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Tag: Windows 8

Are iOS and OS X heading towards a merger?

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:27 pmWednesday, December 17, 201442 Comments

This is where Microsoft started with Windows 8, or at least tried, but…

OS X Yosemite adoption is breaking Windows

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:26 amWednesday, October 29, 201428 Comments

This is yet another symptom of Microsoft’s broken business model…

China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers; Microsoft ‘surprised’

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:33 pmTuesday, May 20, 201437 Comments

China has banned government use of Windows 8…

Losses mount for beleaguered Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Monday, April 28, 2014 9:35 pmMonday, April 28, 201446 Comments

Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft’s Surface line…

Microsoft considering allowing Android apps to run on both Windows and Windows Phone, sources say

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:51 pmWednesday, February 12, 201428 Comments

Of Microsoft’s many challenges in mobile, none loom larger than the app deficit…

Bill Gates spends entire first day back in office trying to install Windows 8.1

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:51 pm55 Comments

Bill Gates’ first day at work got off to a rocky start…

Samsung races against rumors of an Apple ‘iPad Pro’ with two new 12-inch Android tablets

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 5:08 pm27 Comments

South Korean electronics giant Samsung on Monday fired a preemptive shot…

Microsoft needs to give up trying to target Apple’s iPad

Monday, December 30, 2013 2:28 pmMonday, December 30, 201314 Comments

Instead of making head-to-head commercials against Apple, Microsoft…

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…

Microsoft took a big risk with Windows 8 and it’s backfiring

Monday, October 14, 2013 9:30 amMonday, October 14, 201343 Comments

The widespread backlash to Windows 8, combined with Microsoft’s decision to…

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…

Turns out, nobody wants to touch Windows 8 (and Microsoft is screwed)

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:28 amThursday, January 2, 201441 Comments

Windows 8’s flaws have resulted in the worst of all worlds…

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…

Microsoft’s AppLack: Just barely half of top 100 apps are on Windows 8

Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:04 pmThursday, August 8, 201319 Comments

Most of the top apps are still not supported by Windows 8…

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…

Microsoft’s Surface sales figures are in, and they’re a total disaster

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:00 pmTuesday, July 30, 201369 Comments

Microsoft’s total Surface revenue for all of fiscal 2013 amounted to just…

iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising

Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:03 pmThursday, July 11, 201345 Comments

Microsoft announced Surface last summer to great fanfare…

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…

Samsung unveils hybrid tablet that runs both Android and Windows 8 apps

Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:28 pmThursday, June 20, 201341 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co. introduced its first tablet that can run…

Over 92% of Maine educators choose Apple MacBooks, iPads over HP laptops

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:45 pmThursday, June 20, 201332 Comments

For the first time since the Maine Learning Technology Initiative began…

Apple’s MacBook Air and Pro: Better multi-touch support than Windows 8, no touch screen required

Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:17 pm26 Comments

The MacBook Air recently released is a notebook that sets the bar…

Dvorak: A standing O for Apple’s new Mac Pro

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:19 pm84 Comments

Ever wonder why there has been a massive slowdown in PC growth?

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 Windows 8.1 timing is all wrong

Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:33 pmThursday, May 23, 201314 Comments

It is going to be very difficult for Microsoft to succeed with Windows 8.1…

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…

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

Friday, May 10, 2013 11:00 amFriday, May 10, 201340 Comments

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

About those so-called 100 million Windows 8 sales

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 12:02 pmWednesday, May 8, 201331 Comments

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

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

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:31 pmTuesday, May 7, 201349 Comments

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

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….

Windows 8ista: Microsoft admits failure

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:01 amTuesday, May 7, 201387 Comments

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

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

Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:25 amThursday, May 2, 201335 Comments

Microsoft is expected to announce second-generation Surface tablets…

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

Thursday, April 18, 2013 2:32 pmThursday, April 18, 201339 Comments

With PC sales crashing and burning…

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

Monday, April 15, 2013 12:30 pmMonday, April 15, 201323 Comments

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

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

Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:00 pmThursday, April 11, 20138 Comments

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

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…

Apple releases Boot Camp 5 for booting Macs into Windows 8

Friday, March 15, 2013 4:03 pmFriday, March 15, 201335 Comments

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

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…

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

Monday, March 11, 2013 10:32 amMonday, March 11, 20134 Comments

We test every laptop for battery life…

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…

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