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Tag: Steve Jobs’ revenge

Judge rules Michael Dell didn’t give all the money back to the shareholders, by $6 billion

Saturday, June 11, 2016 1:10 pmSaturday, June 11, 201622 Comments

A Delaware judge’s recent ruling that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners shortchanged public shareholders…

Downgrades, price cuts flood over beleaguered Microsoft after earnings; shares plummet over 10%

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:52 amTuesday, January 27, 201514 Comments

In premarket reading, shares of beleaguered Microsoft shares are down 7.8 percent…

Microsoft down over 4% in late trading; Windows revenue under pressure

Monday, January 26, 2015 6:30 pm19 Comments

The slowdown is blamed on slowing business PC sales…

Apple Mac surges as global PC sales falter in fourth quarter

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:00 pmTuesday, January 13, 201511 Comments

Apple’s indomitable Macintosh continues to outpace the rest of the PC market…

Don’t believe the hype about beleaguered Microsoft’s so-called revitalization

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:55 amTuesday, November 25, 201439 Comments

Much has been written about Microsoft’s revitalization…

Starwood CEO ditches desktop PC: I can be much more productive with my Apple iPad

Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:27 amThursday, November 20, 201418 Comments

The CEO relies on his Apple Inc. iPhone and iPad for work at home and the office…

Walter Mossberg: Apple Mac’s amazing comeback

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:00 pmWednesday, November 19, 201421 Comments

Walt Mossberg discusses what’s behind the revival of Apple’s Mac…

Beleaguered Hewlett-Packard to split in two

Monday, October 6, 2014 8:53 am25 Comments

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to separate its PC and printer businesses from its…

Gartner: Only 14 percent of computing devices sold last year ran Windows

Friday, September 26, 2014 12:27 pmFriday, September 26, 201429 Comments

Nadella is resigned to the fact that sales of PCs have leveled off, and with it sales of Windows…

Beleaguered Microsoft still in search of a strategy

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:29 pmWednesday, August 20, 201425 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft still doesn’t get it…

Apple is well on its way to devastating Microsoft

Monday, July 7, 2014 11:32 amMonday, July 7, 201427 Comments

If you work in IT, but you’re ultimately a grunt…

Beleaguered HP to ax up to 16,000 more employees over the 34,000 cuts already announced

Friday, May 23, 2014 1:01 pmFriday, May 23, 201421 Comments

Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard…

Apple’s iPad business isn’t collapsing, but the rest of the tablet industry sure is

Monday, May 5, 2014 12:13 pm17 Comments

Apple sold over $7.5 billion worth of tablets in one of its historically slowest quarters…

Low-priced $899 MacBook Air taps Apple into massive $63 billion-per-year notebook market

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 5:03 pmThursday, May 1, 201412 Comments

Apple’s new entry-level 11-inch MacBook Air is the company’s most affordable notebook…

Apple kills the Windows PC and no one seems to mind

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:29 pmWednesday, April 30, 201454 Comments

Consumers are beginning to get wise to the hidden costs of Windows PC ownership…

Beleaguered Microsoft completes acquisition of beleaguered Nokia

Friday, April 25, 2014 9:02 amFriday, April 25, 201418 Comments

Microsoft Corp. completed the takeover of Nokia Oyj’s phone business…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s hardships continue

Monday, April 14, 2014 8:00 pmMonday, April 14, 201440 Comments

We continue to advise investor caution on shares of Microsoft…

The day Ballmer went too far: Screaming ultimatum to BoD last July, either buy Nokia or I’m gone!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:28 pmWednesday, March 5, 201436 Comments

As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft Corp., he’s coming to grips…

Ballmer wishes for 10 year do-over, says Microsoft missed the mobile market

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 4:27 pmTuesday, March 4, 201454 Comments

Microsoft Corp largely missed the mobile market in the last decade…

Beleaguered Sony exits PC business; axes 5,000 jobs

Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:37 amThursday, February 6, 201429 Comments

Japan’s electronics firms struggle to compete with deep-pocketed industry giants like Apple Inc…

Lenovo in talks about taking over Sony’s beleaguered Vaio Windows PC business

Monday, February 3, 2014 6:00 pmMonday, February 3, 201416 Comments

Moody’s cut Sony’s debt rating to junk status last week…

Apple will put Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard out of business

Monday, January 13, 2014 2:01 pmMonday, January 13, 201448 Comments

Companies such as Microsoft and HP are completely lost…

Microsoft declines to name new Ballmer replacement this year, promises new CEO in ‘early 2014’

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:08 pm27 Comments

From an initial pool of 100 candidates, Microsoft narrowed to 20…

Microsoft: Incomptetent management destroyed the company

Friday, December 13, 2013 7:14 pm85 Comments

Windows has failed, PCs are dead, and the misery that is Windows 8…

Steve Jobs’ revenge: Latest PC market forecast projects historic 10% downturn

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 3:36 pmTuesday, December 3, 201314 Comments

This year will go down as the PC industry’s largest contraction…

Microsoft short-timer Steve Ballmer’s exit interview

Monday, November 18, 2013 9:31 amMonday, November 18, 201331 Comments

Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here…

Beleaguered Dell officially gives the money back to the shareholders

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:57 pm47 Comments

Beleaguered Dell today announced the completion of its acquisition…

Android who? Apple iPad poised to rule the world

Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:08 pm17 Comments

With the iPad, Apple is going for the whole game — and it is likely to win…

In the last five years, Microsoft’s share of personal computing plummeted from 90% to 32%

Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:23 pm42 Comments

Gartner reported that PC shipments totaled 80.3 million units in Q3…

Squirmfest: Video of Ballmer’s tearful farewell to Microsoft

Monday, September 30, 2013 5:17 pmMonday, September 30, 201389 Comments

Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been…

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 just drove a wooden stake into Microsoft’s heart

Monday, September 16, 2013 8:40 pmMonday, September 16, 201381 Comments

The biggest story to come out of last week’s Apple launch…

Michael Dell closes in new $24.8 billion deal to take beleaguered Dell private

Friday, August 2, 2013 11:26 am18 Comments

Beleaguered Dell Inc and a group led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell…

Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

Monday, July 22, 2013 6:38 pmMonday, July 22, 2013103 Comments

Windows as a post-PC operating system is dead…

Jean-Louis Gassée: Enormous differences between Apple’s 1997 and Microsoft’s 2013 reorganizations

Monday, July 15, 2013 11:01 amTuesday, September 10, 201313 Comments

There are enormous differences between the scorched-earth reorganization of Apple in 1997…

Gartner: Q213 PC shipments drop 11% YOY as post-PC decline continues

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:20 pmThursday, July 11, 201315 Comments

Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76 million units in the second quarter of 2013…

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…

Windows 8 continues to flop hard

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

Windows 8 continues to fall behind…

IDC’s gloomier PC forecast means more trouble for Microsoft’s Windows

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:55 pm13 Comments

IDC today drastically lowered its forecast for PC shipments in 2013…

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