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Windows Phone 7 sales below expectation: Ballmer

Times of India - 15 Sep, 2011
SAN FRANSISCO: Microsoft has said that sale of Windows Phone 7 devices has been below expectation. "We haven't sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year," CEO Steve Ballmer said at the company's financial analyst meeting. ...

Microsoft: Windows 8 Tops 500000 Downloads, but Tablets Won't Run PC Apps

TIME - Matt Peckham - 15 Sep, 2011
Half a million copies of Windows 8â€"and probably more than that by nowâ€"are officially in the wild, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft released a preview version of its upcoming tablet-angled Windows-rethink ...

Microsoft Rides Wave Of Android Device Fees To $27

Forbes - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft announced that it signed patent licensing deals with two more Android device manufacturers, Acer and ViewSonic. [1] [2] Under the licensing agreements, both the companies will pay Microsoft a fixed licensing fee for each Android device that ...

Microsoft Talks Evolution of Windows Server 8

PC Magazine - Samara Lynn - 15 Sep, 2011
The excitement that Microsoft's Server 8 team generated over the upcoming release of the latest iteration of its OS was infectious. Yet, the man leading the Server 8 effort resonates nothing less than calm, cool confidence. ...

Microsoft Stops, Drops, and Rolls with Metro

PC Magazine - John C. Dvorak - 15 Sep, 2011
I got a bunch of flak for condemning the new Windows 8 Metro interface, but now that we've see what Microsoft is scheming at its Build conference, I feel vindicated. First of all, the interface should be renamed Microsoft "Kiosk," ...

Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet Is Large (and That's Good)

TIME - Harry McCracken - 15 Sep, 2011
Almost a year ago, in one of my first Techland posts, I said I liked the idea of tablets that were bigger than an iPad, which has a 9.7" display. Maybe much bigger--like 17". At Microsoft's BUILD conference this ...

Will Windows 8 rejuvenate Microsoft's image as a software and technology leader?

Wall Street Journal - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft said Windows 8has the most dramatically changed look and feel since the company introduced Windows 95, a pivotal version of its operating system that came out 16 years ago. While Apple has found great success with the iPad by creating ...

Windows 8 Tablets Won't Run PC Apps, After All

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 15 Sep, 2011
Apps written for x86 Windows PCs won't be able to run on ARM-based Win 8 tablets, according to a Microsoft exec who says his earlier statements about cross-platform compatibility were misinterpreted. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek In a clarification ...

Windows 8 Makes Microsoft A Tablet Contender Against Android, Apple

Forbes - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft showcased its Windows 8 on tablets at the BUILD conference this week. We wrote previously about how Windows 8 will be the single most important factor to the company's revenues next year. Microsoft confirmed these thoughts as it has ...

Windows 8 first impressions

CBS News - Chenda Ngak - 15 Sep, 2011
(CBS) - As Microsoft's BUILD conference winds down, developers and tech journalists are starting to voice their opinions of Windows 8. Keep in mind, Microsoft's new operating system is still in the midst of development and most likely won't launch ...

Microsoft and Intel

The Economist - 15 Sep, 2011
TOGETHER Microsoft, the maker of the Windows operating system, and Intel, the world's biggest maker of semiconductors, used to rule the world of personal computing. Now that new computers are as likely to sit in people's hands as on their desks or laps ...

Ballmer claims 500000 Windows 8 downloads in 24 hours

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 15 Sep, 2011
SOFTLY SPOKEN Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a visit to the firm's Build conference and claimed it had already shifted 500000 copies of its Windows 8 developer preview. Microsoft released an early developer preview of Windows 8 and ...

Microsoft: Maybe More Ultrabooks Than Tablets, Says Nomura

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 15 Sep, 2011
I had a chance to speak this morning with Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund, who was the “axe” on Microsoft for years at Goldman Sachs. Sherlund spent the last couple days at Microsoft's “BUILD” conference in Anaheim, California, ...

Ballmer: Windows Phone Sales Disappointing, Can Nokia Save the Day?

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer this week admitted that he's not thrilled with current Windows Phone sales, but pointed to the company's upcoming partnership with Nokia as a way to boost the platform's popularity. ...

