Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Monday said Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market. “We are still relatively small … I expect the volumes on Windows Phone to really ramp quickly,” Ballmer said, as ...
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As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilise a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for “personal devices,” 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said ...
Lenovo has announced a new range of Windows 8 and RT hybrid computing devices that can function as tablets or laptops. The devices include the IdeaPad Yoga 11, which is the company’s first hybrid laptop/tablet with an ARM processor ...
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Lenovo’s highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 will be priced starting at US$629, the company said. The tablet will have a 10.1-inch screen and become available on Oct. 26, alongside Microsoft’s launch Windows 8 ...
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Microsoft's temporary, or "pop-up," stores will open Oct. 26 and will sell the Surface tablet, according to the company's website. And in all but a few cases, Microsoft will go toe-to-toe with Apple: 29 of the 32 stores are located in the ...
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today called Windows 8 "puzzling" and "confusing initially," but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company ...
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Nokia is planning to unveil a 10in tablet based on Windows RT at the end of February 2013,according to reports circulating in the Far East. While rumours of a tablet from Nokia have been rife for more than two years,the reports suggest ...
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ARM has joined forces with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM’s 64-bit architecture, the company said this week. Ian Forsyth, programme manager at ARM, could not comment on a specific release date ...
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Microsoft's pricing of its Surface RT tablet was called "aggressive" by some analysts today, "mystifying" by others, even as they all remained skeptical that it's low enough to make inroads on the dominant player, Apple's iPad. "It's an ...
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Windows 8 launches Friday, and even if you haven’t been paying attention it’s still not too late to catch up on the essentials of what’s new and significant about the operating system. Here are some frequently asked ...
Samsung announced an ambitious line of Windows 8 mobile devices using the ATIV name on Wednesday, including an ATIV S smartphone with a 4.8-in. HD display and three tablet PCs. The lineup, unveiled in Berlin, Germany during a webcast, ...
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The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablets become must-have personal computing devices, Windows, and particularly Windows 8 tablets, won’t be a ...
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Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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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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