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Tag: Windows RT

Microsoft’s next CEO: Scott Forstall?

Friday, November 30, 2012 11:14 amFriday, November 30, 201238 Comments

Forstall could get rid of the dead wood hanging around Redmond…

Windows 8 face-plant: U.S. notebook and desktop sales down 21% in Windows 8’s first month

Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:24 pmThursday, November 29, 201235 Comments

Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today…

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…

Analyst: Apple’s iOS is ‘The New Windows’ – and it’s not meant as an insult

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:13 pm25 Comments

The increasing diversity in tablets offered on the market plays to Apple’s advantage…

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…

Apple, Tesla completely embarrass Microsoft whose employees should be livid, ashamed or both

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:38 am35 Comments

Any person even remotely associated with Microsoft should be livid, ashamed…

Design guru Nielsen: Windows 8 a ‘misguided’ product; UI ‘smothers usability’

Monday, November 19, 2012 6:02 pm30 Comments

User interface design guru Jakob Nielsen is none too pleased with Microsoft’s Windows 8…

TechCrunch’s Siegler reviews Microsoft Surface RT: ‘It’s time for a drop test – right into the garbage can’

Monday, November 19, 2012 5:30 pm36 Comments

It’s hard to come up with a lot of nice things to say about the Surface…

Jean-Louis Gassée: Apple can finish what Microsoft’s Sinofsky started

Sunday, November 18, 2012 2:43 pm33 Comments

Now that all OS X and iOS software is under one hat…

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…

Ballmer suggests more Microsoft-branded devices coming

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:26 amThursday, November 15, 201231 Comments

Ballmer said Microsoft would look at more opportunities to build its own devices…

Beleaguered Microsoft has failed

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:38 pmWednesday, November 14, 201284 Comments

“Microsoft is in deep trouble, their two main product lines are failing…

Microsoft Windows RT and 8 sales: Signs point to a major flop

Monday, November 12, 2012 4:00 pm60 Comments

All signs point to the Surface with Windows RT selling slowly…

Ballmer: Microsoft Surface sales ‘modest’

Monday, November 12, 2012 2:02 pmMonday, November 12, 201240 Comments

Sales of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet have been ‘modest,’ according to Monkey Boy Ballmer…

Microsoft’s big hidden Windows 8 feature: Built-in advertising

Friday, November 9, 2012 2:39 pmFriday, November 9, 201222 Comments

While people can expect ads in a free app, no one expects ads in a piece of software that they just paid good money for

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…

Slate reviews Microsoft’s Surface tablet: Too slow, mercilessly buggy; why is it so bad?

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 2:33 pmTuesday, November 6, 201238 Comments

Why is the Surface so bad?

Microsoft’s bloated Windows RT eats 16GB of Surface tablet

Monday, November 5, 2012 10:23 pmMonday, November 5, 201254 Comments

Windows has a bad rep for gobbling up storage space on PCs. Ditto Surface…

InfoWorld reviews Microsoft Surface RT: A disappointment; you’re better off with Apple’s iPad

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:30 pm38 Comments

You can do a lot more with an iPad…

Acer delays Windows RT tablets; adopts ‘wait and see’ approach after poor Surface RT reviews

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:32 pm30 Comments

Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using…

Ballmer on tablets: ‘I don’t think anyone has done a product that I see customers wanting’

Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:36 pmSaturday, October 27, 201296 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer trumpeted the company’s new Surface tablet…

Microsoft exec blasts Apple’s iPad mini as ‘seven-inch recreational tablet for $329’

Friday, October 26, 2012 4:32 pmFriday, October 26, 201274 Comments

With Windows 8, Steven Sinofsky said that Microsoft and its PC-making partners…

The time is here for OS X to put a serious dent in Windows

Friday, October 26, 2012 3:00 pmFriday, October 26, 201255 Comments

With the Mac having around 13% of the computer market share in the U.S. and Microsoft making one boo-boo after another…

Ballmer: We’re going to make more Microsoft-branded hardware

Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:16 pmThursday, October 25, 201246 Comments

Microsoft’s chief boss has confirmed he plans to release more devices…

Gizmodo reviews Microsoft Surface RT: Do not buy; inferior to Apple’s iPad; the worst of both worlds

Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:51 pm43 Comments

Microsoft’s Surface RT is not worth your paycheck…

The Verge reviews Microsoft Surface RT tablet: ‘The whole thing is honestly perplexing; who is this for?’

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:27 pmWednesday, October 24, 201258 Comments

Microsoft’s US$499 (and up) Surface with Windows RT…

Microsoft’s Windows 8 release a non-event for most companies, some of which may never adopt it

Monday, October 22, 2012 9:01 am22 Comments

There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system…

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…

Dvorak: ‘Microsoft’s Surface tablet isn’t the Apple iPad, so it shouldn’t be priced like one’

Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:30 am43 Comments

To compete with an Apple product, Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet must be priced aggressively lower…

Morgan Stanley: Microsoft will sell 3 million Surface tablets in 2012, 9 million in 2013

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:03 pm54 Comments

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Holt has a note out today about Microsoft’s Surface…

Microsoft Surface RT tablet Wi-Fi-only; 32GB for $599 with, $499 without keyboard, $699 for 64GB

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:20 amTuesday, October 16, 201254 Comments

Microsoft has now unveiled the pricing for both of its ARM-based Surface RT tablets…

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…

Apple’s ‘iPad mini’ to obliterate Microsoft’s Windows 8, Surface RT tablet launches

Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:00 amSaturday, October 13, 201235 Comments

The 23rd of October is a very useful date for the success of Apple’s diminutive tablet…

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…

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…

Microsoft Surface Windows RT tablet to start a $199, says source

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:34 pm40 Comments

Price estimates for the Windows RT version of Microsoft’s Surface tablet…

Acer CEO to Microsoft: ‘Think twice’ about Surface tablets

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 12:37 pm35 Comments

JT Wang, chairman and chief executive of Acer, said Microsoft’s plans…

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’…

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