Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, ...
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Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, joining a number of other large competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple who are said to be working on similar devices, a newspaper reported. Executives at suppliers ...
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A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said. Worldwide PC shipments in the ...
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools, an upgrade that deepens its ability to manage Windows 8 PC deployments. MDOP 2013, available now via download for the ...
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A purported Microsoft roadmap for future releases of its Office suite showed a fall 2014 launch date for Office on Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems, an online report said today. Mary-Jo Foley, who blogs at ZDNet, ...
Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report was published just hours after research firms IDC and Gartner spelled out a ...
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Microsoft’s stock took a beating over the weekend after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14 percent from the year before. As of 4pm on Thursday, shares of Microsoft were down ...
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In just one year, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates for?Windows XP, the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft issued several?blog posts?Monday urging businesses to get out before it was ...
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MICROSOFT'S Windows 8 operating systems and new form factors such as ultrabooks not only have failed to lift the lift the PC markets, they've presided over a massive decline. Worldwide sales of personal computers slid 13.9 per cent in the ...
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THE ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity ...
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MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, according to the latest report from research ...
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Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday. "We think this is going to ...
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Shares of PC-related companies have slumped as IDC said PC sales fell 14% in Q1 compared to Q12012. IDC called the magnitude of the decline "surprising and worrisome." "The Windows 8 launch not only didn't provide a positive boost to ...
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Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console is going to use AMD processors. Bloomberg reports that sources close to the "Xbox 720" games system say it will use an AMD computer chip instead of the IBM Power PC, as Microsoft looks to reduce ...
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