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Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, is taking on Silicon Valley in a patent lawsuit filed last week.
HP on Thursday confirmed during its quarterly earnings call that it was working on a WebOS-based tablet. The company said it planned to release the device in “early 2011.”
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new video detailing a couple of new features that will be available in its Office for Mac 2011.
The times are changing and the news isn’t good for software giant, Microsoft. For Apple, however, the news is great — 47 percent of students plan to buy a MacBook.
Microsoft’s Mac division on Tuesday released updates for two of its Mac Office editions: Office 2004 and Office 2008.
Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit on Monday said that Office for Mac 2011 will be available in retail stores in late October, just in time for the holiday shopping rush.
Microsoft held its annual financial analysts meeting on Thursday and while it must have been difficult to admit, Apple is getting the better of them.
Microsoft on Wednesday released a few new details about the next release of Office for Mac.
Microsoft exec calls iPhone 4 Apple’s Vista
Now even Microsoft is poking Apple with sticks over its botched management of reception issues that plague the iPhone 4 almost three weeks after its launch. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, compared the iPhone 4 to Microsoft’s failed Vista operating system. The comments came during a keynote speech at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in [...]
We were all wondering what surprises Steve Jobs would have for his WWDC keynote — how about Steve Ballmer on stage.
The Windows era is coming to an end
The domination of Microsoft Windows may very well be coming to an end. I’m not saying that tomorrow we will wake up and nobody will know what Windows is, but the signs of its decline are all around us. The biggest of those signs is Microsoft’s inability to compete in the mobile market, especially against [...]
Microsoft unveils the Kin phone
In its effort to compete with Apple and Google in the lucrative smartphone market, Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Kin One and the Kin Two. The phones are targeted to young people on the low-end of the market. The phones will have access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, as well as a built-in Zune player. [...]
Microsoft employees love the iPhone
Really, it shouldn’t be a big surprise that Microsoft employees love the iPhone, right? Everyone seems to appreciate the design and functionality of Apple’s iPhone. What may be surprising is that 10 percent of Microsoft’s worldwide workforce accessed their email using an iPhone. One Microsoft worker said he knows several colleagues who try to disguise [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday posted on its blog that A/V support expected in 2009 for Messenger would be delayed until March 2010.
Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) is offering U.S. college and graduate students a considerable discount if they purchase Office for Mac Business Edition.
Microsoft’s MacBU on Tuesday said it is offering a few deals on Office for Mac over the holidays.
We all know that Microsoft blatantly copied the Apple retail store strategy, but Microsoft wasn’t content with stealing something that worked, they felt the need to add to it.
I was reading The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs tonight and noticed that Microsoft released a new TV ad for its Bing search engine.
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that “most, if not all” data from the catastrophic server failure affecting Sidekick users has been recovered.
If you use Office 2004 because of its VBA support, you’ll be glad to hear Microsoft is extending support for the suite of applications until January 10, 2012.
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