Ballmer: Windows Phone can win third place in mobile!

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In Windows 8's Shadow, Windows Phone Needs a Hero PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ Did you hear about the hot new Windows Phones announced this week? No? That's understandable. This week's relentless Windows 8 drumbeat was momentarily interrupted by a Windows Phone whisper, before the nation's best-loved, ...
Windows 8 opens door to new chipmakers CNN - David Goldman - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNNMoney) -- The biggest change that Microsoft unveiled in Windows 8 wasn't the radically different user interface or the fact that it will be coming to tablets. ...
Microsoft offers Mango upgrade for HTC phones Taipei Times - Jason Tan - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ Microsoft Taiwan Corp has teamed up with HTC Corp (宏�"電) to offer smartphone users a free upgrade to its Mango operating system (OS) in traditional Chinese, in a move to ensure its latest OS will cater to a wider user ...
Why It's Important that Microsoft Succeeds with Windows 8 TIME - Ben Bajarin - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. ...
Microsoft shows off Windows 8 ZDNet UK - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ By 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 ...
Views \| An open marriage for Wintel Livemint - Sandipan Deb - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎ The PC is going to be around for a very long time yet. And Microsoft and Intel will always have their stranglehold on that business. Is this the beginning of the end of the personal computing industry as we knew it? Is this the first nail in the coffin ...
	iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder's guide The Guardian (blog) - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ You may want to update your kit before you embark on programming for Windows 8. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images It's patently obvious to anyone in the world of IT that app development can be used to create serious wealth. ...
Windows 8: Half million previews downloaded in 24 hours Register - Anna Leach - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Half 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 ...
Will Windows 8 rejuvenate Microsoft's image as a software and technology leader? Wall Street Journal - ‎Sep 15, 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 ...
	Steve Ballmer admits lacklustre Windows Phone 7 sales Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Photo: AP “We haven't sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year. ... I'm not saying I love where we are, but I am very optimistic on where we can be,” Ballmer said on Wednesday in the US. ...
Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife vision ZDNet Asia - Jay Greene - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ With 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 ...
Windows 8: How Microsoft's PC Overhaul Will Take on Apple's iPad PCWorld - Jared Newman - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Windows 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. ...
	Touch and go for leaner, meaner Windows 8 Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ THERE 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 ...
Windows 8 a chance to inspire and encourage Irish Times - Danny O'Brien - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ I HAD a brief flurry with internet popularity 10 years ago when the newsletter I worked on publicised a couple of videos of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at his, well, most Ballmeric. “Developers! Developers! Developers!” he screamed in one, which ended up ...
Microsoft Shows Off Tango Video Chat App On The HTC Titan Washington Post - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ By TechCrunch.com, I've liked Windows Phone Mango since I first laid eyes on it, but the truth of the matter is that most of the features being implemented are merely catching up to competing platforms. The Bing integration and voice-to-text ...
	Ballmer sees Windows as key to growth plan USA Today - Michael Liedtke - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Microsoft 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, 2011‎ The 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 ...
	Microsoft's new feel for touch Financial Times - Richard Waters - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Here 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 ...
	Windows 8 debuts at Microsoft Build (live blog) CNET - Jay Greene - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Steven 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 ...
Upgrading to Windows 8 Developer Preview On a Windows 7 Laptop PC Magazine - Michael Muchmore - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ We've seen Windows 8 in action on a device built specifically for it, but how does the new OS fare on an older, standard PC? By Michael Muchmore We've seen Windows 8 in action on a device built specifically for it, but how does the new OS fare on an ...
Windows 8: Side-by-side app viewing is a game changer ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Summary: 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 ...
	Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife vision CNET - Jay Greene - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ ANAHEIM, 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 apps Register - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Despite 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 ...
Competitive Advantage: Microsoft's Post-Wintel Strategy Wired News (blog) - Tim Carmody - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ This 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 ...
Windows 8 snags an early thumbs-up Computerworld - Gregg Keizer - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Computerworld - Microsoft's long-awaited deeper look at Windows 8 on Tuesday has piqued consumer interest, according to a company that scores online news and social media trends. Interest in Windows 8 exploded Sept. ...
	Are you ready for ads on your computer? Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ By 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 Demos PCWorld - Melissa J. Perenson - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Nvidia, 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 ...
Microsoft's Ballmer maps out the road ahead The Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ (This story is running in the print edition of The Seattle Times today, Sept. 15, 2011. - Janet I. Tu) ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Using a word heard frequently this week in the unveiling of Windows 8, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer laid out the strategy for a ...
Microsoft Can Only Keep Growing The Hard Way: By Clawing For Market Share (MSFT) San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ Steve Ballmer and other Microsoft execs just finished talking to financial analysts for three hours, and while they tried to paint an optimistic picture -- as they always do -- it was really clear that Microsoft has no big ace in the hole to drive ...
Windows Phone 7 sales below expectation: Ballmer Times of India - ‎Sep 15, 2011‎ 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. ...