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Will Windows 8 rejuvenate Microsoft's image as a software and technology leader?Wall Street Journal - 16 Sep, 2011Microsoft 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 ... |
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Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife visionZDNet Asia - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011With Windows 8, the software giant is presenting a counter-argument to Apple's Mac and iPad strategy, suggesting that customers will want one operating system to handle all their computing ... |
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Touch and go for leaner, meaner Windows 8Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - 16 Sep, 2011THERE WAS a sense of anticipation in Anaheim this week, a level of excitement that's usually limited to the under-12s heading to nearby Disneyland. But this week, things were different. Instead of Mickey Mouse ears, T-shirts with slogans such as “I see ... |
The Build conference: What It's all aboutIrish Times - 16 Sep, 2011“Use what you know. Do what you've always imagined”, a large banner outside the convention centre in Anaheim urges attendees. A new event for Microsoft, the Build conference is aimed at software developers and aims to show how the future of Windows ... |
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Ballmer sees Windows as key to growth planUSA Today - Michael Liedtke - 16 Sep, 2011Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 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 ... |
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Microsoft's new feel for touchFinancial Times - Richard Waters - 16 Sep, 2011Here is some unexpected news from the frontline of the tablet computing revolution: the screens full of “apps” that have achieved an almost iconic status thanks to the success of the iPad, may not be the be-all and end-all of ... |
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Windows 8 debuts at Microsoft Build (live blog)CNET - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, gives a preview of Windows 8. Editor's note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component at the end ... |
Windows 8: Side-by-side app viewing is a game changerZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 16 Sep, 2011Summary: Tablets are designed to handle single tasks at a time, but the ability to sometimes run two apps side-by-side as demonstrated with Windows 8 is revolutionary. If you have ventured out on the ... |
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Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife visionCNET - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011ANAHEIM, Calif.--Microsoft, in revealing details of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system this week at its Build developer conference here, has presented its vision for computing in a tablet era that's starkly different from the one offered by rival ... |
Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM support for x86 appsRegister - 16 Sep, 2011Despite prior hints " and a Redmond developer conference that was all about app compatibility " Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky has said that software for x86 Windows 8 systems will not run on ARM architecture. For months, Redmond has promised that any ... |
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Competitive Advantage: Microsoft's Post-Wintel StrategyWired News (blog) - Tim Carmody - 16 Sep, 2011This is why focusing on tablets alone, and specifically putting a future Windows 8 tablet head-to-head against a right-now Apple iPad, is just a mistake. But of course, that's what most tech writers are doing. Paul Thurrott, who runs the ... |
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Are you ready for ads on your computer?Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 16 Sep, 2011By now we're all used to advertisements on our smart phones and tablets " it's the tradeoff we accept for using free apps instead of premium versions. Yet one of the side effects of Microsoft's making Windows 8 for both tablets and personal computers ... |
Windows 8 on ARM Processors: Three Working Tablet DemosPCWorld - Melissa J. Perenson - 16 Sep, 2011Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments all showed working tablet prototypes at the BUILD Windows 8 conference. When do consumers get to vote? By Melissa J. Perenson, PCWorld This week has seen lots of talk about Microsoft Windows 8 coming to hardware ... |
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Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet Is Large (and That's Good)TIME - Harry McCracken - 16 Sep, 2011Almost 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 ... |
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Windows 8 Tablets Won't Run PC Apps, After AllInformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 16 Sep, 2011Apps 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 ... |
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Windows 8 Makes Microsoft A Tablet Contender Against Android, AppleForbes - 16 Sep, 2011Microsoft 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 ... |
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Windows 8 first impressionsCBS News - Chenda Ngak - 16 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 ... |
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Microsoft and IntelThe Economist - 16 Sep, 2011TOGETHER 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 ... |
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Microsoft: Maybe More Ultrabooks Than Tablets, Says NomuraBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 16 Sep, 2011I 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, ... |
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8 Things You Need To Know About Windows 8PC Magazine - Jeffrey L. Wilson, Michael Muchmore - 16 Sep, 2011Microsoft's upcoming operating has many new features, but here are eight of the most intriguing. By Jeffrey L. Wilson, Michael Muchmore The BUILD convention (held this week in Anaheim, California) is Windows 8's coming out party. ... |
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What Developers Are Saying About Windows 8PC Magazine - Sara Yin - 16 Sep, 2011On 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 ... |
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Microsoft Will Keep Windows at Center of Strategy, CEO SaysBusinessWeek - 16 Sep, 2011Sept. 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. ... |
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Microsoft Reports 500000 Downloads of New Windows PreviewBusinessWeek - 16 Sep, 2011Sept. 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. ... |
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Microsoft's Ballmer touts connected devices and the cloudInquirer - Kate O'Flaherty - 16 Sep, 2011By 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 ... |
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Microsoft CEO Comments from 2011 Analyst Meeting (MSFT)Financial News Network Online - 16 Sep, 2011Microsoft (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 ... |
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Windows 8 Nitpicks and WorriesTIME - Jared Newman - 16 Sep, 2011I'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. ... |
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Ballmer: Windows Phone can win third place in mobile!Register - Gavin Clarke - 16 Sep, 2011Sales 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. ... |
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Will tablet developers rush to Windows 8?Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - 16 Sep, 2011Computerworld - 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 ... |
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Windows 8: The PC Goes Post-PCTIME - Harry McCracken - 16 Sep, 2011Way 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 ... |
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Microsoft previews Windows 8ZDNet Asia - 16 Sep, 2011At 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. ... |
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