavericks will pay off for Apple in many ways

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:01 pmWednesday, October 23, 201320 Comments

As Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, said…

Beleaguered Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update; crashes Surface tablets

Monday, October 21, 2013 9:01 amMonday, October 21, 201354 Comments

Microsoft has pulled a Windows update from its website…

AppLack: Microsoft’s $7.2 billion Nokia gamble not luring developers

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:02 pmWednesday, October 9, 201322 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s $7.2 billion pairing with Nokia Oyj’s handset business is failing…

Microsoft wants beleaguered HTC to make phones that run both Android and Windows Phone

Friday, October 4, 2013 2:32 pmFriday, October 4, 201335 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC Corp. about adding its Windows Phone…

Microsoft short-timer Ballmer loses over half his bonus over failure to compete with Apple

Friday, October 4, 2013 8:58 amFriday, October 4, 201340 Comments

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received $1.26 million…

Top investors push Microsoft board to boot chairman Bill Gates

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:49 pmTuesday, October 1, 201342 Comments

Top investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down…

Desperate Microsoft offers at least $200 to trade in your iPhone for a Windows Phone

Friday, September 27, 2013 4:05 pm36 Comments

After offering at least $200 for an iPad, Microsoft is now looking…

Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft employees, promises it will ‘deliver the next big thing’

Friday, September 27, 2013 10:14 amFriday, September 27, 201379 Comments

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer bid farewell to employees…

Years after being shown by Apple, poor Microsoft still doesn’t understand what tablets are for

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:00 pmTuesday, September 24, 201350 Comments

Microsoft aims to solidify their hold on a key niche market: People who hate fun…

Apple proves critics wrong with blowout iPhone sales of the new iPhone 5S and 5C

Monday, September 23, 2013 11:39 am31 Comments

Blowout sales of the new iPhones show that the naysayers were way off…

Microsoft’s beleaguered Nokia to pay outgoing CEO Elop $25 million

Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:00 pmThursday, September 19, 201329 Comments

Nokia Corp. says it will pay outgoing CEO Stephen Elop…

Desperate Microsoft wants to pay you at least $200 to trade in your iPad for a Surface tablet

Friday, September 13, 2013 10:25 amFriday, September 13, 201339 Comments

After recruiting Siri to bad-mouth the iPad, beleaguered Microsoft

Apple’s iPhone 5s’ biggest loser: Microsoft

Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:25 am31 Comments

Tuesday’s iPhone 5S event made a loser out of Microsoft…

Apple kicks Microsoft when it’s down with free iWork for iOS apps

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:23 pmTuesday, September 10, 201339 Comments

Apple used its iPhone launch to take a swipe at Microsoft…

Microsoft employees recognize beleaguered company has lost its way

Monday, September 9, 2013 9:29 amMonday, September 9, 201324 Comments

Since mid-July, three interlocking events…

What’s behind Microsoft’s fall from dominance?

Friday, September 6, 2013 2:10 pm41 Comments

The decade since Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive at Microsoft…

Can beleaguered Microsoft really go head-to-head with Apple?

Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, September 5, 201330 Comments

No.

Beleaguered Microsoft’s heyday is far in the past; its future is slow, inexorable decline

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 5:01 pmTuesday, September 3, 201351 Comments

Over the course of Steve Ballmer’s tenure as Microsoft CEO…

Rob Enderle: ‘I may be delusional’

Friday, August 30, 2013 10:58 amFriday, August 30, 201355 Comments

I view Steve’s early retirement as one of my own greatest failures…

British Bookmaker Ladbrokes takes bets on Microsoft’s next CEO

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:03 pmFriday, August 30, 201324 Comments

While much of the tech world has spent the last week handicapping…

Ballmer’s poisonous employee-ranking system helps explain beleaguered Microsoft’s decline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:30 pmTuesday, August 27, 201358 Comments

There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft seeks to reassure workers by telling them that Ballmer’s reorg plan will go ahead

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:05 amTuesday, August 27, 201335 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is telling employees that a reorganization plan…

The rise and fall of Windows Mobile, under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer

Monday, August 26, 2013 12:34 pmMonday, August 26, 201322 Comments

For several years, before Apple introduced an iPhone…

Steve Ballmer’s exit not planned or as smooth as portrayed by Microsoft

Monday, August 26, 2013 11:09 amMonday, August 26, 201332 Comments

According to sources close to the situation…

If Steve Ballmer ran Apple

Monday, August 26, 2013 10:00 amMonday, August 26, 201324 Comments

Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple…

Under sales guy Ballmer, Microsoft’s stock has been a dud

Monday, August 26, 2013 9:02 am20 Comments

When Steve Ballmer took over as CEO in January 2000…

A Tale of Two Steves: Apple’s Jobs vs. Microsoft’s Ballmer

Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:29 pmTuesday, August 27, 201363 Comments

Steve Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs…

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s $16 billion albatross

Friday, August 23, 2013 2:58 pmFriday, August 23, 201314 Comments

It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…

Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news

Friday, August 23, 2013 10:33 amFriday, August 23, 201359 Comments

Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process

Friday, August 23, 2013 9:31 amMonday, August 26, 2013176 Comments

Well, it’s finally happened…

The irrelevance of beleaguered Microsoft

Friday, July 26, 2013 10:02 amFriday, July 26, 201328 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft’s share of connected devices has collapsed…

Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up

Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:00 pmThursday, July 25, 201362 Comments

This is what happens when you don’t accept reality…

Microsoft is reorganizing – again

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:01 pmTuesday, June 4, 201335 Comments

The cuckoo concept behind this latest chair-swizzle seems to be…

Hey, Microsoft-clinging IT doofus: You need to let it go already!

Friday, April 19, 2013 3:31 pmFriday, April 19, 201380 Comments

Every so often, you see a research survey that shows IT organizations…

Microsoft’s latest phone chief says Apple’s iOS is ‘boring’

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:31 pmTuesday, April 16, 201355 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s top mobile-phone executive said its Windows Phone…

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

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:28 am41 Comments

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

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