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1. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ... one of the strongest marketing companies in any industry and Steve Jobs is a considered to be a master while Microsoft in recent years hasn’t really seemed to be in their league. This goes to the core, ...

2. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   Microsoft has launched yet another iteration of its infamous Windows operating system. Fortunately, I have chosen to opt out of the Microsoft universe and am well on my way to becoming a loyal disciple ...

3. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... also-rans. Over at Microsoft, despite sitting on a pile of money, an adjudicated monopoly, a vast market share, a devoted following, smart employees, and much more in his favor, Steve Ballmer did very ...

4. SAP's Leo Apotheker dismisses Oracle's bid for power

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... be  considered to be very reliable."  Would IBM or Microsoft buy SAP? Apotheker declined to answer that question. SAP isn't interested in buying IBM, he quipped. ...

5. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... be the last truly great Intel CEO. It is amazing how companies seem to lose their way once a founder that has been so instrumental in driving the company to success departs.  Microsoft just ...

6. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   While the EU is content to slam Intel and Microsoft for billions in antitrust suits, it takes a rather more relaxed view on fellow US giant Google, presumably on the grounds that it's not evil. While ...

7. Word is, Windows 7 for Netbooks won't be crippled

   (Software/Software Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   ... and meaning lots of the hardware community will breathe a sigh of relief. Earlier reports this year suggested that Microsoft might cut down the functionality of Windows 7 for netbooks, because of course ...

8. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 17 September 2009

   ... same incremental increase in consumer demand that Snow Leopard has enjoyed." Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced a major Windows 7 discount for college and university students. Indeed, students can snap ...

9. Microsoft crashes Windows 7 launch parties

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 03 September 2009

   Microsoft has asked its adoring masses in the United States to host a week of Windows 7 launch parties. The Redmond-based behemoth also promised to send party hosts a "special" signature edition of Windows ...

10. It just won’t die: Windows 7 XP Mode RC released

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    Windows 7 is Microsoft’s savior to delete the Windows Vista disaster from its memory. But while Windows 7 will undoubtedly replace Windows Vista very quickly, Microsoft knows that it will be different ...

11. Microsoft: People could still change their mind on Vista

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    In an 11th hour piece of marketing, a top Microsoft executive has said that people might still come to love Vista. Redmond (WA) - In an 11th hour piece of marketing, a top Microsoft executive has said ...

12. Microsoft’s Bing gains, Yahoo drops, Google flat

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained some ground on Google and Yahoo in June. It may only be marginal at first sight, but if we remember that Microsoft’s search sites have been virtually defenseless ...

13. Microsoft beats Google, Lego tops Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Microsoft has moved from second to first place in a list of the 500 brands that the UK public thought were most reliable, distinguished and the best quality. Apple made it into the top ten for the first ...

14. Macworld 2010 to feature Indie developers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... an integral part of computer and electronic expos. For example, the 2009 E3 playing field was undoubtedly dominated by veteran industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. However, a consortium ...

15. Activision demands immediate PS3 price cut

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... year-on-year drop in sales.   A significant PS3 price cut could pose a serious threat to sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii. An 80 GB PS3 currently retails for approximately $400, while ...

16. Microsoft eyes major Xbox upgrade as Nintendo Wii sales plummet

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a major upgrade for its Xbox 360 console. According to 1Up, Natal - Microsoft's controller-free motion control technology - will be integrated into the upgraded unit. However, ...

17. E72: Nokia updates E71 smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... for free for 10 days during the first three months after activation of the device.   The office capabilities have been updated with a new version of Quickoffice, which delivers Microsoft Office 2007 ...

18. Browser wars: Is Safari as fast as Apple claims?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... 93/100 4. IE: 20/100 No surprises here. Safari and Chrome are ahead of the pack, Firefox is improving and Microsoft is trailing with a significant distance. Round 2: Google V8 A browser benchmark ...

19. Sony eyes massive PS3 price cut as EA preps Madden NFL 10

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    ... Creed II Gran Turismo 5 Trico - The Last Guardian Mod Nation Racers God of War 3 A significant PS3 price cut could pose a serious threat to sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii. The two corporations ...

20. Dinging Bing: 5 reasons why Microsoft’s new search engine will fail

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    Opinion – Now that we all had a chance to play with Microsoft’s new Bing engine, are we ready to ditch Google? Are we binging instead of googling? I’d like you to chime in and let us know what you ...

21. Search me! Bing, Hakia & Co. keep Google honest

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 26 May 2009

    ... builds contextual pages on-the-fly. Even Microsoft, long an also-ran in search, refuses to cede ground. Following last year’s acquisition of Powerset, Microsoft is preparing its own next-generation search ...

22. Microsoft’s silly shot at the iPod: Desperate?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... Apple, but would someone explain to me Microsoft’s thoughts and strategy. Someone must have a lot of fun sabotaging Microsoft’s anti-Apple ads. There is no other explanation for this latest ad, another ...

23. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    ... to be 53,900. That puts the current game industry layoffs in the North American market at 12% of the total workforce. On top of the layoffs, at least 13 studios including Microsoft’s ACES Studio and ...

24. Microsoft hitting the social web

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 29 April 2009

    Microsoft launched a private beta of Vine, its new downloadable service designed to allow small organizations and groups to share and trade private information. Users are able to send information, ...

25. Microsoft strikes back at Apple in new ad campaign

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    Microsoft is digging their heels into Apple's back in a new advertising campaign. The software giant takes the stance that Apple just can't continue to price gouge consumers in the much injured economy. ...

