Paris: Microsoft's new Surface tablet - its challenger to Apple's iPad - had a "modest" start to sales because of limited availability, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien. The world's largest software company put the Surface tablet centre stage at its Windows 8 launch event last month in its fightback against Apple and Google in the exploding mobile computing market. "We've had a modest start because...
11:25 AM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Asus has announced the launch of a slew of Windows 8 devices, which include notebooks Asus VivoBook F202E and Asus VivoBook S400, a dockable tablet Asus VivoTab RT TF600TG, and the Asus Taichi dual screen convertible ultrabook/tablet that can display two screens simultaneously. All devices run Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The Asus Taichi is a fusion of notebook and tablet. Lid open, Taichi is a notebook with...
03:10 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Seattle: Days after launching Windows 8, Microsoft Corp is mounting a strong campaign to win over the software developers it needs to kick-start its new operating system. A lack of apps is Microsoft's Achilles heel as it attempts to catch Apple Inc and Google Inc in the rush toward mobile computing. Windows 8, the new Surface tablet and a range of Windows-based phones - all unveiled in the past week...
11:48 AM, Nov 04, 2012
Los Angeles: I've been conditioned just like any other consumer to expect certain things from certain companies. When it comes to tablets, I expect Apple's to look and feel amazing, Google's to seamlessly blend online services such as Gmail and search, and Amazon's to have easy access to its online store. So when Microsoft came out with its first tablet computer, the Surface, I wanted and expected a machine that...
02:01 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Soon after the launch of its most ambitious operating system, Microsoft has been slammed with a patent-infringement lawsuit for using Live Tiles that is core to the new Windows operating systems including Windows 8. According to PC World, SurfCast, a Maine, US, based company, filed its lawsuit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Maine, and is asking for Microsoft to pay for damages...
01:43 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Bangalore: Microsoft India today said response in India to the recently-launched Windows 8 has been overwhelming, and 300 apps developed at the recent AppFest organised by the company in Bangalore are in the process of getting into the Windows Store. Within four days of the launch of Windows 8 last week, there have been four million downloads globally which is "clearly indicative of adoption rate", Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd...
01:54 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft Surface tablet, which was launched on Friday in the US, is available on Tradus.com for Rs 38,840. However, Microsoft has not yet officially launched the tablet in India. The Microsoft Surface Tab runs Windows RT, and has a a 10.6-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen. It uses Microsoft's ClearType HD display technology. The tablet has an internal memory of 32 GB.Its memory can be expanded up to 64 GB....
03:58 PM, Oct 31, 2012
London: Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system to give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares. The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has...
10:33 AM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday the company has sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8, signalling a strong start for its new operating system which launched on Friday. Ballmer, speaking at a meeting for software developers at Microsoft's headquarters near Seattle, said hundreds of millions of Windows systems would be sold over the next year, and the company was seeing strong interest from business...
10:25 AM, Oct 31, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday sales of the company's new Windows 8 operating system, released to the public on Friday, were running at a higher rate than its last release, Windows 7. "We're above where we were with Windows 7," Ballmer told the audience at an event launching new phones running Microsoft's phone software called Windows Phone 8. Windows 7 is the best-selling version...
12:23 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Helsinki: For Nokia, it comes down to this: Is Microsoft's new phone software going to get it back in the smartphone race, or is it going to be too late? After being the top seller of cellphones in the world for 14 years, Nokia failed to meet the challenge when Apple in 2007 introduced the dazzling iPhone that caught the imagination of design-conscious customers and rattled mobile markets. The Finnish...
01:42 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: Panasonic has recently announced the Toughbook C2, a semi-rugged convertible tablet PC that is Panasonic's first Toughbook model optimised for the new Microsoft Windows 8 Pro operating system. The device includes a third-generation Intel Core processor, and delivers approximately 11 hours of battery life. Panasonic claims that this notebook is designed for those in the fields of healthcare, education, field sales, and IT departments. Here are the key...
11:38 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Seattle: US shoppers woke up with mild Surface fever on Friday, lining up in moderate numbers to buy Microsoft's groundbreaking tablet computer designed to challenge Apple's iPad. The global debut of the Windows 8 operating system was greeted with pockets of enthusiasm, but not the mania reserved for some previous Apple Inc launches. Microsoft is positioning the slick new computing device, which runs a limited version of Windows and Office...
12:45 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New York: Can't decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now you won't have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash keyboards and touch screens together in different ways. Some of these configurations are new, while others have appeared and disappeared on the market since at least 2002, when Microsoft Corp. released...
11:50 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Windows 8, Microsoft's biggest ever overhaul of the most popular desktop operating system, goes on sale on Friday. The release of Windows 8 marks over three decades of Microsoft's presence in the operating system market that began in 1981. This interactive timeline traces Microsoft's operating system journey over the last 30 years. Explore. ...
05:59 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: With Friday's release of the touch-centric Windows 8 software, Microsoft continues more than three decades of making operating systems for personal computers. Microsoft got its start on PCs in 1981 through a partnership with IBM. Microsoft made the software that ran IBM's hardware, and later machines made by other manufacturers. That first operating system was called MS-DOS and required people to type instructions to complete tasks such as...
01:14 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: Microsoft unveiled a radical redesign of its world-dominating Windows operating system on Thursday, introducing a touch-enabled interface that attempts to bridge the gap between personal computers and fast-growing mobile devices powered by the company's fiercest competitors. The debut of Windows 8 heralded the biggest change to the system since 1995, when the company first offered built-in Internet support. And with so much riding on it, the overhaul could...
06:00 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: One of the biggest changes with Windows 8 is the disappearance of the familiar start button at the lower left corner of the screen. There will be a new screen filled with a colourful array of tiles, each leading to a different application, task or collection of files. After his keynote in New York on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked by The Associated Press whether there...
01:09 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: Microsoft launched its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet on Thursday in a bid to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple and Google in mobile computing. "We've reimagined Windows and we've reimagined the whole PC industry," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters Television. Windows 8 devices and the company's new Surface tablet, which aims to challenge Apple's popular iPad...
11:51 PM, Oct 25, 2012
