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Why Microsoft Beats Apple
Wall Street Journal
Granted, when these two have gone head-to-head in the past, Microsoft has come off worse—in tablet computers, music players and smartphone software. Apple desktops and laptops also have gained market share in the past decade, albeit from a small ...
Steve Wozniak on whether Microsoft is more innovative than Apple
Washington Post (blog)
Wozniak said that he had seen "more of the type of innovation" at Microsoft that left him saying: "Whoa, they really changed things drastically. Whoa, they aren't even going in the same direction as everyone else, meaning the iPhone and the Android ...
Retail invasion: Microsoft, Loft, Kate Spade open first storefronts in Canada
Calgary Herald
Microsoft launched its first international location at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre on Friday, featuring the software giant's range of phones, PCs, tablets and gaming systems. Other new-to-Canada retailers opening at the mall included Tesla ...
Microsoft and Sony reveal Black Friday gaming deals
SlashGear
Black Friday is one week away, and retailers are already pumping out their Black Friday adverts to those hungry for some crazy deals. Both Microsoft and Sony have announced the deals that they'll be offering on their gaming consoles and bundles.

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Microsoft To VMware: Thanks For Confirming You're More Expensive
CRN
Microsoft has spied what it perceives as a telling adjustment to VMware's cost calculator for server virtualization, and it is wasting no time calling the industry's attention to the change. Microsoft is claiming that VMware's recently updated Cost-Per ...
Microsoft Has Been A Better Business Than It Has A Stock, But That Is About To ...
Seeking Alpha
Currently Microsoft (MSFT) is attracting a lot of attention thanks to its launch of Windows 8 and many exciting new products based on this important upgrade. However, within all this attention, there is a lot of negative bias applied to this blue-chip ...
Watch out, Xbox 360: Here comes the PlayStation 3
CNET
Meanwhile, Microsoft is selling fewer units. In fact, over the last year, the company has sold just over 12 million Xbox units. So far in 2012, Microsoft has sold a little more than 4 million units. Assuming that trajectory and Sony's sales both ...
Microsoft Is Winning The App Search Wars
Seeking Alpha
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business ...
Microsoft releases IE 10 browser for Windows 7
Madison Daily Leader
Email to a friend printer friendly Printer-friendly. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The latest version of Microsoft's Web browser is now available to the vast audience connecting to the Internet on personal computers running on the Windows 7 operating system.
Microsoft Will Hate Staples' New Ads, Which Say Windows 8 Is Too Complicated ...
Business Insider
Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system -- featuring "live" tiles instead of the folders we're all used to -- is supposed to be simple enough that after a brief period of experimental tapping, clicking and swiping users should be able to figure out ...

Business Insider
Microsoft's SkyDrive Gets New SDKs, Integration With IFTTT, DocuSign and ...
TechCrunch
Just about a year ago, SkyDrive launched a new set of APIs and, over the course of the last year, Microsoft's cloud storage service also rolled out SDKs for virtually every major platform. Today, Microsoft is launching a set of new SDKs for .NET and ...
Why Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple
Huffington Post
Woz spoke at TEDx Brussels this week and his presence electrified the 2,000 people in the audience. Afterwards, I had the great fortune to catch the great man in a characteristically thoughtful mood. We talked about his regrets (none), his optimism ...
Analysis: New Microsoft mantra after Sinofsky - teamwork
Fox Business
After floundering for most of the last decade, Microsoft is trying emulate the way Apple's software and hardware - such as iTunes and the iPhone - work perfectly together; or how Google's online suite from Web search to YouTube and Gmail are seamlessly ...
Another Microsoft Trojan? Sinofsky might just want a RIM job
Register
Analysis You are the Mussolini of Microsoft: you have the engineering operations of Windows and Office running on time, smashing their reputation for lateness. You've run the $18bn Windows business unit for Microsoft, the world's largest software ...
Microsoft opens first Canadian store
Globe and Mail
Last updated Friday, Nov. 16 2012, 5:29 PM EST. Microsoft picked Canada to launch its first retail store outside of the U.S. Microsoft's Canadian president shook hands with shoppers as they visited the store during its grand opening in Toronto. 0 ...
ComScore: Google, Microsoft Increase U.S. Search Market Shares in October
NASDAQ
Google Inc. (GOOG) expanded its industry-leading position in the U.S. Internet search market slightly last month, while Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) share also improved, according to market researcher comScore Inc. The rankings stayed the same across the ...
This Billionaire Has Confidence in Google Inc (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and ...
Insider Monkey (blog)
Part of Shaw's 3Q investment thesis was bullish on tech companies, including Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL). While other major funds appear to be dumping Google, the search ...

Insider Monkey (blog)
New Microsoft retail store aims for 'cool stuff' factor
Total Telecom
The rock band Train will play in the shopping mall parking lot, Wayne Gretzky has been brought in to play video games with a few lucky fans, and Microsoft has gone all-out in an attempt to turn the opening into a spectacle. But even after the initial ...
T-Mobile Names Former Microsoft Executive Mike Sievert as Marketing Chief
All Things Digital
T-Mobile said on Friday that it had hired former Microsoft, AT&T and Clearwire executive Mike Sievert to run its marketing operations. "Mike is a unique creative genius, and his track record as a disruptive force in tech and telecom couldn't be better ...

All Things Digital
Microsoft and its 31000 patents are unsurprisingly fans of the patent system
BGR
It's not hard to find critics of the American patent system, especially if they're judges who feel overloaded with patent lawsuits. But Microsoft (MSFT) sees things somewhat differently, which isn't that surprising considering it has an enormous ...