Examining Windows 7's fast start

23 hours ago

TechFlash: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got lots of attention yesterday when he announced that the company has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 as it did any previous version of the operating system in its first month. It's "a fant (Read More)

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Topic: Microsoft

Windows 7 Will Throw Down, But Not Just Yet

1 day ago

GigaOM: The Windows 7 trumpets are blasting with gusto, with Steve Felice, president of the small and medium-sized business (SMB) division of Dell, claiming that Microsoft’s new operating system is fueling a surge in demand for PCs, (Read More)

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Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7

1 day ago

Valleywag: A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all war (Read More)

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Microsoft’s bad image should be a warning to apple... (TheAppleBlog via TechNews AM)

1 day ago

Submitted by mogston from blog: “I’m just wondering why your marketing group can’t do something to try to rein in this next generation, because you’ve got a real bad image out there.”So said a Microsoft shareholder to CEO Steve Ballmer at the company’s shar (Read More)

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Mac ads haunt Steve Ballmer

1 day ago

FORTUNE: Apple 2.0: Shareholders press Microsoft's CEO about Apple's marketing campaignImage: Apple Inc. Those Get-a-Mac ads make "you all look like a buffoon," one long-time shareholder (and father of four Mac-using children) told Microsoft (MS (Read More)

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Topics: Mac, Microsoft, Apple

Apple vs Microsoft Wars Pit Shareholders Against Steve Ballmer [Blockquote]

1 day ago

Gizmodo: This year's Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn't a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smac (Read More)

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Ballmer waxes lyrical about Windows 7 double bubble sales

1 day ago

The Register: Shy about numbers, mindMicrosoft’s shouty boss Steve Ballmer made a few big noises about Windows 7 sales yesterday, by declaring it was jumping off retail shelves at twice the level of its unloved Vista operating system.… (Read More)

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Ballmer: windows 7 flies off the shelves... (Mashable via TechNews AM)

1 day ago

Submitted by mogston from blog: Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has never been too modest about Microsoft’s sales numbers; in fact, throughout the Vista era he insisted that the news OS is doing great, selling better than any other Microsoft OS in history. No (Read More)

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Topics: News, Mashable, Microsoft

Steve Ballmer hallelujahs Windows 7 - TG Daily

1 day ago

Sci/Tech - Google News: TG DailySteve Ballmer hallelujahs Windows 7TG DailyDelightfully understated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally lifted the lid on how well Windows 7 sales have been doing. Previously Ballmer has only told the world that t (Read More)

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Topics: Tech, News, Microsoft

Shareholders ask ballmer about apple... (TUAW via TechNews AM)

1 day ago

Submitted by mogston from blog: Filed under: Analysis / OpinionWhile Bill Gates looked on, Microsoft shareholders asked CEO Steve Ballmer about Apple at their annual meeting this morning... (Read More)

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Microsoft ceo ballmer says windows 7 sales are double its predecessors... (Engadget via TechNews AM)

1 day ago

Submitted by mogston from blog: Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Washington, and news of. (Read More)

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Microsoft CEO Ballmer says Windows 7 sales are double its predecessors'

1 day ago

Engadget: Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Washington, and news of Windows 7 sales came up right away. While delivering the opening remarks, Ballmer said that Microsoft has sol (Read More)

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Ballmer: it "matters" that apple has gained share... (Electronista via TechNews AM)

2 days ago

Submitted by mogston from blog: Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today warned at a yearly shareholders' meeting that the company needed to improve the standing of Windows in the future. The executive was emphatic that Microsoft was still in a comfortable posi (Read More)

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Microsoft says Windows 7 sales strong

2 days ago

Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system. . (Read More)

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Microsoft: Windows 7 Selling Well

2 days ago

WSJ.com: What's News US: Microsoft’s Windows 7 has outsold by two times any previous version of the operating system in the same length of time, CEO Steve Ballmer said. . (Read More)

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Topics: Windows, Microsoft

Ballmer: Windows 7 Flying Off The Shelves

2 days ago

Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft's Windows 7 is its fastest-selling OS ever, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today at the company's annual shareholder meeting.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Windows 7 Delivers A Spike In PC Sales (MSFT, DELL (Read More)

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Microsoft's Ballmer Defends His Company's Performance

2 days ago

paidContent.org: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer hasn’t quite gotten the best reviews lately (Newsweek‘s Dan Lyons recently called Microsoft under his leadership the company’s “lost dec (Read More)

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Exclusive: Yahoo and Microsoft Poised to Finally Sign Definitive Search and Ad Agreement

3 days ago

BoomTown: Yahoo and Microsoft are poised to finally sign the definitive agreement that will govern the complex and far-reaching search and online advertising partnership that they struck in late July, said sources close to the situatio (Read More)

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New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence

4 days ago

CIO - Blogs and Discussion -: BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZoneIBM made a series of moves on the business intelligence and analytics front the other week, including launching a new mashup service for its Cognos 8 software.IBM has made analyt (Read More)

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Microsoft to Launch Zune Internationally, Without Zune HD

5 days ago

Microsoft Watch: If you wanted proof that Microsoft's strategy for its Zune brand involves veering away from the actual Zune HD device, look at its plans for Europe and other international markets: starting tomorrow, Xbox owners in some 18 ma (Read More)

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