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1. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Wednesday, 29 July 2009

   Analyst Opinion - Microsoft has been a key player in the mobile device market since the early days of smartphones with its Windows Mobile Operating System (OS). And because of its affinity to the Windows desktop ...

2. Intel delays Pine Trail-M - report

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 27 July 2009

   ... the T101 Android based netbook after the launch of Microsoft Windows 7, in late October. The news wire gives no reason why Intel has decided to delay Pine Trail-M until the first quarter of next year, ...

3. Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually unsinkable

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 March 2009

   ... Apple hit the new 25,000 App Store applications milestone sometime during this past Thursday night (March 5/6, 2009). To put that figure into perspective, Global Intelligence Alliance estimated (and Microsoft ...

4. Google gives us a small glimpse of what could be

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 02 February 2009

   ... those related to cloud computing.We live in a world trying very hard to move away from individual PCs full of software and stand-alone capabilities, to those based on the cloud computing model. Microsoft ...

5. Firefox 3.1 beta 1: Damn, this thing is fast!

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 15 October 2008

     First Look Review – Installing and running Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is a revealing experience. Just like Chrome reminded us a few weeks ago, the basics of a browser matter. While Microsoft is figuring ...

6. Apple posts 2.1 firmware for iPod touch, schedules iPhone version for Friday

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 10 September 2008

   ... the integrated App Store, MobileMe and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support as well as voice recording functionality, which requires Apple's new $80 earphones that come with a remote and microphone.  ...

7. Android delayed to Q4: iPhone 3G set for slam dunk?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 23 June 2008

   ... mobile phone space, Google assembled 30 industry heavy-weights around the Open Handset Alliance. Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, however, did not join the alliance as they are pursuing their respective iPhone, ...

8. No completely new kernel in Windows 7, Microsoft says

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 May 2008

     Microsoft squashed hopes that the next version of Windows will come with a completely new kernel – a new kernel that had been discussed and presented as “micro kernel”. The foundation new operating ...

9. Windows XP SP3 now available

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 06 May 2008

     After a series of delays, Microsoft has released the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP late Tuesday. The 544.9 MB update can now be downloaded from Microsoft’s servers. Redmond (WA) – After a series ...

10. Update: Microsoft delays Windows XP SP3

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

      It seems that our previous story titled “SP3: A little Windows Vista for Windows XP” was a bit premature: Despite the fact that SP3 is listed in Microsoft’s Download Center, the actual download ...

11. Analysis: How AMD Asset Light will reveal MAD AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    ... by ATI, took the lead of ATI, turned them around, established a partnership with Microsoft, and expanded the company into the desktop, mobile, console, handheld and consumer electronics space. After failing ...

12. Firefox 3 Beta 4 reveals difference in design philosophy to IE8

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 March 2008

      Mozilla has just released the fourth beta version of its next-generation browser. You can’t help but comparing this new Firefox to Microsoft’s recently released beta version of Internet Explorer ...

13. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... ranging from the very beginnings in November 2003 to the shutdown of HD DVD today. The list allows you to recall the role of publishers, hardware companies, the Playstation 3 as well as Microsoft, which ...

14. More than half a million people sign up for Age of Conan beta

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 06 February 2008

    ... product manager Erling Ellingsen told TG Daily.   A successful introduction of the game is actually not just important to developer FunCom and publisher Eidos, but especially for Microsoft’s ...

15. Windows 7 M1: Nothing to get excited about

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 05 February 2008

    Industry Inside - I have been lucky enough to get an early peek at Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7. But if you were expecting dramatic visual changes and a departure from Vista, Milestone ...

16. FCC receives 266 applications for 700 MHz auction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 December 2007

    ... includes Google Airwaves as well as Vulcan Spectrum, which is back by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The list of incomplete applications lists companies including Alltel, AT&T. Chevron, MetroPCS ...

17. HTC delays volume shipments of HTC Shift to January 2008

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    ... Problems related to the integration of HTC Shift's hardware and software caused the delay, said the sources, noting that the Shift will run on both Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Mobile. ...

