At a developers' conference in Japan, Steve Ballmer revealed two points about the next version of Windows. It's called Windows 8 -- at least now -- and it's coming out in 2012.
Source: Yahoo! News
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
The same day Steve Ballmer announces that Windows 8 will ship in 2012, the man in charger of OS development joins the D Conference last minute. The planets are aligning around a big Windows 8 debut next week.
Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed...
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis ceded the stage partway through his keynote address to his competitor, who proceeded to announce that Microsoft's Bing Search and Bing Maps products will be "fully integrated" into the BlackBerry platform later this year. Rather than simply supply a stand-alone app on...
announcement
bing
blackberry
bold 9900
bold 9930
competitor
conference
integration
keynote
maps
microsoft
mobile
operating system
platform
rim
smartphone
steveballmer
technology
user interface
windows phone
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers a speech in Las Vegas. Microsoft said Friday it was raising pay for employees to retain "top talent" in the fiercely competitive market for skilled technology workers.
Via Link...
After an impressive return to glory with Windows 7, after the negativity surrounding Vista, Bill Gates Steve Ballmer’s gang doesn’t appear to be resting on their laurels. The apparent goal for the next version of the Windows operating system is … Continue reading
Source: Yahoo! News
Company founder Bill Gates pledges to rescue company from 'third-world' fate
Microsoft today announced that company founder Bill Gates is resuming his former role as CEO effective immediately. The fate of his successor and now predecessor Steve Ballmer remains unclear; for the time being, he...
analysts
bill gates
ceo
change
cloud computing
economy
foundation
health care
leadership
microsoft
mobile
poverty
rescue
software industry
steveballmer
stock market
technology
windows 7
Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8, or to be more precise, the next release of Windows, would be Microsoft’s riskiest upcoming product when interviewed at the Gartner Symposium. No additional information where given by Mr Ballmer, leaving a lot of people puzzled by the answer.
If you’d ask tech...
Steve Ballmer showed off this app in the keynote and we met up with the actual developer to show us the ins and outs of the La Monde app for Windows Phone 7.
Link Removed
More...
Microsoft's widely viewed as a tad late to the smartphone market with its Windows 7 phone, entering a market dominated by iPhone apps as Google's Android platform also rapidly gains marketshare. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer was at Barcelona's...
Steve Ballmer is not shy about switching out management of the Windows Azure group. First we saw Ray Ozzie leave Microsoft. He left after Windows Azure became part of Bob Muglia's responsibilities. Now Muglia is no longer the executive Ballmer wants to run the Server & Tools Business (STB), the...
A longstanding player in the tablet market for the past nine years, Motion Computing has seen Apple blow past it with the iPad. So can it make it up now, and how will Steve Ballmer's coming announcements affect it? Motion Computing was one of the first companies to really try to make tablets...
Microsoft highlighted several tablets running Windows 7 during chief executive Steve Ballmer's opening keynote for CES. They included Samsung's Series 7, a netbook-tablet hybrid with a full slide-out keyboard.
More...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple.
Link Removed
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a subdued keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night, touting the success of the Xbox Kinect and showing off new machines running Windows 7. Many had expected a splashier tablet announcement from the software maker.
Link...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple.
Link Removed
A lot of Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) pre-Consumer Electronics Show 2011 keynote address was pretty unremarkable Wednesday, until CEO Steve Ballmer and reps from the company got around to talking about a few new tablet PCs that use less power to do more and ran Windows 7 during demos.
Link Removed -...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a subdued keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night, touting the success of the Xbox Kinect and showing off new machines running Windows 7. Many had expected a splashier tablet announcement from the software maker.
Link...