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Tag: Windows 8

Why Microsoft’s Windows just can’t win

Friday, October 19, 2012 10:34 amFriday, October 19, 201252 Comments

Microsoft is about to have its biggest product release in nearly 20 years…

Microsoft profit slips as Windows PCs fizzle

Friday, October 19, 2012 8:41 amFriday, October 19, 201239 Comments

Microsoft Corp’s quarterly profit fell a greater-than-expected 22 percent…

Microsoft airs first TV ad for Surface tablet (with video)

Monday, October 15, 2012 11:12 pmTuesday, October 16, 2012102 Comments

Microsoft on Monday kicked off a $1 billion advertising campaign for Windows 8/RT…

Four of Microsoft’s Windows 8 ads leak online (with video)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:30 pmWednesday, October 10, 201253 Comments

A series of Windows 8 ads from Microsoft…

Developers overwhelmingly choose iOS first as interest in Android wanes for third time in last four quarters

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:01 pmTuesday, October 2, 201214 Comments

For Microsoft Corp, and Amazon.com, and the clutch of other companies that hope…

Windows 8 early adoption number 5 times lower than Windows 7

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 11:02 amMonday, October 1, 201229 Comments

With just weeks before the public launch of Windows 8…

AMD deal brings 500,000 Android apps to some Windows 8 devices

Monday, October 1, 2012 6:02 pmMonday, October 1, 201227 Comments

Some Windows 8 laptops and PCs could end up running more Android apps…

Intel CEO Ottellini says Microsoft releasing buggy Windows 8 before it’s fully ready, sources say

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:22 pm48 Comments

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told employees in Taiwan…

Ballmer: ‘Windows 8 is going to do great; It’s a fantastic product’

Monday, September 17, 2012 7:33 pmMonday, September 17, 201294 Comments

This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever…

Deathmatch: Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion vs. Microsoft’s Windows 8

Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:05 pmThursday, August 16, 201235 Comments

How does Microsoft’s new Windows 8 compare to Apple’s new OS X Mountain Lion? Not well…

Infoworld reviews Windows 8 review: Yes, it’s that bad

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:35 pmThursday, August 16, 201251 Comments

Windows 8 is a failure, an awkward mishmash…

How Microsoft could – but shouldn’t – sell Surface Windows RT tablets for $199

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:00 amWednesday, August 15, 201223 Comments

Microsoft, master of nothing but unwieldy names…

Microsoft’s enterprise app store will be Apple’s demise – again

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:34 amWednesday, August 15, 201255 Comments

Apple’s 5 stages of enterprise grief are still in its first stage…

The Windows PC sure looks like it’s dying

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:31 am46 Comments

Blame it on lack of innovation. Blame it on the economy…

Microsoft forced to kill off ‘Metro’ name due to trademark infringement

Friday, August 3, 2012 10:55 amFriday, August 3, 201247 Comments

Microsoft has issued an internal memo requiring employees to refer to Metro as ‘Windows 8 style UI’…

My grandma tries Windows 8 for the first time (with video)

Monday, July 30, 2012 3:01 pmMonday, July 30, 201255 Comments

In this video I show my 66-year-old nan attempting to use Windows 8…

Does Microsoft finally know what they’re doing? Or are they just misreading Apple’s playbook?

Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:19 pmThursday, July 26, 201243 Comments

Microsoft is in a very unique position these days…

OS X Mountain Lion: Did Apple play it safe?

Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:14 pm33 Comments

If someone accustomed to the first Macintosh in 1984 got into a time machine…

Valve co-founder Newell: ‘Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space’

Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:30 pmThursday, July 26, 201234 Comments

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve…

Microsoft Surface tablet pricing leaked; US$1,000 for ‘cheapest’ Windows RT model

Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:57 amThursday, July 26, 201225 Comments

Microsoft’s Surface tablets look to be priced well above the Cupertino Colossus’ market-defining, market-dominating iPad…

Analysts predict slow enterprise adoption of touch, Windows 8

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:16 pmWednesday, July 25, 201221 Comments

Enterprises may see little need to buy a touchscreen enhanced OS like Windows 8…

Gartner’s one-word review of Windows 8 on the desktop: ‘Bad’

Monday, July 23, 2012 12:31 pmMonday, July 23, 201242 Comments

Analyst firm Gartner has chosen just one word to describe Windows 8 for desktop users: “Bad.”

