Seattle: Microsoft Corp has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in the six months since launch, roughly in line with the previous version, but wants to combat sputtering interest in its flagship software with a substantial update to make it easier to use, and compatible with smaller tablets.
Windows 8 is the first Microsoft operating system primarily designed for touch commands, but it has failed to capture consumers' imaginations or make a dent in a tablet market dominated by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.
"Is it perfect? No. Are there things we need to change? Absolutely. We are being very real about what needs to change and changing it as thoughtfully and quickly as we can", said Tami Reller, co-head of Microsoft's Windows unit at the company's Redmond, Washington headquarters last week, where she announced the latest Windows sales figure, a number made public on Monday.
Microsoft will be rolling out an update to Windows 8, provisionally code-named 'Windows Blue', by the end of this year, Reller said. Details of the update will be released in the next few weeks....
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10:08 AM, May 07, 2013
Dubai: A 35-year-old Indian was allegedly stabbed by one of his bosses in Bahrain salesman as he tried to take back his passport ahead of a planned holiday. Radhakrishnan Thankappan Nair from Kerala suffered injuries to his left hand and shoulder and remains in the Intensive Care Unit at Salmaniya Medical Complex. The man had gone to collect his passport but was told he would only be given it, on...
08:11 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Oil companies may slash petrol prices by up to Rs 2 per litre from May 1, sources said on Monday. The sources said that the clarity on the monthly revision of petrol prices was expected on Tuesday. Petrol price were last cut by Rs 1 per litre on April 15, the third reduction in a month. Earlier in April, the price was reduced by 85 paise per litre....
05:53 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Luxury carmakers in India are moving downmarket and shifting production of smaller and cheaper cars to local plants to cut costs, broadening their target market to include young, female and middle-class drivers to boost lacklustre performance. In an effort to raise stuttering sales that far lag emerging Asian rival China, the German big three of Mercedes-Benz, Audi AG and BMW AG want to win buyers outside the ultra-rich with...
07:00 AM, Apr 23, 2013
San Francisco: The ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity emerged Wednesday with the release of two somber reports showing unprecedented declines in the sales of desktop and laptop machines during the first three months of the year. As...
01:00 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Taipei: Hon Hai Precision Industry, the main manufacturer of Apple products, posted a 19 per cent decline in sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, hurt by disappointing demand for the iPhone. From January to March, Hon Hai's sales totaled T$808.97 billion ($26.96 billion), down from T$988.34 billion in the fourth quarter and T$1 trillion in the first quarter last year. "A quarterly decline was expected, but...
12:44 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Car sales in India are forecast to grow between 3 per cent and 5 per cent in the current financial year, an industry body said on Wednesday, following the first drop in sales in a decade in 2012/13. Sales of trucks and buses are seen growing 7-9 per cent in 2013/14 which began on April 1, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said. Motorcycle sales are seen growing...
12:30 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Car sales in India fell an annual 6.7 per cent in the financial year that ended in March, their first fall in a decade, and sales during March fell an annual 22.5 per cent, the fifth consecutive monthly slide, an industry body said on Wednesday. Automakers sold 180,675 cars in India in March, according to data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), as sluggish economic growth...
11:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Liquor sales touched an all-time high in Kerala at Rs 8,841 crore for fiscal 2012-13, show figures. Figures provided by the sole wholesaler of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer, the state-owned Kerala State Beverages Corporation (KSBC), shows that the overall sales jumped from Rs 7,860 crore in 2011-12 to a record Rs 8,841 crore in the last fiscal (2012-13). "By way of taxes, the state government got...
02:34 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Coca-Cola says it's cutting 750 jobs in the US as it continues to streamline its business. The world's biggest beverage maker says the jobs cuts will be across the board and that affected individuals will be notified in coming weeks. The cuts represent roughly 1 per cent of the company's workforce of 75,000 in North America. ...
02:13 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Car sales in India slumped an annual 25.7 per cent in February, the biggest fall in more than 12 years and the fourth consecutive monthly slide, an industry body said on Monday, as sluggish economic growth continues to weigh on demand in the once-booming market. ...
11:02 AM, Mar 11, 2013
LG Electronics said Monday that it has sold more than 10 million smartphones based on the high-speed long-term evolution (LTE) technology. ...
03:40 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today reported 7.89 per cent decline in its total sales at 1,09,567 units in February 2013. The company had sold 1,18,949 units in the corresponding month last year, MSI said in a statement. ...
12:00 PM, Mar 01, 2013
The government on Thursday said it will release Rs 9,000 crore as the first instalment of compensation for losses incurred by states due to reduction in the Central Sales Tax rate, a precondition for the rollout of GST - the indirect taxes regime. It also expressed the hope that a consensus with states on the Goods and Services Tax, which has been in the works for long, will be reached...
03:32 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Twitter Inc said it is opening up its platform to third-party advertising management software, taking another step to establish its ad-based business model ahead of an initial public offering. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Sales of mobile phones around the world fell last year for the first time since 2009 as consumers shunned cheaper feature phones, research company Gartner said on Wednesday. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
A US appeals court rejected Apple Inc's request to fast-track its bid for a sales ban on several Samsung Electronics Co Ltd phones, ruling the iPhone maker could not argue its case to the full appeals court right away. ...
11:24 AM, Feb 05, 2013
UBS upgraded its ratings on Maruti Suzuki India Ltd to "buy" from "neutral," and raised its price target to Rs 2,000 from Rs 1,500, noting the weakening Japanese yen over the past three months would boost earnings. ...
01:00 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Apple Inc missed Wall Street's revenue forecast for the third straight quarter after iPhone sales came in below expectations, fanning fears that its dominance of consumer electronics is slipping. ...
11:00 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has urged a US appeals court to stand by its denial of Apple Inc's request to ban sales of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone while Apple challenges its patent, according to a document filed late last week. ...
12:28 PM, Jan 15, 2013
