Microsoft will hand over its most recent version of the operating system Windows 8.1 to OEMs in late August, Microsoft's Windows marketing chief told its partners on Monday morning. Speaking at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Tami ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to unveil a major restructuring of the software giant on Thursday. The aim, according to sources, is to achieve "functional coherence" and to better align people with corporate goals. That will mean cutting ...
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Microsoft's former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a pay-out for unvested stock in the company, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. ...
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Microsoft is aiming to boost sales of its Surface tablet computers as it makes the devices available for business customers via the IT channel. In a blog post, director of Microsoft Surface, Cyril Belikoff, said that the software giant ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
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 ...
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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Windows RT tablets grabbed just 0.4% of the tablet market in the first quarter, a dismal result that led some tech experts to urge Microsoft to scrap the platform that's in its six-month infancy. "I wouldn't be surprised if they do ...
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Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. For the quarter ended March 31, 2013, Microsoft generated revenue of US$20.5 billion, up 18 ...
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MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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Sales of both versions of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer number just 1.5 million, four months after the software giant launched the devices in a fanfare of publicity. Furthermore, just 400,000 Surface Pros have been sold since its ...
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Nokia in the recentlyacknowledged in a document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft is likely to launch its own smart phone products, "Microsoft’s strategic decision change on operating system business ...
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Microsoft is about to embark on a second wave of Windows 8 client hardware promotions and user education, an executive said Wednesday. "Starting soon, you'll see us do a lot more education of the business user and consumers," said ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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