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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Microsoft's update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options for both businesses and consumers. "The ...
Acer said its net profit for the first quarter grew 55 percent year-over-year, but its revenue continued to decline amid struggling PC sales. The Taiwanese PC maker's net profit reached NT$515 million (US$17.4 million), an increase from ...
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Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market ...
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Microsoft has admitted that it's prepared to make alterations to Windows 8 in order to make it easier to use. At the same the firm has released new figures that show that 100 million licences for the operating system were sold in its first ...
As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said. CEO and founder ...
Intel’s upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and break the “myth” that ARM processors are more power efficient, Intel ...
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Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active ...
Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft's radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very ...
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Acer is waiting for the next version of Windows RT, due in the second half of this year, before deciding whether to release a tablet that runs on that OS. "The plan for an RT tablet is ongoing," said Acer President Jim Wong in an ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch model with a touchscreen. The new laptops are 36 percent thinner and 18 percent lighter than their ...
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Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
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The Dutch government has unveiled a new Bill that would empower its investigators to hack into PCs and servers, install spyware, read people's email and even destroy files - all in the name of fighting cybercrime. The proposed law, ...
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Apple may delay the release of OS X 10.9 because it's pulled engineers from the team to help in a final push on the next version of iOS, according to online reports. A delay won't affect Mac sales, and by all measurements, shifting bodies ...
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