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How Windows 8 KO’d the innovative Courier tablet

Pitting product groups against one another is almost as much a part of Microsoft’s culture as complaining about the employee review system or grabbing a free soda from the employee kitchens. Win that Darwinian battle and your group can often find itself at the heart of Microsoft’s next big product push. Lose, and you can […]

Bill Gates: I’m cool with Steve Jobs dissing me

Some relationships become competitive. And some have competitiveness at their core. The latter surely was the case between Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs. So no one could have imagined that Jobs would have offered too many conciliatory quotes in Walter Isaacson’s biography. In an interview with ABC News, Gates says he’s thoroughly and […]

Office 2007 SP3, another Mango phone event and more Microsoft news of the week

Now that Nokia World is over, I’m grabbing a pint (and a planned weekend of fun in London) before heading back to the states. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the Microsoft tidbits I didn’t get to write up earlier in the week: Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service Pack (SP) 3 is out […]

Microsoft earnings insights: On-premises Office still has a lot of life left

As they were last quarter, Office products were a key contributor to Microsoft’s earnings yet again this time around. During Microsoft’s analyst call about its first fiscal 2012 quarter results, the Softies made some noteworthy points about the interrelationship between Office on-premises and Office in the cloud  –as well as about expectations by more than […]

iPhone 4S users seeing yellowish screen tint

Some new iPhone 4S owners are saying that their screens display a yellowish tint, prompting a few of them to dub the alleged defect “yellowgate.” Posting messages at the Apple Support Forum, several of the users say that the screen looks washed out and that the whites look more yellow, especially when compared with the […]

Stallman on Steve Jobs: Tasteless or Incisive?

“I appreciate all RMS has done,” said Mobile Raptor blogger Roberto Lim. “I appreciate what Steve Jobs has accomplished. I appreciate what Dennis Ritchie has achieved. In the end, all these great inventors and innovators together with many others one-upping each other is why I can send this [email] to you half a world away.” […]

Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about $20 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, they said. Those companies include buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, as well as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Russian technology […]

Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse platform. The connectors will be available in CTP (community technology preview) form soon, according to a post this week on the official SQL Server Team blog. […]

Get Alerts When Your Website Hits the First Page of Google

If your web pages do not appear on the first page of Google, your presence is almost invisible on the Internet because most users are too lazy to scroll beyond the front pages. While there are enough good websites telling you how to improve search rankings, Exact Factor is a tool that helps you monitor […]

HTC announces Explorer smartphone

HTC has launched its lowest priced smartphone yet, the HTC Explorer. The handset has a 3.2in HVGA touchscreen and a 3MP camera as well as GPS and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. we were told it will sit below the Wildfire in price, making it HTC’s least expensive phone yet. “HTC Explorer is an easy-to-use smartphone […]

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