26. No recession here: NPD says U.S. gaming industry in good health

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... should be considered a major milestone. Although the current generation of consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all feature online support and expose this functionality to game developers, it took ...

27. Resident Evil 5: Zombie basher saves the day for console makers

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... console market with 47.57 million units sold so far (Japan: 7.88M, US: 21.83M, Other: 17.85M), meaning that Wii sales nearly equals the combined unit sales of PS3 and Xbox 360.Following Wii is Microsoft's ...

28. Apple releases Nitro-supercharged Safari 4 public beta

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... Safari 3 version to an additional link click for download. The company claims Safari 4's Javascript engine is 30 times faster than Microsoft’s IE7, and three times faster than Firefox 3. But while ...

29. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... the smart phone market, which has many similarities to the original PC market, is following a similar path, but with some interesting differences. Some of the players are the same in that you have Microsoft ...

30. MobileMe: File sharing finally arrives

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... on iDisk to some use. Public folder: A limited file sharing Although some of our tech-savvy readers felt that our analysis piece titled "Apple's $99 MobileMe vs. Microsoft's free My Phone" incorrectly ...

31. UPDATED: Microsoft: UAC isn't broken, you just don't get it

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... of the release of the operating system. In a new reply addressed to end users, Microsoft explains that there is more depth to UAC than critics may understand and that there isn’t anything broken ...

32. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    ... will support 3D Vision. 3D Vision is also the only stereoscopic 3D gaming solution to fully support Nvidia SLI, Nvidia PhysX, and Microsoft DirectX 10 technologies." The glasses use a USB connection ...

33. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Microsoft Would you want to reinvent Windows Vista? Steven Sinofsky has exactly that job. Windows Vista is a considerable failure for Microsoft, ...

34. Google stands by net neutrality promise

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

      Google quickly reacted to a story published by the Wall Street Journal this morning, alleging that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are engaging in activity that violates previous net neutrality promises. ...

35. Google Chrome crosses 1% market share again

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... its release on September 4 and hit its lowest share at 0.69% on October 15. Curiously enough, this was about the same time when Microsoft was able to almost match Chrome’s market share with its IE8 beta ...

36. Microsoft interested in Yahoo search deal, again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 December 2008

      We can’t really recall how often Microsoft was quoted to have said that it either was or was not interested in getting a deal of some sort done with Yahoo. As of today, however, it appears that ...

37. Why there isn’t an $800 MacBook Air-like product

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... that could provide such a product would likely be unable to keep up with demand. Yet, even though it is possible to build such a product, there isn’t a single one in the market. Why? Intel and Microsoft ...

38. Microsoft uncertain about Xbox 360 sales potential in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

      Microsoft may have said that it drowned the PS3 in Black Friday sales (no word about the Wii, of course), but the company sings a different tune as soon as the topic changes to the 2009 time frame. ...

39. Windows market share drops to 15-year low

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

      Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years. Even worse, market research firm Net Applications now estimates Microsoft’s ...

40. More dirt in Vista Capable case surfaces

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 16 November 2008

    ... what was discussed between Microsoft, PC vendors and Intel. There seems to be no doubt that Microsoft knew a decision to allow certain Intel systems to sneak into the Vista Capable program may mislead ...

41. Happy birthday, Android!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 November 2008

    ...  and Microsoft's Skymarket. Another key advantage is how exceptionally well Google executed Android's openness promise: There are no restrictions and developers can freely put their applications on Android ...

42. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... the growing Mac momentum is based on better hardware, unique software, Windows compatibility thanks to BootCamp, almost 250 retail stores in eight countries that greet 400,000 visitors each day, Microsoft’s ...

43. Windows 7: A rebadged, much better Vista?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

      As we are patiently waiting to take Windows 7 for a test drive later this month, Microsoft is cautious about promising too much and is making sure that expectations remain low. According to CEO ...

44. Safari 4 beta first browser to hit 100% score in Acid3 test

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... milestone in terms of web standards compliance. Opera closely follows Safari while Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions score the lowest marks. Chicago (IL) - The latest beta of the WebKit engine that ...

45. Dissecting Microsoft’s Seinfeld ad

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 September 2008

      Analysis – “I don’t get it” was the answer we most often heard today when we asked people what they thought about Microsoft’s first Seinfeld ad that aired yesterday. Producing commercials is an ...

46. Google zooms past 60% market share

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 29 August 2008

    ... for their July report, both agree that Google now runs more than three times the numbers of searches of its closest rival and more than twice the searches of Yahoo and Microsoft combined.   ...

47. Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates to star in anti-Apple ads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

      If we didn’t know that Bill Gates will dedicate much of his future time to his charity, we would say that he could be enjoying his retirement from Microsoft as a part time actor, showcasing the ...

48. Google caught up in $780 million lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 01 August 2008

    ... shield Google from Berlusconi’s superstar power. If Microsoft's EU anti-trust case was any indication, the search giant is facing tougher times. It will be next to impossible for Google to beat the EU ...

49. DirectX 11 promises to unlock the horsepower in multi-core CPUs and enable GP GPUs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 31 July 2008

      Interview - Last week, Microsoft held its annual XNA Gamefest developers conference.  During the conference, Microsoft announced major changes for its Games for Windows Live service. Also, ...

50. Microsoft’s Project Mojave: Changing the perceptions of Windows Vista

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 July 2008

      Analyst Opinion - Microsoft just released videos of the “Mojave Experiment”, which basically was a survey session aiming to convince a bunch of folks that Windows Vista is not as bad as they may ...