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Microsoft kicked off their annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles today. CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage for the opening keynote to boast the company’s Windows 7 accomplishments and to discuss a variety of other Microsoft products, including XBox, Bing, Windows 8, and Windows...

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Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer used his Worldwide Partners Conference keynote on Monday to tout Windows 7's success while trying to downplay the success of the Mac. The most recent OS had now reached 400 million licenses sold, up from 350 million in the winter and still growing faster than XP. He...

Windows 7 continues to charge ahead as a successful operating system release for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed in a Monday keynote at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles that the number of licenses sold worldwide has now surpassed 400 million. More...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened the 2011 WPC in Los Angeles with a broad-based discussion of everything from Windows 8 to the Skype acquisition. Link Removed

So much for not keeping pace, huh? We heard back in June of last year that Microsoft had blown through 150 million Windows 7 licenses , and just a few months later, it had surpassed 240 million . At this year's Worldwide Partner Conference, head honcho Steve Ballmer took great pleasure in...

Microsoft CEOs and CES keynote speeches have gone hand-in-hand for years now, with Bill Gates handing off duties to the always-intense Steve Ballmer back in 2009. Typically, Microsoft makes some pretty big revelations at CES, like the original Xbox. Last year’s speech might have left you...

Tradition lives. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will, once again, deliver the pre-show keynote address at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Source: Yahoo! News

It's hard to believe, but with the show still six months away, we're already getting bombarded with CES -related e-mail. We do have one piece of intriguing news to report at this early stage of the game: Steve Ballmer is set to kick off the festivities with the preshow keynote on January 9th and...

The Microsoft CEO will return to the Consumer Electronics Show keynote stage in January. read more Link Removed

The Microsoft CEO will return to the Consumer Electronics Show keynote stage in January. Link Removed

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is still several months away, but there’s already buzz now that the next-gen operating system dubbed Windows 8 will be at the core of Microsoft’s CES 2012 keynote. According to company insiders, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be taking the stage at...

Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote has not only been narrowed down but may give the first publicly available copy of Windows 8, both official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. CEO Steve Ballmer was confirmed to be taking the stage on the evening of January 9, unusually at Las Vegas' The Venetian...

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MSFT Up Strong Vs. The Market The market is rallying on released economic metrics. The number of people signing up for jobless benefits fell last week, while housing starts and building permits rose last month. Shares of MSFT are up stronger that its peers. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft might not have the best record when it comes to first-party hardware, but with all bets riding on mobile computing and Windows 8, can Ballmer and Co. pull a perfect tablet out of the bag? Link Removed

There's little doubt that the launch of Windows 8 will bring with it a wave of new tablet devices from all sorts of manufacturers and vendors. But did any of us expect to see one bearing Microsoft's own logo? According to DigiTimes' sometimes accurate, sometimes shaky upstream supplier sources...

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer got ahead of himself on Monday when he publicly blurted out a general roadmap for the next version of Windows. Ballmer told an audience at a developer forum in Tokyo that Microsoft will have news to share about Windows 8 on tablets, slates and PCs over the next...

When Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer called the new Windows his company's riskiest bet, not many knew what he meant. The reveal of Windows 8 was laying those cards out on the table: it's a belief that tablets will not only be popular but the primary way to compute. We're of the mind that, much...

Last fall, Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8 was Microsoft's riskiest product ever. He wasn't kidding. We've only seen a demo -- there's no reliable word on when it will ship, what the tablets that use it will look like, or even how much of the demo was prototype versus actual code in the...