Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low bar set by Windows Vista, according to data from Web metric firm Net Applications. Windows 8 accounted for 0.45% of ...
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Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows “reimagined,” and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system’s use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
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Dell urged Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to drop the Windows brand from the tablet-based RT operating system because it thought it would lead to confusion. That's what Dell vice chairman and president of its PC arm Jeffrey Clarke told ...
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Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind the new OS, is leaving the company, Microsoft announced today. Sinofsky was also the public face for Windows 8 and its new ...
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Toshiba today confirmed ccc: It won't be delivering a Windows RT-based tablet anytime soon. "Toshiba has decided not to introduce Windows RT models due to delayed components that would make a timely launch impossible," the Japanese ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a ringing endorsement to two new HTC smartphones running Windows Phone 8 on Wednesday, raising questions about the status of the much-heralded Microsoft-Nokia partnership. Just days after appearing with ...
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HTC, along with Microsoft, Wednesday introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker's upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X smartphone in California Blue. The ...
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As the countdown clock ticks toward Windows 8's launch later this month, Microsoft has still not shown that there will be enough apps to drive users toward the new OS, an analyst said Friday. Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again ...
Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Microsoft has released the customer preview of its latest version of Microsoft Office, which will be cloud-based and work best on Windows 8. Steve Ballmer announced the preview, claiming Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses ...
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Asus’ first batch of Windows 8 tablets won’t come cheap, at least according to a leaked product roadmap full of pricing details. Pricing for Asus’ Vivo Tab RT will start at $599, and the Intel Atom-based Vivo Tab will ...
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Microsoft will webcast the opening hour of its Windows 8 and Surface RT launch Thursday,the company said today. The keynote,which starts at 11:15 a.m.ET,is the only part of the day-long event in New York that will be publicly ...
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Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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