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1. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... significant' given Microsoft and Sony's disparate console install bases (Microsoft leads Sony roughly two-to-one in the US)?" asked Peckham. "Does the study refer only to gamers who already own both an ...

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. Keep on blogging in the free world

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Monday, 12 October 2009

   ... to inject a point of view and a real person into a community discussion. Blogging is not press releases and mission statements. It's a process. Microsoft has a huge blogging community. You can't shut ...

4. 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 ...

5. August game sales caught in downward spiral

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 11 September 2009

   ... of the Xbox 360," opined Divnich. "I wouldn't be surprised if we begin to see Microsoft and Sony battle for exclusive content on future multiplatform releases as the results clearly indicate that exclusive ...

6. Microsoft releases emergency IE patch

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 28 July 2009

   Microsoft has released an emergency "out of band" security update to eliminate multiple Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerabilities identified in Bulletin MS09-035. According to Microsoft, the vulnerabilities ...

7. Microsoft revenue plummets 17 percent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 23 July 2009

   Microsoft has confirmed that fourth quarter revenue plummeted a shocking 17 percent to $13.10 billion. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.99 billion, ...

8. US game sales down 31%

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 20 July 2009

   ... million in June 2008. Market research outfit NPD Group says the only platform that saw year on year growth was Microsoft's Xbox 360. "The first half of the year has been tough largely due to comparisons ...

9. Bing gets slightly more traffic, flat advertising money

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    As we are waiting for the releases of June search market share rankings from Comscore and Nielsen Netratings, Microsoft reveals that it received about 8% more hits on Bing during the month. Unfortunately, the ...

10. Bethesda to update PS3 owners on Fallout 3 DLC status

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 10 July 2009

    ... date. Or if they're staggering released content. Just any info to keep people happy would benefit Bethesda in any future releases." Another user named Adam wondered why Microsoft's Xbox had "to ruin it ...

11. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... a Microsoft-esque marketing approach in saying it’s already in the pipeline. To its credit, it’s already partnering with an impressive array of hardware and software companies, and will build on the project’s ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... backs up multiple PCs using Microsoft® Windows Home Server Backup or Macs using Mac OS X Time Machine software •    Conveniently schedules the MediaSmart Server to copy and centralize digital ...

13. Apple at its best: Safari 4 an “incredible” success

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 12 June 2009

    ... Safari 4.0 browsers are in use around the globe. Apple somewhat beat Microsoft’s IE8 trainwreck, which gained only 0.09 points on its first day and 0.80 points after three days. IE held about 2.25% of ...

14. Bing, Bing, Bing! Microsoft’s search market share climbs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    I still doubt that Bing will be enough for Microsoft to attack Google’s dominating role in the search market, but if we believe data published by Comscore then it seems that Bing has increased Microsoft ...

15. Kopin releases "golden" Bluetooth gizmo

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ... Golden-i readily accepts a conventional user interface from any host device touch screen, keyboard or wireless mouse.The unit is powered by Texas Instruments' dual processor platform and runs Microsoft ...

16. Nvidia releases CUDA 2.2 with Windows 7 support

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    ... of the SDK introduces support for Windows 7, which Nvidia describes as “the upcoming OS from Microsoft that embraces GPU computing.” We would not quite as far, since Vista has been supported in previous ...

17. AMD releases graphics driver for Win 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. The WHQL (Windows ...

18. No more betas for Firefox 3.5: Browser on track for Q2 launch

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... in late Q2.        Other than it is the case with the beta versions of Safari and Internet Explorer, Mozilla treats Firefox beta software as pure developer software. Apple and Microsoft ...

19. Microsoft releases third anti-Apple ad: It’s Blu-ray!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    Microsoft launched its third Laptop Hunters commercial. This time, there is a budget of $1500 and the target is a fast gaming laptop with a big hard drive. And guess what: They end up with a PC again. ...

20. Win 7 Upgrade: One step forward, two steps back

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 08 April 2009

    Windows 7 Beta testers are being encouraged by Microsoft to downgrade to Vista prior to installing the next Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for testing. Microsoft is actually pleading with users to do ...

21. Firefox hits 35% market share in Europe, 22% globally

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 05 April 2009

    Analysis – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been available for 18 days and remains the company’s weakest web browser at launch since version 3. While the software now seems to be close to 4% market ...

22. Google's Voice Search arrives on Blackberry

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    As of today, Google's headline-making Voice Search feature is no longer the exclusive domain of iPhone and iPod touch. Thanks to a just-updated Google Mobile App application, users of RIM's Blackberry ...

23. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... up in many ways and I am wondering whether Apple is losing its edge. It struck me that Apple has largely seized market leadership from Microsoft and Intel in many, though clearly not yet all, areas and ...

24. AMD releases Windows 7 graphics driver

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    AMD said its Catalyst 9.3 graphics driver is the first “unified driver” to support Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7, including compliance with the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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 ...

