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Tag: Windows 8ista

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…

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…

As iPad kills Microsoft Surface tablets, Bill Gates claims: ‘a lot of iPad users are frustrated’

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:09 amWednesday, July 31, 201378 Comments

The iPad is one of the most popular consumer products of all time…

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…

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer admits ‘iPad killer’ Surface RT tablet a huge mistake

Monday, July 29, 2013 1:29 pmMonday, July 29, 201360 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…

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…

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…

Nielsen: Microsoft pays the most to market its products

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:02 pmWednesday, July 17, 201321 Comments

Microsoft has not been shy in the past to spend its money on advertising…

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…

Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s latest labyrinthine reorg doomed by contradictions

Friday, July 12, 2013 4:45 pmFriday, July 12, 201322 Comments

Microsoft unveiled a long-awaited new strategy…

Ballmer tightens death grip on Microsoft with major revamp

Friday, July 12, 2013 3:32 pmSaturday, July 13, 201319 Comments

Microsoft Corp’s sweeping re-organization on Thursday creates…

Steve Ballmer’s Jobsian ‘vision’ is for Microsoft to work like Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 12:40 pmFriday, July 12, 201321 Comments

Steve Ballmer wants Microsoft to work more like Apple…

Microsoft is the new Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 10:53 amFriday, July 12, 201346 Comments

When Microsoft launched its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets…

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…

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…

Gartner: Apple to overtake Microsoft in total OS sales in 2015

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:32 pmTuesday, June 25, 201318 Comments

Sales of devices based on Apple’s Mac OS and iOS will overtake sales of al of Microsoft’s OSes…

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…

Microsoft gives away 10,000 Surface RT tablets at education conference

Monday, June 17, 2013 6:02 pmMonday, June 17, 201365 Comments

Microsoft will give attendees at the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Apple’s iTunes snub is yet another nail in Microsoft’s Windows RT coffin

Monday, May 13, 2013 10:47 am13 Comments

Windows RT just can’t catch a break. Last week’s big news…

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…

Hey, Microsoft-clinging IT doofus: You need to let it go already!

Friday, April 19, 2013 3:31 pmFriday, April 19, 201380 Comments

Every so often, you see a research survey that shows IT organizations…

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…

Stick a fork in Microsoft’s Windows, it’s done

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:31 amWednesday, April 17, 201343 Comments

Calling the latest operating system a ‘failure’ and Microsoft’s leaders ‘idiots’…

Intel’s first quarter result offer more evidence of Windows PC decline

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:33 pmTuesday, April 16, 201316 Comments

Intel reported another decline in chip sales for Windows PCs…

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…

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