18. Next Windows OS only three years away?

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 23 July 2007

    Although Windows Vista was hindered by multiple delays before its eventual retail release on January 30, marking more than a five-year gap since the arrival of Windows XP, Microsoft Corp has indicated ...

19. Microsoft delays Vista SP1

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Friday, 20 July 2007

    Redmond (WA) – Microsoft says Vista’s first service pack won’t come until later this year.  Some analysts had expected the software giant to debut a beta version soon, but those ...

20. Blackberry outage hits North America

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 April 2007

    ... is known for its reliability and quickness, often receiving the emails quicker than Microsoft Outlook. BlackBerry emails flow through the Research in Motion network operations center (NOC) and then out ...

21. PlayStation 3 launches in Europe, Sony gives free 46" TVs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 23 March 2007

    ... Sony has an uphill battle to fight, with US sales figures from the NPD group seeing the console lagging behind the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 in month-on-month sales. Sony claims that the European ...

22. The ultimate Vista gadget: A keyboard?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 02 February 2007

    We can think of a million and one ways how to pamper your new Vista PC, but a keyboard would not have been on the top of our list. Microsoft's wireless Desktop 7000 is a visual stunner that goes along ...

23. Microsoft launches Windows Vista

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 29 January 2007

    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, chief executive officer Steve Ballmer and a "Windows Vista family" launched the new operating system Windows Vista today late afternoon in New York. Microsoft ...

24. Vista, Office launch hits Nasdaq

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    Today at its stock trading home, the Nasdaq building, Microsoft cut the ribbon on the anticipated updates to Windows XP and Office 2003 as the business versions of Vista and Office 2007 made their official ...

25. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... the console was delayed several times over the past few months and provided Microsoft's third-generation console Xbox 360 a twelve-month head start. Rumors about possible PS3 delays began to circulate ...

26. Microsoft shows off retail packaging for Vista, Office 07

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 October 2006

    Retail packaging has never been anything special for previous versions of Microsoft's market-dominating operating system and business application suites of software, but Microsoft is changing that convention ...

27. Microsoft reportedly delays release of RTM version of Vista

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 25 October 2006

      Microsoft will delay the release of the RTM (release to manufacturing) version, or build number 5824, of its Windows Vista operating system (OS) to the second week of November from the originally ...

28. Sony cuts PS3 price and adds HDMI to base model

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 22 September 2006

    ... 60 GB drive PlayStation 3. Europeans will pay $499 and $599 for the same models. The price cut of the PS3 comes just two days after Microsoft had announced that it will be offering an Xbox 360-compatible ...

29. Five million users to participate in Windows Vista RC1 test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 September 2006

    Windows Vista is officially out of the beta stage and Microsoft is preparing for the first mass testing of its new operating system. A total of five million RC1 copies will be made available through the ...

30. Mozilla delays Firefox 2.0 until October

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 August 2006

      Microsoft isn't the only one running into snags getting new releases out the door. Mozilla said this week it is pushing back the launch of Firefox 2.0 until mid-to-late October, with Beta 2 now ...

31. Samsung readies 4 GB flash drive for Windows Vista PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 July 2006

    Samsung on Tuesday announced a solid state disk drive that promises to completely eliminate hard drive delays on PCs. The disk is designed to take advantage of Microsoft's ""Ready Boost"" feature in Windows ...

32. Quanta to begin production of $100 notebooks in Q1 2007

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 25 July 2006

    ... data." Quanta shipped 8.8 million notebooks in the first half of 2006, according to Leung. For the complete year, the company expects to ship between 22 and 23 million notebooks. Microsoft, which is absent ...

33. Can Microsoft ever meet the EU's standards for interoperability?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 07 July 2006

    The European Commission meets on Monday to determine the amount of fines it's prepared to levy against Microsoft (a very short meeting, most believe), and again on Wednesday, most likely to impose these ...

