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China has a massive Windows XP problem
By the time of XP's retirement in April, around 10% of all U.S. computers will be running the OS; in China, 65% of companies will do so.
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Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Admit Windows RT Is Dead
Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant fight against Apple and the far more successful iPad with another TV spot.
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XP's retirement will be hacker heaven
Cyber criminals will bank their Windows XP zero-day vulnerabilities until after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April, a security expert argued today.
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Microsoft: Windows 8.1 to roll out October 18
The free update will kick off in New Zealand. Microsoft has been tinkering away at Windows 8.1 since its June unveiling, so even users of the preview edition will find a few surprises. Read this article by Lance Whitney on CNET News.
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Microsoft says that Xbox 360 season passes will carry over to Xbox One.
If we may paraphrase a sacred text, Microsoft giveth and Microsoft hath taken away. Earlier today, the company announced that the Xbox One would be launching in only 13 markets (as opposed to the originally planned 21), but not all news out of Redmond is bad.
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Google complaints.
Microsoft's YouTube app for Windows Phone is returning to the Store today. After Google forced Microsoft to remove the app, the pair have been working together to create an updated application.
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Dell dumps $299 Windows RT tablet, now cheapest is $479.
The price of a Windows RT tablet at Dell's website went from $299 on Friday morning to $479 for a tablet bundled with a keyboard by the end of the day.
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New Microsoft Tech Turns Any Surface into a Touchscreen
Software startup Ubi, in conjunction with Microsoft, has begun selling a system capable of turning any surface into a touchscreen.
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Windows 8 banned by world’s top benchmarking and overclocking site
Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world’s top benchmarking and overclocking communities. All existing benchmarks recorded by Windows 8 have been disqualified.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
Board of directors initiates succession process; Ballmer remains CEO until successor is named.
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer to retire within 12 months
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unexpectedly announced his retirement on Friday, ending a controversial 13-year reign as the head of the world's largest software
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Apple and Microsoft, Then and Now
If you picked up The New York Times in December 2000, you would have seen very different headlines than exist today. Microsoft was projected to generate revenue of $6.4 billion for the last fiscal quarter of 2000, whereas Apple, the company’s almost-lifeless competitor, was clawing to reach $1 billion in revenue.
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Steve Ballmer names Windows Vista as biggest regret while CEO
On Friday, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer announced that he would be retiring from his position as CEO within the next 12 months. The long-standing executive oversaw many operating system, software and product releases as CEO, but speaking to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, he regret one particular product launch the most: Windows Vista.
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Why are Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung so interested in Best Buy?
Shopping is dead. Long live shopping. Okay, so maybe we should clarify that a bit. Brick-and-mortar stores are becoming a tad bit passé.
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Ballmer forced out after $900M Surface RT debacle
Steve Ballmer was forced out of his CEO chair by Microsoft's board of directors, who hit the roof when the company took a $900 million write-off to account for an oversupply of the firm's struggling Surface RT tablet, an analyst argued today.
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Windows 8.1 is ready, gets released to manufacturers
Word is Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 to manufacturing. There's still no indication that developers or users are going to get the gold bits before October 18.
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Why David Sacks should be Microsoft's next CEO
Appointing Sacks as CEO would be a radical departure for Microsoft. But it's the kind of radical thinking Microsoft needs.
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Ballmer forced out after $900M Surface RT debacle
Steve Ballmer was forced out of as CEO by Microsoft's board of directors because of a $900 million write-off the company took to account for an oversupply of Surface RT tablets.
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Microsoft’s Next Era
The announcement of Steve Ballmer’s retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end to one of the most powerful and interesting “regimes” in technology history. Symbolically, this is likely the closing chapter of an era that was led by Bill Gates, then collectively by Gates and Ballmer, and then more recently just Ballmer.
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Tales of an Ex–Microsoft Manager
Outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer’s beloved employee-ranking system made me secretive, cynical, and paranoid.
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