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Microsoft shows off Windows 8ZDNet UK - Sep 16, 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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Will Windows 8 rejuvenate Microsoft's image as a software and technology leader?Wall Street Journal - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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) - Sep 15, 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 ... |
Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet Is Large (and That's Good)TIME - Harry McCracken - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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: Maybe More Ultrabooks Than Tablets, Says NomuraBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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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Windows 8 Nitpicks and WorriesTIME - Jared Newman - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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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Windows 8: The PC Goes Post-PCTIME - Harry McCracken - Sep 15, 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 - Sep 15, 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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Windows 8 key to Microsoft's growth: CEOTimes of India - Sep 15, 2011AP | 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 ... |
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