8 Things You Need To Know About Windows 8

PC Magazine - Michael Muchmore - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft's upcoming operating has many new features, but here are eight of the most intriguing. By Michael Muchmore The BUILD convention (held this week in Anaheim, California) is Windows 8's coming out party. Although information nuggets about ...

What Developers Are Saying About Windows 8

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - 15 Sep, 2011
On Tuesday, Microsoft gave developers and journalists a chance to tinker with a developer preview of Windows 8, the latest overhaul of the OS that merges tablet, desktop, and mobile application development. Do you like the touch-centric ...

Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 Developer Preview

Inquirer - 15 Sep, 2011
By Inquirer staff The Windows Server 8 Developer Preview is an early build of Microsoft's next generation server operating system that adds enhancements from its Azure cloud computing service. Microsoft server and tools president Satya Nadella said at ...

Microsoft Will Keep Windows at Center of Strategy, CEO Says

BusinessWeek - 15 Sep, 2011
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will keep its Windows operating system at the heart of its strategy as the company revamps the software to work with new types of computing devices, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said. ...

Microsoft Reports 500000 Downloads of New Windows Preview

BusinessWeek - 15 Sep, 2011
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. said developers have downloaded 500000 copies of the preview version of Windows 8 since its debut yesterday, evidence of interest in an operating system that will vie with Apple Inc. software. ...

Microsoft's Ballmer touts connected devices and the cloud

Inquirer - Kate O'Flaherty - 15 Sep, 2011
By Kate O'Flaherty CONNECTED DEVICES and cloud services are at the heart of Microsoft's strategy, according to the software flogger's CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer said that Windows 8 along with Windows Server 8 and Windows Azure cloud services would ...

Microsoft CEO Comments from 2011 Analyst Meeting (MSFT)

Financial News Network Online - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer said at their 2011 Financial Analyst Meeting that Windows is at the center of their go-forward strategy and the company is seeing positive reaction to Windows 8. He also noted that Microsoft and Nokia's ...

Windows 8 Nitpicks and Worries

TIME - Jared Newman - 15 Sep, 2011
I've been optimistic about Windows 8 ever since Microsoft revealed a glimpse of the operating system in June, and that hasn't changed now that I've played around with the developer build on a prototype tablet. ...

Ballmer: Windows Phone can win third place in mobile!

Register - Gavin Clarke - 15 Sep, 2011
Sales of Microsoft's smartphone operating system are lagging and Redmond needs to step things up to win third place, Steve Ballmer has said. Yes, that's right: not first, or even second. ...

Will tablet developers rush to Windows 8?

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - 15 Sep, 2011
Computerworld - Now that developers have in their hands a pre-release version of Windows 8 running on a special edition of the Samsung Series 7 tablet, analysts are weighing in on how many developers will ultimately build Windows tablet ...

Windows 8: The PC Goes Post-PC

TIME - Harry McCracken - 15 Sep, 2011
Way back in 1985, Microsoft launched Windows 1.0, the first version of its Mac-like software for PCs. In 2009, it introduced Windows 7, the current edition. Thanks to 24 years' worth of astounding advances in ...

Microsoft previews Windows 8

ZDNet Asia - 15 Sep, 2011
At the Microsoft Build conference in Anaheim, Calif., Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows Division, takes the wraps off of Windows 8, unveiling the company's new operating system in front of an audience of software developers. ...

Microsoft: Windows is key to growth

News24 - 15 Sep, 2011
San Francisco - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has assured analysts on Wednesday that Windows remains the software maker's financial foundation, even though slowing personal computer sales are raising worries about the operating system's ability to adapt ...

The Day The Web Won

ZDNet UK (blog) - Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe - 15 Sep, 2011
"Resistance is futile" intoned Star Trek's Borg as they absorbed everything and everyone into their hive mind collective. That's true for the web, and one of the largest developer platforms ...

Windows 8 key to Microsoft's growth: CEO

Times of India - 15 Sep, 2011
AP | Sep 15, 2011, 01.04PM IST CALIFORNIA: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expects the Windows operating system to be "front and center" in the software maker's growth strategy despite a recent slowdown in personal computer sales. Ballmer made his remarks ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Developers' Preview

Hindustan Times - 15 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has been “reimaging the Windows” for a while now. Finally, they unveil the developers' preview today morning at its Build Conference in California. Here are the features that excited the audience! Have a look. Today, at the BUILD Conference, ...

 

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