Office politics are killing Microsoft

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:00 pmTuesday, July 17, 201246 Comments

A letdown. That’s the only way to describe Microsoft’s Office 2013 announcement…

Microsoft to make mystery announcement today at noon PDT

Monday, July 16, 2012 10:00 amMonday, July 16, 201261 Comments

Microsoft Corp. will announce news live from San Francisco via webcast on July 16 at noon PDT…

Ballmer: Uh, yeah, ‘Surface is just a design point,’ you know

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:11 pmWednesday, July 11, 201268 Comments

After proclaiming in his keynote address at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference…

Bill Gates: Apple may have to make a Surface-like device

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 5:35 pmTuesday, July 3, 2012116 Comments

Now that he’s in his 50s, Bill Gates is still fanatical…

Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ ARM tablet is a terrible mistake

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 2:01 pmWednesday, July 11, 201253 Comments

When Microsoft unveiled its Surface with Windows RT tablet last month…

HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface; to cozy up to Google Android for tablet efforts

Monday, July 2, 2012 8:51 pmMonday, July 2, 201272 Comments

Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent…

Microsoft faces ‘major dilemma’ pricing Surface tablets against iPad

Monday, June 25, 2012 3:08 pm26 Comments

Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank doesn’t have high hopes for the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup…

Microsoft and Google won’t have a price advantage with iPad, so they’ll have to actually make a better product

Monday, June 25, 2012 12:27 pmMonday, June 25, 201219 Comments

Last week Microsoft kinda-sorta announced its new Microsoft Surface tablet computer…

Microsoft outsources Surface assembly to Pegatron; prices above $799 for Windows 8, above $599 for Windows RT expected

Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:04 pmThursday, June 21, 201224 Comments

Sources from notebook players have revealed that Microsoft’s 10.6-inch Surface tablet…

Dvorak: The real reason for Surface tablets is to lure people into Microsoft stores

Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:46 amThursday, June 21, 201219 Comments

None of Microsoft’s partners have any idea what the long term intentions…

Thanks to Apple, Microsoft is doomed in the era of mobile computing

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:50 pm36 Comments

The major battles have been fought and the handwriting is on the wall…

The cost of Microsoft’s Surface tablets

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:35 amWednesday, June 20, 201229 Comments

Apple’s acclaimed iPad 2 starts at just $399

Apple’s revolutionary iPad vs. Microsoft’s anti-tablet ‘Surface’

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:10 amWednesday, June 20, 201241 Comments

For ten long years Microsoft tried to get us to use their desktop operating system…

Microsoft’s Surface tablets provokes ‘sense of betrayal’ among Windows PC assemblers

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:01 am43 Comments

Microsoft Corp kept its personal computer partners largely in the dark…

Microsoft’s tablet needs to dazzle (link to live video coverage)

Monday, June 18, 2012 6:14 pmMonday, June 18, 201273 Comments

Microsoft’s long-promised tablet is finally (almost) here…

Microsoft-branded tablet preview expected today

Monday, June 18, 2012 8:52 am55 Comments

Microsoft Corp. needs to shed its image as the world’s biggest purveyor of…

Microsoft touts ‘major’ June 18 event said to showcase Windows RT tablets

Friday, June 15, 2012 9:48 amFriday, June 15, 201254 Comments

Microsoft has begun teasing that it has a ‘major’ announcement…

Windows 8 on Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina display

Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:15 pmThursday, June 14, 201221 Comments

After getting both Windows 7 and Windows 8 running on the machine…

Apple looks to finish off Microsoft

Monday, June 11, 2012 8:41 am40 Comments

Apple and Microsoft are throwing down this week, wooing the all-important…

ZDNet’s Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an awful, horrible, painful design disaster

Friday, June 8, 2012 11:45 amMonday, June 11, 201248 Comments

WIndows 8 is terrible, horrible, painful and execrable…

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