Microsoft Did Not Sacrifice Existing Windows Phone Users For WP8 Microsoft's reveal of Windows Phone 8 this week has been picked up and endorsed by many commentators in the media. With the obvious gaps in Windows Phone 7 now filled, and the debut of a wheelbarrow sized app suite for enterprise customers that must have Research in Motion's sales team on edge, Redmond's mobile operating system looks ready to take on the world, ably backed by the Surface tablet ... Microsoft's Surface Many Annoy Hardware Firms, But They'll Live Microsoft will play it as it lays. If Surface takes off, the company will support it. If not, Microsoft will fall back on idistributing through hardware vendors. Either way, it has to be bold. Nokia shows how quickly a firm can fall from grace. Microsoft and Madison Avenue in Epic Battle Microsoft and Madison Avenue are in a battle unlike anything we've seen for years. They're fighting over the future of Internet advertising, and the $70 billion annual global ad business is at stake. Microsoft may be making own phone: analyst SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking at making its own smartphone to kickstart sales of its Windows mobile software, according to a Wall Street analyst who has followed the company for many years. The talk - unconfirmed by Microsoft - comes a day after the company unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 software, and the same week it announced an own-brand tablet, signaling a break with 37 ... Microsoft's Surface May Annoy Hardware Firms, But They'll Live Now that the dust has mostly settled on Microsoft?s big announcements this week, I thought I?d crawl out from under my rock and go over them a bit. Microsoft Surface Reportedly Wi-Fi-Only, Will Start at $599 Microsoft's Surface tablet will launch as a Wi-Fi-only device, according to a report from Bloomberg . And though Microsoft has remained ambiguous about its tablet's pricing, saying it will be "comparable" to tablets with similar specs, a report from The Next Web indicates the Windows RT model will start at $599, and the Windows 8 Pro model will start at $999. Microsoft's New Model: 'Every Man For Himself' The company will sacrifice its partners if it means beating Apple. Microsoft: First Branded Tablets; Next, Their Own Smartphone? Microsoft?s move into the tablet hardware business may be just the first step in a radical repositioning of the company?s approach to the device market. As you know by now, Microsoft on Monday held a launch event in Hollywood to show of their new Surface line of WIndows 8-based tablet computers. There will be two ... Microsoft Surface: Three keys for success I was somewhat surprised to learn this week that Microsoft had developed a tablet that's actually pretty cool. My expectations were admittedly low when I attended the company's big unveiling event in Los Angeles but once I saw the tablet and played around with it for a bit, I gradually grew more impressed, something I haven't felt about any Microsoft product other than the Xbox in a long time ... Microsoft's Surface is no joke Many have scoffed at the idea that Redmond's tablet will succeed. But there are three crucial reasons to take the effort seriously.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
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