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Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:07 pmTuesday, November 26, 201340 Comments

Do not risk your hard-earned money on Microsoft’s dead end products…

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

Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 13, 201333 Comments

The law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd has filed a class-action suit against Microsoft…

Desperate Microsoft cuts Surface Pro tablet prices; could signal even more losses

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:00 pmTuesday, August 13, 201356 Comments

Just over two weeks after Microsoft (MSFT) took a $900 million charge…

Beleaguered Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off in 13 years; $36 billion chopped off company value

Friday, July 19, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 19, 201379 Comments

Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday…

Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly

Friday, July 19, 2013 1:02 pmFriday, July 19, 201350 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it was taking a $900 million write-down on Surface tablets…

Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft

Friday, July 19, 2013 10:01 amFriday, July 19, 201324 Comments

The personal computer business has been in the worst downturn since the industry’s inception…

Microsoft earnings, sales badly miss expectations; $900 million inventory writedown on Surface tablet flop

Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:08 pmThursday, September 5, 201355 Comments

Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…

Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet

Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:36 pmThursday, July 11, 201332 Comments

Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…

Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:31 pmTuesday, July 9, 201332 Comments

The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…

Microsoft tries to revive floundering Windows by returning ‘start’ button in 8.1 update

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:19 pm73 Comments

Microsoft on Wednesday launched its latest effort to reverse…

What is wrong with Microsoft?

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:10 pmTuesday, June 25, 201328 Comments

Microsoft’s had a tough year, and it’s not even half over…

Steve Ballmer to unveil S.S. Microsoft’s new arrangement of deck chairs by July 1

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:56 am26 Comments

According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer…

More nonsense about OS X from the pundits

Friday, June 21, 2013 4:31 pmFriday, June 21, 201333 Comments

I could probably devote every one of my columns to the silly comments…

Microsoft massively discounts anemic-selling Surface RT tablets to schools worldwide

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:34 pm42 Comments

Microsoft has announced a new program that will see schools around…

Desperate Microsoft marks down Windows, dangles free Office in bid to move tablets

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:01 pmWednesday, June 5, 201339 Comments

Microsoft today confirmed what many analysts suspected, that it has cut prices…

Windows 8 continues to flop hard

Monday, June 3, 2013 4:10 pmMonday, June 3, 201343 Comments

Windows 8 continues to fall behind…

Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales

Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:02 pmThursday, May 30, 201368 Comments

Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…

Microsoft’s cheap shot at Apple’s iPad actually spotlights exactly why Windows 8 tablets suck (with video)

Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:01 amThursday, May 23, 201354 Comments

A brand new Windows 8 ad pits the iPad against Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet…

The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:37 pmTuesday, May 7, 201328 Comments

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

How Tim Cook is like Steve Ballmer

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:12 amTuesday, April 23, 201331 Comments

It’s worth pointing out that Apple is not the only big tech company…

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…

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

Friday, March 15, 2013 11:32 amFriday, March 15, 201344 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices…

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

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:32 amWednesday, March 13, 201359 Comments

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

Analyst: Microsoft should pull the plug on poor-selling Windows RT tablets, admit defeat

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:34 pm35 Comments

Samsung already has pulled its Windows RT tablets from some markets in Europe…

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

Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:08 pmThursday, February 14, 201346 Comments

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

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 ‘Surface Pro’ tablet slammed by negative reviews

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:20 am21 Comments

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

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

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 8:35 amWednesday, February 6, 201313 Comments

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

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…

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…

Microsoft launching Surface Pro tablet on February 9, starting at $1090.95 with keyboard and mouse

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:49 amWednesday, January 23, 201348 Comments

Surface Windows 8 Pro will be available for purchase on Feb. 9 in the U.S and Canada…

UBS slashes Microsoft Surface estimate in half

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:17 amTuesday, January 15, 201335 Comments

When Microsoft next reports earnings, don’t expect Surface sales…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Surface tablet flops

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:35 pmWednesday, December 12, 201270 Comments

Apple’s market-creating iPad continues to dominate…

App developers shun Microsoft’s Surface tablet

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:55 pmWednesday, December 5, 201229 Comments

Microsoft has reportedly spent more than $1.5 billion to market…

Microsoft Surface Pro to offer only half the battery life of Apple’s latest iPad with Retina display

Friday, November 30, 2012 1:38 pmFriday, November 30, 201256 Comments

When Microsoft launches the Windows 8 Pro version of its Surface tablet…

Microsoft to mimic Apple yet again, move to once-per-year Windows upgrades, source say

Friday, November 30, 2012 9:24 am24 Comments

Microsoft Corp. plans to overhaul how it develops the flagship Windows…

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…

Windows 8 sales are ‘slow going, disappointing’

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:36 pmTuesday, November 20, 201264 Comments

Further confirming our suspicions that Windows 8 is off to a slow start…

Microsoft hit with lawsuit over Surface tablet’s lack of storage due to bloated Windows RT operating system

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:54 amThursday, November 15, 201233 Comments

Microsoft’s 32 GB Surface has only 16 GB of free space…

Microsoft Surface Touch Cover splits within days, exposing wire; early users complain

Friday, November 9, 2012 8:40 amFriday, November 9, 201249 Comments

Some early users of the Touch Cover of Microsoft’s Surface tablet…

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