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After Sinofsky, Microsoft must stop the secrecy, say analysts
Computerworld
"One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that information non-disclosure is a critical component of development," said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that focuses on the Redmond, Wash ...
Microsoft Phone Sales Jump 139% In Q3
InformationWeek
Phone makers sold 4.06 million Microsoft-based devices worldwide, mostly running Windows Phone, in the third quarter, compared to 1.7 million in the same period a year ago, according to market watcher Gartner. That's a jump of 139%, and it pushed the ...
Lawyer Sues Microsoft Over Surface Tablet Storage
ABC News
A California lawyer is suing Microsoft Corp., claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised. Andrew Sokolowski, a lawyer in Los Angeles, claims that he bought a Surface with 32 gigabytes of storage last ...
Microsoft taking aggressive new approach to Windows Phone marketing with ...
The Seattle Times
The new Windows Phone campaign marks an aggressive new approach, in which Microsoft is now telling its own story, instead of relying mainly on its hardware or carrier partners to sell devices on which Microsoft operating systems run. All of this is an ...
Microsoft Lowers Barriers to Entry, Waits for Developers to Arrive
Wired
And Microsoft is working with middleware partners that offer tools that make it cheaper and simpler to port apps across various platforms, from, say, iOS or Android to Windows Phone 8. "When I started last year, partners were almost always happy to ...

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Microsoft's Halo 4 Sales Will Likely Be Undercut by Activision Blizzard's ...
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL For most people, the only tough decision to make mid-November regards where to spend Thanksgiving. But if you're a gamer, the holiday may not be front of mind given the mid-fall rush of high profile game releases. Every year ...
Microsoft, B&N Release Windows 8 Nook App: Is A "Nook Surface" Next?
ReadWriteWeb
Share on: Microsoft, B&N Release Windows 8 Nook App: Is A "Nook Surface" Next? Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have finally delivered a Nook e-reader application for Windows 8 and Windows RT, giving the Surface tablet a dedicated.

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Microsoft will be giving long-time XBL members a free custom Xbox 360
Examiner.com
Long-time Xbox Live users should be on the lookout to receive a free special edition Xbox 360. Microsoft announced earlier today that the company will be sending out specially designed Xbox 360 systems to those "that have been with the Microsoft the ...
Microsoft: DirectX 11.1 with Native Stereo-3D Output Is Exclusive for Windows 8.
X-bit Labs
Microsoft Corp. said that it would not port DirectX 11.1 application programming interface (API) from its latest Windows 8 operating system to older OS platforms like Windows 7 and Vista. The move will help the software giant to encourage transition of ...

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Microsoft reveals Windows Embedded 8 and Windows Embedded Compact ...
Engadget
You, the consumer, probably don't care too much about Windows Embedded 8 and Windows Embedded Compact 2013. But businesses and OEMs, they're pretty psyched. The next generation of Microsoft's light-weight OS offerings will bring the improved ...
Microsoft updates its Windows Embedded roadmap; Embedded 8 Handheld is ...
ZDNet
Microsoft updates its Windows Embedded roadmap; Embedded 8 Handheld is alive. Summary: Microsoft has provided yet another update to its Windows Embedded roadmap. Many products have been renamed. And a new version of Embedded Handheld is ...
Microsoft ships IE10 for Windows 7 preview, hints at launch this year
Computerworld
Online advertising representatives have already called Microsoft's unilateral decision to enable DNT on IE10 as "unacceptable," and they'll likely to be angry when the browser reaches its final milestone on Windows 7. That's because Microsoft will ...
Microsoft: Don't Trust Anyone Over 40
Minyanville.com
Technology has always been a young person's game. When I started covering technology, in 1982, so was leadership at Microsoft (NYSE:MSFT). It was in that year, as a Microsoft corporate timeline at Thocp.net notes , that Jon Shirley was brought in from ...
Sinofsky's Exit Points To Major Microsoft Shakeup
InformationWeek
Let's get one thing straight. Even if Steven Sinofsky, unlikely as it seems, really did intend all along to quit as head of Microsoft's $18 billion Windows unit less than a month after launching Windows 8, the suddenness of his departure wasn't part of ...
Steve Wozniak says Microsoft is more innovative than Apple
SlashGear
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has never been shy to express his true feelings on different topics, and he's certainly not afraid to be honest when asked anything about the company he helped build. During TEDx Brussels, Wozniak was asked questions on ...

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Microsoft And Sony Could Have Had The Wii, Decided To Be Huge Jerks Instead
Uproxx
Nintendo wasn't the first company Tom showed his technology to though — he brought it to both Microsoft and Sony first, and unfortunately for them both companies behaved like, to put it delicately, complete gaping a–holes. According to Tom, Microsoft ...
David Einhorn Trims Apple, Microsoft, Adds GM and Yahoo!
TheStreet.com
Among the many moves revealed in Einhorn's latest 13F filing, is the initiation of a hefty position of roughly 4 million Yahoo! shares during the third quarter. Elsewhere, Greenlight was found to have lightened investments in names such as Apple (AAPL ...
Microsoft in the post-Sinofsky era: What's next?
PCWorld
Sinofsky's product development duties effective immediately fall to Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green who worked under the former Windows boss. Larson-Green inherits responsibility for Windows at a time when Microsoft is transitioning to the ...
3 night Microsoft Excel course offered at area school
The Rolla Daily News
Versailles -- The Morgan County R-II School District Community Education Program is offering a series of technology courses that focus on portions of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite (Microsoft Excel in December 2012 and Microsoft PowerPoint in January ...
When HBR Revealed Microsoft's Secret Playbook
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
I'll never forget the first HBR article I ever read. The year was 1991, and I was a senior executive at Microsoft. The computer revolution was in its infancy, and the nascent tech industry was blazing new trails in both technology and business. At that ...