34. Microsoft delays Office 2007 release, announces sales layoffs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 June 2006

    UPDATE: The bad news often comes at the end of the week: The Office 2007 release, once slated for this October, is being pushed out indefinitely, to what Microsoft now states to be "early 2007" for the ...

35. Intel's Robson flash technology is impressive, when it works

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 June 2006

    ... Robson inside managed an impressive 30 second start up time. This initial start up is what Microsoft and Intel are calling "Ready Disk." The other facet of Robson is "Application Boost," which describes ...

36. Microsoft expects Adobe to file new EU antitrust suit over portable formats

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 June 2006

    A statement made by a Microsoft official to The Wall Street Journal is the first clear indication that talks between Microsoft and Adobe over portable document formats have broken down. Adobe is the portable ...

37. CE industry growth set to decline despite bright spots, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 21 April 2006

    ... in competition among the consoles, as Sony and Nintendo join Microsoft. With a rise in console prices, Crotty believes, will be a rise in shipments - up 30% this year to 26.5 million units worldwide - ...

38. GDC 2006: Playstation 3 without HDMI

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 24 March 2006

    ... as Sony was not able to run the console through HDMI at 1080p resolution. One of the reasons to buy an Xbox 360 or an upcoming Playstation 3 is the fact that Microsoft and Sony promise the beginning of ...

39. Introduction of Merom and Conroe on schedule despite Vista delay

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... with the idea of closely aligning the introduction of Merom (Core Duo T7000 series) and Conroe (Core Duo E4000/E6000 series) with the release of Microsoft's new operating system. Intel declined to comment ...

40. Three Samsung executives plead guilty in federal price-fixing case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 22 March 2006

    ... clients placed. Micron is believed to have been the company to have tipped off FBI investigators to the scheme, and thus has not been charged as a company. Microsoft was not listed as a victim of this ...

41. Vista in 2007: Microsoft delays an OS, postpones an industry

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 March 2006

    According to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, the delay of the release of Windows Vista until after the holidays was requested by partners, who shall remain unnamed, and who apparently believed a January ...

42. Microsoft delays consumer editions of Windows Vista until January 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 March 2006

    In what Microsoft called an update to its road map, doused with a liberal dose of the term "on track," the company announced today a delay to the release of its consumer editions of Windows Vista, until ...

43. Playstation 3 delay could derail high definition agenda

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 16 March 2006

    ... procure in, say, July or September than in December. What a difference three months can make. All this trouble for this yet-to-be-born console, and we haven't yet mentioned Microsoft's Xbox 360. Given ...

44. Microsoft delays XP for legacy PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 13 March 2006

      Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows XP for legacy PCs, which is based on the Windows Embedded code base. Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows ...

45. PlayStation 3 may face delays due to production costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... the US and Canada. By comparison, Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold 1.5 million units worldwide in the months of November and December 2005. Last November, electronics analyst firm iSuppli performed a teardown ...

46. Microsoft: No delays to Vista Beta 2, 2006 release

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 02 February 2006

    Clearly denying press reports that Microsoft would not be releasing a Beta 2 edition of Windows Vista, a company spokesperson yesterday told TG Daily that comments made last week by co-president Jim Allchin ...

47. Nintendo, portables make up for slump in US game console market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 January 2006

    ... claims NPD, in a very big way, while Microsoft may be solely to blame for a slump in home-rooted console sales. Port Washington (NY) - The spin from analysts yesterday, in anticipation of this week's ...

48. ATI recovering from delayed X1000 chip series

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 December 2005

    ... design used in Microsoft's Xbox 360.  ...

49. Microsoft told it's too slow in carrying out antitrust pact

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 27 October 2005

      A federal judge said she is concerned about delays in implementing a key component of Microsoft's 2001 antitrust settlement with the Bush administration and a group of states. A federal judge said ...

50. StarOffice 8 faces delays, MS pressure

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 13 August 2005

    ... sees wide use in the Linux community, and includes word processing and spreadsheet applications. However, news surfaced late Thursday that the Microsoft Office alternative lost a large contract, striking ...