How big a player will Microsoft's Windows be in the future?Wall Street Journal - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft Corp. is confronting the biggest challenge to its Windows franchise so far: a world where mobile phones and tablets are handling more of the computing chores once only done on personal computers. Windows may be 25 years old, but it is no less ... |
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Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declarationZDNet (blog) - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - 16 Aug, 2011Summary: Who is Microsoft fooling? Other than on the desktop, Linux is eating its lunch, and it's only going to get worse for Microsoft. My compadre Ed Bott does a fine job of digging under the ... |
Microsoft launches Windows 8 blogThe Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - 16 Aug, 2011Windows chief Steven Sinofsky launched a Building Windows 8 blog today, focusing on the engineering of Window's next operating system. The blog is designed to "begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over ... |
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Microsoft Is FINALLY Ready To Talk About Windows 8 (MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft's Windows chief, Steve Sinofsky, is known for his "cone of silence" around upcoming products -- even the Windows team used to have trouble getting information about Office when he led that group. But it looks like he's finally ready to spill ... |
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Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Blog, Pledges to Release Tech DetailsPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft announced an open dialog between itself and the community for Windows 8, focusing on the engineering of the upcoming operating system. Microsoft's "Building Windows 8" blog didn't reveal any new details of the operating system ... |
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Sinofsky starts Windows 8 blog, says beta coming soonThe Seattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft is rolling out the digital red carpet for the full Windows 8 unveiling next month the company's developer conference. Windows boss Steven Sinofsky today posted the first item in the "Building Windows 8" blog, where his team will "begin an ... |
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If you liked the Windows 7 engineering blog, you'll love the Windows 8 oneZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 16 Aug, 2011Summary: Microsoft kicked off a new Windows 8 engineering blog about a month before the company is expected to release a first widespread test build of the next version of Windows. ... |
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Microsoft declares victory over Linux, names Apple and Google main rivalsZDNet (blog) - Ed Bott - 16 Aug, 2011Summary: Normally, reading a company's annual report is an exercise in sheer boredom. But this year Microsoft's lawyers allowed some actual competitive insight to sneak into the 10-K reports it files with the ... |
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Windows Security PraisedPCWorld - Preston Gralla - Aug 14, 2011Conventional wisdom has it that Windows and products from Microsoft are extremely unsafe, easy targets for hackers. That conventional wisdom is wrong, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab's recent quarterly malware ... |
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Microsoft Gives Details on Windows 8's Progress in Blog SeriesRedmond Channel Partner - Kurt Mackie - 16 Aug, 2011A new Microsoft blog series is giving the public some insight into Windows 8, the upcoming Microsoft client operating system that is currently under development. The first blog of the Building Windows 8 ("B8") series was posted on Monday ... |
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Microsoft launches 'Building Windows 8' blogTechSpot - Shawn Knight - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft introduced a new blog and Twitter account to keep partners and customers better updated with the development and progress of its next operating system. Windows President Steven Sinofsky made the first post on the “Building ... |
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Microsoft launches Windows 8 blog, indicates possible early editionsDigitaltrends.com - 16 Aug, 2011Today, Microsoft opened up a new channel with its customers and developers worldwide by launching its Windows 8 blog. In the inaugural post, Steven Sinofsky, Windows's President said, “We've heard people express frustration over how little we've ... |
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Microsoft launches Building Windows 8 blogPCR-online.biz - Mat Bettinson - 16 Aug, 2011Software giant Microsoft has launched a new Building Windows 8 blog which the firm described as an "open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months. ... |
The Linux Microsoft Desktop Rivalry is Over…Microsoft WinsWindows 7 News - 16 Aug, 2011By GGarza on August 15, 2011 in Business, Windows 7 News | Comments { 0 } Microsoft has claimed to be king of the hill for a while now, ie, the desktop hill. It was, however, always looking over it's shoulder to see who might be sneaking up behind them ... |
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Microsoft aims to engage developers with Windows 8 blogBetaNews (blog) - Ed Oswald - 16 Aug, 2011Aiming not to repeat the mistakes of its past, Microsoft pledged Monday to engage the developer community as well as consumers during development of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. ... |
