Microsoft has had an embarrassing fall, fending off accusations by competitors and critics that it has been talking big but still hasn't delivered on CEO Steve Ballmer's boast last summer that gaining a solid foothold in the evolving market for slate computers is Microsoft's "job one."
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Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company.
Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).
Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.
However, Microsoft still...
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One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky...
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It’s not every day that you hear the CEO of a major corporation admit that they wasted time on a product. But Steve Ballmer did just that when talking about Windows Vista. Ballmer stated that “We tried too big a task and in the process wound up losing thousands of man hours of innovation,"...
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I clicked print on a 100+ pdf file, after a minute or so which i guess is the printer gathering enough info for it to start, i get a bsod reference pointer error. This happens every time i try printing the whole file and another pdf that is 90 pages long, yet a small 30-40 page portion print...
For Steve Ballmer fans, Microsoft plans to release a special edition of Windows 7 Ultimate that comes in a package with the chief executive's signature on the front. The software maker did the...
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Windows 7, Bing and security: Mr Ballmer regrets • The Register
You can measure the size of a man's regret by how much he spends to make up for his mistakes.
If you've missed your girlfriend's birthday, for example, then that could be a lolcat.
If you're Steve Ballmer and...
Steve Ballmer will deliver the keynote at Microsoft Tech-ed India 2009 Conference in Hyderabad. There will be announcements related to Windows 7, Silverlight 3, Microsoft Surface Computer, Tata Nano, IPL, etc. and Microsoft will also provide free certification to all onsite attendees.
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http://visitmix.com/blogs/News/Watch-Steve-Ballmer-and-Guy-Kawasaki-Live/
Not exactly relevant to Windows 7, but IE8 and SilverLight will most likely part of Win 7.
Internal email at Microsoft released to public ... (By US Court Judge)
From: Jon Shirley [mailto:JonS@orchard.ms]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:51 PM
To: Steve Ballmer
Subject: Vista
I upraded one of the two machines I use a lot to Vista. The most persistent and so far hardest to fix...
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