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| Ex-Windows Chief Seen as Smart but Abrasive New York Times On a warm night in late October, Steven Sinofsky stood on a platform in New York's Times Square, smiling as a huge crowd roared at the unveiling of a Microsoft retail store, where Windows 8 and the company's new Surface tablet were about to go on sale. | ||
| Microsoft, Motorola patent trial starts The Seattle Times For an event at which "RAND royalty," "H.264 standard," "802.11" and other such terms were frequently uttered, the patent trial between Microsoft and Motorola drew quite an audience on its first day Tuesday. In fact, U.S. District Judge James Robart ... | ||
| Microsoft's Windows chief leaves in power struggle The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't going to let anyone get in his way. Not even his presumed heir apparent, who runs the software maker's Windows empire, can stop Ballmer as he pushes the company in a new direction. That was ... | ||
| Will Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky take the fall for Windows 8's shortcomings? Computerworld (blog) Windows chief Steven Sinofsky's unexpected departure from Microsoft has sparked speculation that he's being let go because of a poor reception for Windows 8. If Windows 8 fails, will Sinofsky become the scapegoat? As President of Windows and Windows ... | ||
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| Microsoft releases IE 10 browser for Windows 7 CBS News Although Microsoft is staking its future on Windows 8, far more PCs rely on Windows 7. Microsoft Corp. says more than 670 million licenses for Windows 7 have been sold since its release in 2009. Windows 8 is unlikely to approach that level of usage ... | ||
| Taking a Bat to Microsoft's Heavy Hitter Wall Street Journal (blog) Barry Bonds may have been the best hitter in baseball history. But the Giants didn't win a World Series until after he was gone. That, in essence, is Microsoft's take on the departure of Steven Sinofsky, who until Tuesday ran its all-important Windows ... | ||
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| Google: Gov't spying spiked & Microsoft leads the pack for copyright complaints Network World The United States is leading the race, but in this case, it's a very bad thing. The race is actually "government requests for disclosure of user data from Google accounts or services." The USA comes in first in government snooping with a total of 7,969 ... | ||
| Sinofsky Exits Microsoft: No Good Can Come of This Mashable Microsoft just lost its most interesting leader. With the sudden and unexpected departure of Windows lead Steve Sinofsky, Microsoft essentially is without its own "Steve Jobs." No one really knows why Sinofsky left. His goodbye email reveals a desire ... | ||
| Microsoft Launches IE 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 Tom's Hardware Guide Microsoft reports that Internet Explorer 10 is now available for Windows 7 customers in a Release Preview format. The new browser was originally launched on Windows 8 in both desktop and Modern UI formats, the latter of which takes a cleaner approach ... | ||
| What's more important to Microsoft: Tablets that run Windows, or Office on iOS ... Brian Madden (blog) There's been another round of rumors about Microsoft Office apps for iOS and Android, but the evidence is still shaky. Microsoft still hasn't officially announced anything or even publicly acknowledged that they're planning to bring "real" Office apps ... | ||
| Microsoft Brings Internet Explorer 10 Preview To Windows 7 PCs TechCrunch As promised last month, Microsoft today expanded access to its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, by launching a preview of IE 10 for Windows 7. Previously, IE 10 was only available on Windows 8. The update includes the same standards-based platform ... |
