Steven Sinofsky,the Microsoft executive in charge of the development of Windows 8 and widely regarded as the future successor to CEO Steve Ballmer,has resigned from the company.He was also responsible for leading the development of Windows ...
PC manufacturers always look forward to a new Windows release, as it invariably boosts sales. Not this time it seems. Compared with 2011, laptop sales for the three-week period following October 26 2012 - when Windows 8 was launched - ...
Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
Microsoft will begin running four new TV ads for Windows Phone 8 tonight,featuring celebrities Jessica Alba and Gwen Stefani and the live tiles interface in the new devices. The main point of the 30-second spots posted on YouTube ...
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After leaving--or losing--his job at Microsoft.Steven Sinofsky will probably not be standing in an unemployment line. The 23-year veteran of Microsoft,and until Monday,its top Windows executive,has nearly 650,000 shares of company ...
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Steven Sinofsky,the head of Microsoft's Windows division and the executive widely expected to be the next CEO,has left the company with immediate effect. No official reason was given for Steven Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft after 23 ...
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Getting to grips with Windows RT's development environments, and converting full-strength Windows 8 apps down to its cut-down RT partner is "nuanced" work that requires "quite a lot [that developers] will need to implement specifically", ...
Tags: Microsoft, Win RT, Win 8, Wade Wegner
Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct. 25. IDG News Service - Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new ...
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 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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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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Driven by millions of upgrades,Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month,but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago. According to data released Thursday by ...
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For users who want a regular monitor,but still want to control Windows 8 using touch gestures,LG Electronics has introduced the Touch 10 monitor. The last few months have seen the introduction of many all-in-ones,tablets and laptops ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second ad. The ad,now accessible on YouTube,was first shown at the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday,where Ballmer appeared onstage ...
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