Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
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Microsoft will release a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 on Tuesday, according to a report from a Chinese website, citing the company's head of IE marketing. The Chinese blog iFanr said that the preview, which ...
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Microsoft has filed a patent which appears to describe camera-based monitoring of digital content users to enforce compliance with software licence policies. In other words,Microsoft seems to be patenting technology that allows the ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that sales of its new Surface RT tablets have started "modestly". Ballmer, who took over from Bill Gates as Microsoft chief in 2000, told French newspaper Le Parisien that the new tablets' first ...
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Taipei, Oct.24, 2012 (CENS)--Acer Inc. recently issued an unexpectedly dismal financial report for the third quarter, with consolidated revenue dropping 5.6% quarter on quarter (QoQ) to NT$104.4 billion (US$3.48 billion) and earnings per ...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has advised consumer customers not to downgrade new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the earlier Windows 7. In a message on its support website, HP said that consumer-grade desktop and notebook systems shipped after ...
Computerworld-Microsoft today announced it will issue six security updates next week,including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. The half-dozen updates will patch 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet ...
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Lenovo's CEO said on Thursday he expects the market will gradually move away from entertainment-focused tablets in favor for convertible PCs,which he said can strike a balance between the functions of touch-based tablets and the ...
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Lenovo said Thursday its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13% year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
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2X Software,a global leader in Virtual Desktop and Application Delivery today announced 2X ApplicationServer XG is fully compatible with Microsoft RDP 8 RemoteFX,Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.Full RDP 8 RemoteFX features are supported ...
It seems two separate Surface builds aimed at consumer and enterprise aren't enough for Microsoft, as rumours mount of a third, gaming-focused flavour of the Microsoft tablet. According to The Verge, multiple sources within Microsoft's ...
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IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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Microsoft today announced a new scheme to sell discounted Windows 8 devices into UK schools. The project, called Shape the Future, will see the company team up with Intel and classroom IT specialists RM Education with the goal of getting ...
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Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
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Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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