27. European Commission rewards Microsoft for playing nice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 March 2009

    The European Commission (EC) today said that it will recall a full time monitoring trustee watching Microsoft as Microsoft’s competitive behavior has improved for the better. Brussels (Belgium) – ...

28. Analysis: Safari 4 lifts Apple above 10% browser market share

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 01 March 2009

    ... the top 5 of browser developers, there were major shifts in beta browser market share. Microsoft saw strong gains for Internet Explorer 8 and Apple hit a home run with Safari 4. Mozilla does not promote ...

29. 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 ...

30. The Microsoft Store: Software boxes on a shelf just won’t do

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Would you drop everything you’re doing to run out and buy the upgrade to Microsoft Office? Would you camp out on the sidewalk the night before the company releases a new keyboard or ...

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. Analysis: Chrome growth slows to a crawl, new features needed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... web interface is now resolved. Hotmail should also now work in Chrome. Microsoft's webmail previously refused to run, reporting that Chrome is not one of the supported browsers. Google noted their team ...

33. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

      Review - A little over a month ago we were able to publish some information and benchmarks on Microsoft’s first Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (IE8) build - that was released to the firm’s ...

34. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... be seeing any WOW! products - quite possibly ever again. Not from Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, VIA, Nvidia, or even the the John Kanziuss of the world - at least not those that weren‘t fully ...

35. Mozilla's chief lizard wrangler meshes mobile and desktop via web

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 15 January 2009

    ... usage share - mainly at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer which fell bellow 69 percent web usage share, taking two out of every three users that IE surrendered. In an updated set of 2010 ...

36. Intel, Cisco and Microsoft look to improve global education

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    London (England) - Yesterday, Intel, Cisco and Microsoft announced a collaborative effort designed to assess global education, transforming global educational assessment methods for the purpose of improving ...

37. Analyst: Windows 7 unlikely to spark 2009 PC sales

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 January 2009

    ... are "still very bullish" and expect netbook sales to exceed 40 million units in 2009. Even with this large increase, however, most analysts are projecting a decline of 2% to 10% in overall 2009 PC sales.Microsoft's ...

38. CES 2009: Microsoft releases Windows 7 beta

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

      Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of Windows 7 Beta to TechNet subscribers during his opening keynote of CES 2009. A public beta will follow this Friday. Las Vegas (NV) - ...

39. Support for IE8 prereleases extended again, final in April?

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Tuesday, 30 December 2008

    Microsoft originally set a deadline for the final version of IE8 for the end of 2008, but many suspected this wouldn't hold. Read the complete story here.  ...

40. Opera releases version 9.63, security and stability fixes

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

    ... been shown to only achieve a 12, despite Microsoft's claims to better support for standards in IE8.  ...

41. Microsoft releases emergency update for critical IE patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

      Yesterday, Microsoft made good on the quick patch promise they had made earlier in the day. It repairs a critical bug affecting Internet Explorer versions 5.01, 6, 7 and 8 Beta 2 which could allow remote ...

42. Microsoft’s Seadragon invades iPhone territory

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

      Microsoft released its first iPhone application this past weekend. But Seadragon Mobile is not only testing iPhone waters, also represents an impressive new technology that can impact the way ...

43. After 15 releases, Google Chrome goes gold

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 11 December 2008

    ... at about 0.9%. These numbers compare to about 0.75% held by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Beta (1 and 2) and about 0.70% of Opera browsers.         Google said Chrome ...

44. MTV and Apple Corps to launch global music ‘project’

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 29 October 2008

    ... a failed cooperation with Microsoft as well as the Rhapsody America joint venture with Real Networks and Verizon, which also never evolved into a serious business for MTV. Other sources indicated that ...

45. Windows 7: Will it be good enough?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 October 2008

      PDC 2008 Preview – Microsoft will give us a first glimpse at Windows 7 this week and will introduce developers to core components of the new operating system. So far, Microsoft used every opportunity ...

46. Microsoft releases critical out-of-band patch for MS08-067

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    For only the second time in two years, Microsoft has released a critical patch to the Windows operating system before the normally scheduled monthly patch release cycle. Today's release is a level 200 ...

47. Microsoft plans critical patch release today

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    Microsoft plans to release a critical, immediate patch for its Windows 2000 SP4, XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008 operating systems. This patch comes outside of Microsoft's normal montly patch cycle ...

48. Mozilla releases supercharged Firefox 3.1 beta 1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    ... a few weeks ago; Mozilla and Apple will be following up with new browsers – Firefox 3.1 and Safari 4.0 – that promise dramatic speed gains. Microsoft claims that its Internet Explorer 8.0 will also be ...

49. Windows 7 gets a name: Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 October 2008

      No more rumors about Vista SE: Windows 7 is all about simplicity and that’s why Windows 7 will simply be called Windows, Microsoft announced today.      Redmond (WA) ...