Microsoft today revealed some of the changes in Windows 8 due to reach customers in a month, but didn't address what analysts called the biggest barrier to the OS's success. That would be Windows 8 apps, dubbed "Modern" apps, or if one ...
Microsoft customers clamoring for the incorporation of the Start button and menu into Windows 8 will get their wish partially fulfilled in the upcoming update of the OS. Windows 8.1, which will be released in preview mode next month and ...
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A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Modern" app a day, signaling that they're spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style desktop, according to data released Wednesday. ...
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Customer satisfaction with Microsoft's software, primarily Windows, dropped slightly in the last year, likely part of the fallout over Windows 8, a national survey released today said. Microsoft scored 74 points, down a point from the ...
Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company’s history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises to be considered a ...
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Windows has announced that the mysterious Windows 8 update known previously as "Windows Blue" is to be known in the wild as Windows 8.1. Microsoft's chief financial officer for Windows, Tami Reller, announced the free patch yesterday, ...
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Planned Windows 8 update to address complaints and confusion with Microsoft's new operating system will be made available for free this year, the company said overnight. Microsoft also announced a name for the update: Windows 8.1. It is ...
Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
Microsoft's head of Windows development on Tuesday came close to promising that the iconic Start button would return to the Windows 8 desktop, but never made a guarantee. In a 25-minute interview at the Wired Business Conference, Julie ...
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Microsoft today announced it had sold 100 million copies of Windows 8, its first statement on sales milestones since January. In a blog post and interviews with several influential bloggers and media outlets such as the New York Times and ...
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Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps," Chrome OS's souped-up Web apps, is part of its strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ...
Microsoft Took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales on the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Estimates of first-quarter shipments, from both IDC and ...
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Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system. A pair of ...
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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 ...
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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