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Microsoft Must Deliver on Expectations Since The Sluggish Start of Windows 8

Jun 26, 2013

Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...

Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8

Microsoft Today Shipped Windows 8.1

Jun 26, 2013

Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces. The upgrade, ...

Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1 Beta

Microsoft Previewed an Office Application Designed for The Windows "Modern,"UI

Jun 26, 2013

Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...

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Merging The Windows Phone OS Could Give Microsoft a Boost in Attracting More Developers

Jun 5, 2013

Should Microsoft merge its smartphone and tablet/laptop/desktop operating systems into one substantial OS? It's not just a theoretical question prompted by an older "write once, run anywhere" development mindset. Merging the Windows Phone ...

Tags: Unified Dev Tools, Microsoft, Developers

Microsoft Increased The Head Count for Its June Developers Conference

May 15, 2013

Microsoft today said it has increased the head count for its June developers conference, and will sell the extra tickets Wednesday. Saying that it has "made more room" at BUILD, the conference that will run June 26-28 in San Francisco, ...

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Microsoft Had Sold 100 Million Licenses of Windows 8, But How Many Copies Are Being Used?

May 13, 2013

Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used? That's a question Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & ...

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The Iconic Start Button Would Return to The Windows 8 Desktop

May 10, 2013

Microsoft's head of Windows development on Tuesday came close to promising that the iconic Start button would return to the Windows 8 desktop, but never made a guarantee. In a 25-minute interview at the Wired Business Conference, Julie ...

Tags: Microsoft, Windows development

Windows Vista Now Accounts for Less Than 6% of All Windows Machines

Feb 18, 2013

Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6% of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all ...

Tags: Windows Vista, usage share, Windows PC

Microsoft Has Sold 40 Million Licenses of The Windows 8 OS Since Its Launch a Month Ago

Dec 31, 2012

Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. "We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company's most successful products," said Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer and ...

Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, US, IT industry

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Is Now Available for Download

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development ...

Tags: Microsoft's Visual Studio, Windows XP, Windows development

Visual Studio Is No Longer Simply an IDE

Dec 27, 2012

Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...

Tags: Visual Studio, IDE, Microsoft, Windows 8

Ubuntu Linux May Be All Over The News Recently

Dec 26, 2012

Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...

Tags: Ubuntu Linux, DistroWatch, Linux distributions, next month

Apple Has Quietly Hired a Former Microsoft Security Expert, Kristin Paget

Dec 19, 2012

Apple has quietly hired Kristin Paget, a former Microsoft security expert who worked as a hacker for the company to resolve Windows Vista vulnerabilities, to work on its Mac OS X security team. According to her LinkedIn profile, Paget ...

Tags: Apple, MAC, Microsoft, vista, Windows

Microsoft Has Sold 40 Million Licenses of The Windows 8 OS Since Its Launch a Month Ago

Dec 17, 2012

Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company’s most successful products,” said Tami Reller, Microsoft’s chief ...

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