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Why Windows 8 isn't an iOS copycatCNET - Josh Lowensohn - 16 Sep, 2011Windows 8 running on a desktop, just as it can run on a tablet, or notebook computer. This week saw the latest step towards the release of Windows 8, the next major version of Microsoft's operating system that represents one of the biggest changes in ... |
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Microsoft shows off Windows 8ZDNet UK - 16 Sep, 2011By Staff, ZDNet.com, 16 September, 2011 11:00 At the Microsoft Build conference in Anaheim, California, Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows Division, takes the wraps off of Windows 8, unveiling the company's new operating system in front of ... |
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Windows 8: Half million previews downloaded in 24 hoursRegister - Anna Leach - 16 Sep, 2011Half a million previews of Windows 8 have been downloaded by developers since the software became available on Tuesday, Microsoft has announced. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer stated that it showed the strong ... |
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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: How Microsoft's PC Overhaul Will Take on Apple's iPadPCWorld - Jared Newman - 16 Sep, 2011Windows 8's tablet support was the star of this week's BUILD conference. The new PC OS now stakes its place in the tablet wars. By Jared Newman, PCWorld For Microsoft, the timing of Windows 8 looks to be just right. Here's why. ... |
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Slick-looking, less bloated operating systemIrish Times - 16 Sep, 2011MICROSOFT HAS promised a completely new experience with Windows 8, with the operating system “reimagined” from the chipset up. The company was keen for conference attendees to get hands-on experience with the operating system, handing out Samsung ... |
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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 ... |
Windows 8 Looks Pretty, But It's Way Too Early To Declare Victory (MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Sep, 2011The tablet interface of Windows 8 that Microsoft demonstrated this week looks great, and developers and reviewers are pretty excited about the test version that the company is giving away. But there are still way too many unanswered questions to know ... |
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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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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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