Microsoft rewrites 10K filing to depict Apple as significant competitorApple Insider - Daniel Eran Dilger - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft revamped this year's 10K filing with the Securities Exchange Commission to remove mention of Linux, Mozilla and Opera as significant competitors and amplify the role of Apple as a competitor in both software and online ... |
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Microsoft Begins Blogging Win 8TekGoblin - Andy Mercer - 16 Aug, 2011By Andy MercerAugust 15, 2011, 6:48 pm 0 Comments Microsoft's developer blogs have been around for several years, as an attempt to open more dialogue with consumers. Today a new blog appeared, titled Building Windows 8, or B8. ... |
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Steven Sinofsky Kicks Off the Conversation About Windows 8Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows (blog) - Paul Thurrott - 16 Aug, 2011Just weeks before Microsoft is set to reveal all about Windows 8 (and, presumably, Windows 8 Server), Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky has provided the first post to the new Building Windows 8 blog, a successor to the earlier Engineering ... |
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Microsoft downgrades Linux threat, and Windows chief Sinofsky is blogging againGeekWire - Todd Bishop - 16 Aug, 2011Linux no longer a Windows threat? Microsoft's latest annual report with the SEC no longer refers to Linux as a competitor for its PC Windows business. Ed Bott at ZDNet does a good job explaining what has changed in the document since last year, ... |
Windows 8 Release Is Coming CloserGhacks Technology News - 16 Aug, 2011Remember how Microsoft marketed the Windows 7 operating system back in 2008 before it was available on retail channels? Right, with a series of blog posts aimed at developers and end users a like, then the beta release followed by the release candidate ... |
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Steven Sinofsky Kicks off Windows 8… Beta Coming Soon!Windows 8 News - 16 Aug, 2011In the inaugural post of the new “Building Windows 8 Blog“, Windows chief and Microsoft Senior Vice-President Steven Sinofsky has started the discussion about Windows 8 with the company's BUILD conference, where WIndows 8 will be unveiled, ... |
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Microsoft Finally Starts Talking Windows 8 In New BlogSlashGear - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft announced a new blog today dedicated to all things Windows 8. The software giant has been very secretive about developments for this next-gen platform, but that's about to change. The new site will let partners and developers in on the ... |
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Microsoft Opens Windows 8 Development BlogAnandTech - Andrew Cunningham - 16 Aug, 2011It seems like not all that long ago we were talking about the launch of Windows 7, but 2012 is right around the corner, and it's bringing Windows 8 with it. To that end, Windows Division President Steven ... |
Microsoft Launches Windows 8 BlogeWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - 16 Aug, 2011Microsoft has launched a blog detailing developments behind Windows 8. This is surely just the first part of a massive marketing campaign. Microsoft's ramp-up to Windows 8 is beginning in earnest. In the quarters leading to the release of Windows 7, ... |
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Microsoft hints at quickly approaching Windows 8 betaThe Next Web - 16 Aug, 2011Today Microsoft made plain its intention to release an early edition of Windows 8 in the near future: “We've been hard at work designing and building Windows 8, and today we want to begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the ... |
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Cloud Computing: Samba 3.6 OutSYS-CON Media (press release) - Maureen O'Gara - 16 Aug, 2011The Samba Team has released Samba 3.6, a major new release of the Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The widgetry includes the first Samba implementation of Microsoft's new SMB2 file-serving ... |
Steve Jobs chatting with Bill Gates in 1991Network World (blog) - Yoni Heisler - 16 Aug, 2011Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, but that wasn't the case back in 1991 when the photo below was taken. At the time, Jobs was the CEO of NeXT and had been disassociated from Apple for a good 5 years ... |
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Are Linux Users Smarter or is Everyone Else Just Lazy?Datamation - 16 Aug, 2011Though some users claim the Linux desktop is difficult and complex, few real obstacles confront new users. For several years now, I've watched in amazement as two different groups of technology fans have exchanged blows back and forth on the mainstream ... |
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Microsoft Keeps Talking About Speech Recognition in WindowsRedmond Channel Partner (blog) - 16 Aug, 2011Many years ago -- well, back in the mid-'90s -- your editor slipped into a conference room where a demo of Office (or maybe even Windows 98) was taking place at a trade show. Somebody from Microsoft was showing how speech-recognition software would ... |
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Microsoft's 'Linux Threat Level': Down to Green or Redder Than Ever?TechNewsWorld - Katherine Noyes - 16 Aug, 2011"Those tablets and smartphones and web-based apps and ChromeOS laptops with their Google DNA and Linux underpinnings are all direct threats to the Windows OS, so I wouldn't say this is a downgrading of Linux, but an acceptance that ... |
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