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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...

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 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...

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...

It appears the head of Microsoft may have some loose lips, CEO Steve Ballmer said in Tokyo this week that Windows 8 will go on sale next year. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week let slip what was already a poorly kept secret: Windows 8 will go on sale next year. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have misspoken when he said Windows 8 was coming in 2012, but now we hear MS will definitely demo a Windows 8 tablet PC next week. So its anti-Apple plans will get their first real public airing--just don't expect Ballmer to be there. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...

When the PR slaps down the chief executive, something remarkable is going on in the Windows saga. All is not what it might seem, however On Monday, Steve Ballmer - Microsoft's chief executive - spoke in Tokyo about what the company has for people (both users and investors) to look forward to. In...

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...

Earlier this week reported that Windows 8 would launch in 2012. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this to developers in Japan. According to InfoWorld, Microsoft issued a statement that says that there... Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft has denied comments about the release of the next version of Windows, despite it being CEO Steve Ballmer who made them at a recent event. “It appears there was a misstatement” Microsoft insists, after Ballmer told Japanese developers that “as we progress through the year, you ought to...

* Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, said at a conference in Japan that the company’s next operating system will be ready for release in 2012. According to UPI.com, Ballmer confirmed the next OS would be called Windows 8.... Link Removed

Speaking in Japan yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the next version of Windows would arrive next year. Calling the as-yet unreleased operating system "Windows 8," he said that the next generation of Windows would be hitting the market on PCs, slates, and tablets. Nothing too...

Microsoft yesterday backed away from comments made by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers that the next version of Windows would be dubbed Windows 8, and that it would launch in 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft on Monday night backtracked on statements from Steve Ballmer about the release of its next operating system. Source: Yahoo! News

No, you can't put money down on a copy yet, but it looks like Windows 8's a-comin' sometime next year. So sayeth Microsoft doyen Steve Ballmer in remarks yesterday. "As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8," said Ballmer, addressing developers in Tokyo...