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

Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:30 pmThursday, March 7, 201328 Comments

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

The late, not-so-great Microsoft Windows 8

Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:43 pmThursday, March 7, 201330 Comments

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

J.C. Penney posts large loss as sales sink further

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:02 pmWednesday, February 27, 201324 Comments

The bill for J.C. Penney Co.’s first year under Chief Executive Ron Johnson…

Apple confirms multiple service outages; App Store, iTunes and Calendar still down for some

Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:02 pmThursday, February 21, 201338 Comments

After receiving several reports from readers experiencing issues…

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

Monday, February 11, 2013 1:01 pmMonday, February 11, 201340 Comments

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

Microsoft’s Windows RT: Circling the bowl

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:05 pmWednesday, February 6, 201319 Comments

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

Michael Dell bristles when his beleaguered PC company is compared with mighty Apple Inc.

Monday, February 4, 2013 6:02 pmMonday, February 4, 201341 Comments

When conversations shifted to Apple, Mr. Dell’s body would tighten up and he would become withdrawn…

Wells Fargo analyst: All the reasons beleaguered BlackBerry’s BB10 will fail

Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:45 pm18 Comments

The entity formerly known as Beleaguered RIM’s launch of its new Blackberry 10 smartphones is too little, too late…

To stellar CEO Steve Ballmer, Office without iPad support makes ‘a lot of sense’

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:01 pmWednesday, January 30, 201366 Comments

The question of Office for iOS has burned for a year, but a release…

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

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:30 amWednesday, January 30, 201345 Comments

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…

Windows 8 bloat: Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will offer users only 23GB of available storage space

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:01 pmTuesday, January 29, 201341 Comments

Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet was knocked for the dearth of storage…

Apple’s long hunt for retail store chief continues

Monday, January 7, 2013 9:01 amMonday, January 7, 201312 Comments

John Browett, the Dixons exec tapped to oversee Apple’s retail operations last January….

Windows 8 face-plant: U.S. notebook and desktop sales down 21% in Windows 8’s first month

Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:24 pmThursday, November 29, 201235 Comments

Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today…

Microsoft’s Surface tablet flops, orders reportedly cut in half

Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:32 pmThursday, November 29, 201270 Comments

Other Windows RT-based tablet orders also seeing weak performance…

Microsoft’s Windows 8 release a non-event for most companies, some of which may never adopt it

Monday, October 22, 2012 9:01 am22 Comments

There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system…

More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel: Zune hardware gone from Microsoft site (Updated: They’re baaack!)

Monday, October 3, 2011 2:21 pmMonday, October 3, 201133 Comments

Microsoft has removed references to all Zune hardware from the official Zune website…

Microsoft online services hit by major failure

Friday, September 9, 2011 10:55 am36 Comments

Millions of Microsoft users were left unable to access some online services…

HP to produce one final run of TouchPads to meet ‘unfulfilled demand’

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:00 pmTuesday, August 30, 201138 Comments

HP has plans to produce another round of its TouchPad tablets…

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