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| Microsoft, Apple, and the demise of the take-no-prisoners exec CNET Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky and Apple's Scott Forstall may forever be associated with one another in business school case studies on what happens to effective product leaders who can't play nice with the other kids. Sinofsky, who ran the Windows ... | ||
| Microsoft patches critical flaws in Windows 8, Windows RT Computerworld "I'm sure Microsoft is disappointed to have released Windows 8 in late October and have already issued patches for it," said Storms. "But truth be told, a lot of code is reused, and it shouldn't be surprising to see bug fixes in Windows 8. Despite all ... | ||
| Microsoft leads Wall Street lower, but retailers gain Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks sold off late in the session on Tuesday, led by a slide in Microsoft shares, though retailers were a notable bright spot after Home Depot raised its outlook. Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) was the most actively traded on Nasdaq, ... | ||
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| Vets. Dept. Signs $36 Million HP-Microsoft Cloud Deal InformationWeek The five-year, $36 million contract will first see 15,000 VA employees move to Microsoft's government community cloud collaboration offering, Office 365 for Government, with the rest of the agency's 600,000 users to follow over the remainder of the ... | ||
| Is Microsoft Planting Windows 8 Comments? PC Magazine While following the recent hirings and firings at Microsoft, the presence of Microsoft Munchkins is more obvious than ever to me. I cannot prove their existence, however, unless someone finally steps forward and admits everything. If you are one ... | ||
| Microsoft hit by second Office 365 email outage in five days ZDNet The latest service issues with Office 365 hit the same day that Microsoft and Hewlett Packard are touting a big win for Microsoft's Office 365 for Government platform. The pair are moving 600,000 Veterans Affairs users to Office 365 under a five-year ... | ||
| Microsoft, Cisco keep pressure on techs MarketWatch Cisco reported an 18% gain in earnings, beating estimates. See: Cisco earnings rise, beating forecasts. Microsoft shed 4% to close at $27.09 after announcing that Windows President Steven Sinofsky was departing. Microsoft had just rolled out Windows 8, ... | ||
| Microsoft's Halo 4 sales hit $220m News24 San Francisco - Microsoft said its Halo 4 video game racked up $220m in global sales on its launch day, beating records set by previous installments of the hit series. Action-shooter "Halo 4," released last Tuesday, is on its way to reaching $300m in ... | ||
| What Made Microsoft's New Windows Boss Really Nervous Bloomberg (blog) It was in June 2011 when an audience filled with technology's elite was gathered to see whether Microsoft's next version of Windows had the chops to take on Apple. But Julie Larson-Green, who just yesterday was put in charge of all software and ... | ||
| Stocks slide late on Wall Street; Microsoft sinks Businessweek A late slide on Wall Street is leaving indexes with modest losses at the close of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 59 points to 12,756 on Tuesday, a loss of about half a percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up five and a half ... | ||
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| Home Depot, AK Steel, Microsoft, Weatherford among big market movers Tuesday Washington Post The Home Depot Inc., up $2.22 at $63.38. The home improvement retailer said that its net income rose slightly in the third quarter, and it raised its forecast for the year. Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., up $2.27 at $50.97. Thanks to a big jump in online ... | ||
| Microsoft Shares Slump On Concerns About Sinofsky's Exit Forbes After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences. My passion for building products is as strong as ever and I look forward focusing my ... | ||
| Home Is Where The 'Start' Is: Microsoft VARs Say Windows 8 Could Flop In ... CRN The Windows 8 "Metro" and touch-optimized interface could make Microsoft's newest and much-ballyhooed OS a bust among enterprise users, some Microsoft partners predict. According to some solution providers, the new software departs too drastically ... | ||
| Ahead of the Bell: Microsoft shakeup drags stock Salon "The move itself is a surprise since many saw Sinofsky as a possible successor to (Microsoft CE) Steve Ballmer, although with Windows 8 released the timing isn't," Pritchard said. Sinofsky, he added, had a reputation for a "regimented, inflexible and ... | ||
| Why Microsoft May Be Making a Smartphone for China Phil Muncaster MIT Technology Review (blog) The latest reports from Asia have resurrected a popular rumor: that Microsoft is planning to launch its own Windows Phone smart phone and initially sell it in China, where smart-phone use is exploding. However, with a delicate ecosystem of hardware ... | ||
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| Microsoft To Give Window Azure High-Performance Computing Boost Redmond Channel Partner Slated improvements to Windows Azure are designed for organizations engaged in high-performance computing (HPC) analyses, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The improvements include new hardware and management software to help organizations carry ... | ||
| Crossmark portal incorporates Microsoft SQL products Drug Store News REDMOND, Wash. — Crossmark has launched a self-service data portal that it said would deliver business insights in real time to manufacturer and retail clients in the consumer goods industry. The portal, which uses the Microsoft SQL Server Parallel ... | ||
| Mid-Morning Market Update: Markets Mixed; Microsoft Falls; Home Depot Sees a ... NASDAQ Following the market opening Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.22 percent to 12,843.46 while the NASDAQ fell 0.43 percent to 2,891.72 The S&P also fell, decreasing 0.11 percent to 1,378.52. Top Headline In a surprise move after the close Monday, Microsoft's ... | ||
| SAP cozies up to Windows 8 with mobile apps, platform support InfoWorld SAP said Tuesday that it plans to roll out a series of mobile applications for Windows 8, a move that underscores the companies' deep partnership at a time when many observers believe Microsoft's new OS is in for a tough ride. In addition, SAP is ... | ||
| Microsoft Sending Xbox Live Veterans A Custom, Free Xbox 360? Kotaku Australia Sounded largely unexciting, but then we got an email from a reader around the same time with these images, of a console his friend just got in the mail, emblazoned with Xbox Live 10th birthday graphics. In addition to a special box and colour scheme ... | ||
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