Posts relating to “Microsoft” (1093)

 

1. Microsoft’s Windows 8 play: Kill Live, build one login to rule them …

   
   I can tell, Windows Live as a brand is over. Microsoft is moving from it to a single-login system that will be a huge […] components were disparate, and hard to use in concert. Microsoft is fixing that problem, and boosting Windows 8 at the same time […] by moving to ‘Microsoft accounts.’ The login that you use to get into Windows 8 will also be your account login for
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2. Xbox father blames Zune failure on blinkered music industry

   
   Ex-Microsoft exec and shepherd of both Xbox and Zune , Robbie Bach, has admitted that the Zune PMP was a cavalcade of […] the Microsoft behemoth. With Xbox, Bach explained, the team had capitalized on Sony’s mismanagement of the Play […] Station project, particularly in how it evolved from the PS2 to the PS3. Microsoft took the decision – not universally understood
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3. Fault lines: The lesser known wars in high technology

   
   to track, from the sidelines. A firm case in point: Microsoft pulling out of its patent strife with Barnes and Nobel […] dominance of the product category. Microsoft is betting on the other horse, making it the foe of Amazon, at least in this one […] area. Let’s explore two of the more important, and sometimes overlooked, technology marriages and rifts. Microsoft v
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4. With Nook Deal, a Hint of Microsoft Hardware

   
   E-mail Print Microsoft does not make its own hardware products, except, of course, in […] markets, though, Microsoft has been extraordinarily careful to say it wants to create only the software that powers those […] struggling retailer Barnes & Noble offers some tantalizing clues that Microsoft may be rethinking its position on hardware
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5. Microsoft: 30 Years of Hardware and a Few Surprises

   
   Mice-a-Palooza More Microsoft mice than Ive ever seen in one spot. Click here to view this gallery […] . Microsoft has been making hardware for a long time. That’s right — the company best known for its world-dominating operating […] devices have become industry, business and household staples. During my recent trip to Microsoft ’s sprawling Redmond
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6. Microsoft’s partnership strategy: we’ll take what we can get

   
   Microsoft’s   $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble’s Nook business gives the company a piece of an ebook […] Microsoft is now in that particular arena. The news prompted skepticism in many quarters. Our world has changed so much that […] the two hated monopolists of the 1990s – Microsoft and B&N – must cling together to even stay relevant.— Dennis K
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7. A brief history of Microsoft’s e-reader efforts

   
   Although Microsoft invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off on Monday , this isn’t the first time […] Microsoft played the e-book game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas, but it errs on the timing. In fact, when […] Microsoft debuted its Windows Pocket PC platform for mobile devices — a precursor to today’s smartphones –back on April 19, 2000
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8. Apple, not Amazon, is Microsoft’s NOOK Motivation

   
   Barely was the e-ink dry on Microsoft and Barnes & Noble’s $300m NOOK agreement when pundits were questioning the […] wisdom of adding Amazon to the software company’s existing roster of big-name rivals. Microsoft is already under attack in […] foolish and at worst evidence of Microsoft spreading itself thin when it needs to be extra lavish with its strokes. That
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9. Microsofts Nook Deal Boosts B&N, Challenges Android, Doesnt Help…

   
   their nasty patent spat flared up, Microsoft and B&N have buried the hatchet with a " strategic partnership " that has […] Microsoft dumping $300 million into a new subsidiary company. Its a smart investment for Microsoft, since allowing ambiguity to […] &N. The terms of the deal have Microsoft settling its suit with B&N, giving the company a royalty-bearing patent license
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10. Microsoft: $99 and we’ll de-crud your Windows PC

    
    A little-known Microsoft program to banish crapware from new Windows PCs has come under the spotlight, with the so […] $99 there’s another option. Operational for the past few years, but little publicized, the Microsoft Signature […] program offers “clean” versions of Windows PCs from its own Microsoft stores and online store. Generally identical to the
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