Microsoft will release Windows 8.1 to computer and tablet makers in late August, a company executive said today. Tami Reller, the CFO of the Windows group, announced the date during the opening keynote address of Microsoft's Worldwide ...
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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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Windows 8.1 will be made available for RTM - release to manufacturing - during late August. The announcement was made by Windows chief marketing officer Tami Reller during a keynote at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) ...
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Microsoft Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to create the Windows Store only at Best Buy. The comprehensive store-within-a-store will be in 500 Best Buy locations across the United States and in more than ...
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Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors. Outlook will be included with version 8.1 of Windows RT, known previously as Windows ...
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Microsoft today confirmed what many analysts suspected, that it has cut prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT licenses to hardware partners building smaller-sized tablets as a way to drop device prices and juice sales. Analysts questioned ...
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Former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky on Thursday defended Windows 8′s performance in the market, saying, “It’s hard for me to look at selling 100 million of something and not feeling great about it.” Microsoft ...
Microsoft today announced that Windows 8.1, the update later this year for Windows 8, will be free to current users of the operating system, confirming analysts' expectations. Analysts applauded the decision to give away the update. ...
Microsoft's head of corporate communications defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy Tuesday, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news. "We know we're not Apple," Frank ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 update, code-named Windows Blue, will be formally released as Windows 8.1 and will be free for customers who have the new OS installed. Windows 8.1 will be an "update" for both Windows 8 and for Windows RT, the ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 app store failed a test touted by a former Microsoft manager and distinguished engineer as a way to determine an ecosystem's relevance. On Monday, Hal Berenson, now president of True Mountain Group, a technology and ...
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 ...
Microsoft counter-attacked Friday, calling some media coverage of its plans to update Windows 8 sensationalist and an effort to drive website page views. One analyst dubbed the missive by Frank Shaw, Microsoft's head of communications, as ...
Sometime in the coming weeks, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named "Blue," and if so, how much. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on the subject, analysts believe Microsoft won't ...