Microsoft's top executives, including CEO Steve Ballmer and the head of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, took the stage in New York today to launch Windows 8 and its sibling, Windows RT. Analysts' impressions were mixed, with some asking, "Is ...
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Microsoft officials on Thursday demonstrated that the vendor's new Surface tablet can withstand a fall from several feet onto a carpeted floor and is strong enough to be used as a skateboard. Steven Sinofsky, the president of ...
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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, president of ...
Kicking off what may be the company's most challenging marketing effort yet, Microsoft has launched its next generation operating system, Windows 8, in New York City. "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC really is," said Microsoft ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will walk away from the "Metro" tag it's been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. "We have used Metro style as a code ...
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Microsoft today announced that it will start selling Windows 8 on Friday, Oct. 26, a little more than three months from now. New PCs equipped with the operating system will go on sale the same day, said Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc ...
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Microsoft's first-time move Tuesday to update Windows 8 before the OS launches is a sign of the company's continued edging toward practices long held by rivals Apple and Google, analysts said today. On Tuesday, alongside the usual Patch ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his bonus shrink a little in 2012 while that of other Microsoft executives rose significantly, the software maker said Tuesday. Ballmer received a bonus payment of US$620,000, about 91 percent of his ...
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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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With just two months to go before the retail launch of Windows 8, Microsoft has yet to price the new OS. Analysts today blamed Microsoft's attempt to accommodate both desktops and tablets with Windows 8 for the lack of information. "The ...
Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company’s most successful products,” said Tami Reller, Microsoft’s chief ...
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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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Steven Sinofsky,the Microsoft executive in charge of the development of Windows 8 and widely regarded as the future successor to CEO Steve Ballmer,has resigned from the company.He was also responsible for leading the development of Windows ...