Posts Tagged Microsoft
July 20, 2008 at 8:49 am
· Filed under Technology ·Tagged Microsoft, PC, strong, Vista
Microsoft says demand for Vista is strong: 180 million licenses sold
Redmond (WA) – There was a small number hiding in Microsoft’s FQ4 (CQ2) quarter release – a number we did not catch initially: The company said 180 million Windows Vista licenses have been sold so far and that demand for the operating system has been growing over the past year. However, if those numbers are right, and if previous sales numbers provided by Microsoft are right as well, then demand may actually be slowing.
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July 12, 2008 at 4:42 pm
· Filed under Technology ·Tagged Asia, console – Microsoft’s, europe, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price this weekend
Chicago (IL) – Rumors about Microsoft planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console, but now there appears to be sufficient evidence that such a move is imminent: Flyers and internal memos posted on the Internet suggest that the price of the Xbox 360 Pro (Premium) console – Microsoft’s volume system – will drop by $50 from $349.99 to $299.99.
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July 12, 2008 at 4:35 pm
· Filed under Technology ·Tagged AMD, DirectX 11, game, Microsoft, Vista, Windows 7
Microsoft to unveil DirectX 11 at XNA Gamefest
Seattle (WA) – Microsoft will take the wraps off DirectX 11 at its annual XNA Gamefest, which is scheduled to take place on July 22 and 23 in Seattle, TG Daily has learned.
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June 27, 2008 at 1:15 pm
· Filed under Celeb, Technology ·Tagged Bill Gates, Microsoft, Technology
As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, we look at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded.
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June 26, 2008 at 9:09 am
· Filed under Technology ·Tagged Ballmer, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
As Yahoo continues to hammer out plans for a corporate reorganization, Steve Ballmer is still eying a possible search deal.
While Microsoft has “no interest” in buying all of Yahoo, top management is still contemplating whether to go back to Yahoo with a sweetened search deal, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.
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June 25, 2008 at 6:32 am
· Filed under Technology ·Tagged Gates, Microsoft
In some respects, this week won’t be terribly different for Bill Gates than the previous 1,712 weeks he has spent working full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded as a teenager. The 52-year-old icon has some one-on-one meetings scheduled with a few of his top technical executives. He has some customer meetings. And, as often happens, he’ll go to the television studio on Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus to tape a few messages for events he won’t be able to attend. In addition, he says, “I hope to write a few memos.”
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