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US STOCKS-Microsoft leads Wall St lower, but retailers gain
Reuters
Home Depot shares jump after results, outlook. * Microsoft leads Nasdaq lower after executive exit. * Cisco shares rally after the bell. * Dow off 0.5 pct, S&P 500 down 0.4 pct, Nasdaq off 0.7 pct. By Rodrigo Campos. NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S ...
Oracle Calls Out Microsoft over Vaporware Fantasy
Forbes
Feeling increasingly desperate that it has no real-world answer to Oracle's hot-selling Exadata Database Machine, Microsoft is resorting to Greek mythology by announcing it will overthrow Oracle with a vaporware feature called "Hekaton" that won't be ...

Forbes
Microsoft: Don't Trust Anyone Over 40
TheStreet.com
It was in that year, as a Microsoft corporate timeline at Thocp.net notes, that Jon Shirley was brought in from RadioShack (RSH) -- Radio Shack! -- because Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer needed "adult supervision." The entrepreneurs who created the dot ...
The Cloud Over Apple and Microsoft
Wall Street Journal
The question was raised again Tuesday with the defenestration of Steven Sinofsky, the executive who launched Microsoft's ambitious new operating system last month. Microsoft, keep in mind, has been an amazing company, inventing and defending its ...

Wall Street Journal
Creative Destruction: High-Profile Departures Are Good for Apple, Microsoft
Investorplace.com
The president of the flagship Windows division at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) resigned late Monday. This was quite a development, since he managed the recent launch of Windows 8 as well as the Surface tablet. And about two weeks earlier, a Steve Jobs ...
Did Microsoft's Vision Just Walk Out the Door With Steven Sinofsky? Maybe Not
TIME
But now Sinofsky is suddenly gone. And while I bet his departure will make Microsoft a nicer place to work, I'm not sure that harmony is what the company needs now. Under Ballmer, Microsoft has long operated like it doesn't care about the future ...
Microsoft Windows Shakeup 'Clear Negative' for Shares
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft is the worst performing Dow component on Tuesday, following the departure of Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division and a 23-year veteran of the company. He is leaving the software giant less than three weeks after the release of ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Windows to Go revisited: This early skeptic recants
InfoWorld (blog)
When I got a demo of Windows 8 Enterprise Edition's Windows to Go feature earlier this year at Microsoft's TechEd conference, it struck me as cool but frivolous, perhaps because its intended use case is not what I do. While I may not need to carry a ...
Weeks after launch of Windows 8, Microsoft's Windows guru waves goodbye
Christian Science Monitor
Late last month, Microsoft launched Windows 8, officially inaugurating what Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer called a "new era" in desktop and mobile computing. Now, less than three weeks later, Microsoft is waving goodbye to Steven Sinofsky, the ...

Christian Science Monitor
Microsoft says Direct X 11.1 is exclusive to Windows 8
Inquirer
On the firm's developer network blog, Microsoft developer Daniel Moth said, "DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, just like DirectX 11 was part of Windows 7. DirectX 11 was made available for Vista, but at this point there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to ...

Inquirer