CES 2009: Ballmer Announces Windows 7, Windows Live, Live Search Milestones
During his first-ever Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009 keynote address last night in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the pending public availability of a feature-complete Windows 7, the final version of Windows Live Essentials, and
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No Jobs, No Excitement at Apple's Last Macworld Keynote
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the right move in skipping out on his company's last appearance at Macworld: In a Tuesday keynote address at the conference, Apple had no interesting new products to sell, opting instead to spend mind-numbing amounts of time on
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Xbox 360 Sales Hit 28 Million
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that sales of its Xbox 360 video game console hit 28 million units by the end of 2008, a year that the company described as the console's "biggest ever." Microsoft also made the dubious claim that it has "expanded the
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Home Tech? Work Tech? Increasingly, It's Just Tech
Paul discusses how the consumer market is influencing business technology in ways that are unprecedented.
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On Eve of Macworld, Microsoft Again Highlights 'Apple Tax'
With the economy in freefall, Microsoft this week continued its discussion of the "Apple Tax," what it says are the additional costs associated with using the Mac platform instead of a Windows-based PC. According to the company, the severity of the Apple
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The Day the Music Died: First-Gen Zune Devices Failed for One Day Last Week
For the few people in North America who bought a first generation Zune 30 portable media player, December 31, 2008 will be a day that lives in infamy. On that day, all Zune 30 devices fell silent after succumbing to a weird date-related bug. The fix was
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IE Usage Share Fell in 2008
According to researchers at Net Applications, use of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer, fell from 74 percent to 68 percent of the market by the end 2008. The main beneficiary of that decline was Mozilla Firefox, which jumped to 21 percent usage
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A Look Back at the Top 10 Microsoft Products of 2008
As is so often the case in the waning days of any year, it's been a slow news week, and a short one at that, thanks to the New Year's holiday. So instead of dredging up a tired press release from a third rate PC maker or hardware vendor, I thought it
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Microsoft: No Media Player Vulnerability
Stung by recent high-profile vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer (IE) and SQL Server products, Microsoft this week refuted reports that there was a critical security vulnerability in Windows Media Player (WMP) as well. Critical vulnerabilities are
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Windows Will Continue to Dominate 2009
Windows 7 is on the horizon and Paul gives his thoughts about how the product measures up.
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Amazon Reports 'Best Ever' Holiday Sales
Online retailing giant Amazon.com reported on Friday that it has experienced its "best ever" holiday sales period, bucking industry trends and providing a bright spot in an otherwise disastrous economy. That said, Amazon didn't provide many specifics
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Windows 7 Beta Leaks Early
A pre-release version of Windows 7--build 7000, which is widely expected to be released soon by Microsoft as the Windows 7 Beta--leaked online late last week. The software giant has officially provided this build only to its closest partners, but the
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WinInfo Short Takes: Especially Short Holiday 2008 Edition
A very short and often irreverent look at some of the week's other news. Hey, it's the holidays and this isn't ZDNet: We can't just make up the news. Seriously, it's not my fault. And let's face it, you still have some shopping to do
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Laptop Shipments Outpace Desktop PCs for First Time
PC makers shipped more portable PCs than desktop computers in the third quarter of 2008, the first time that's ever happened. A surge in low-cost netbook computers is credited with the changeover, which had previously been building slowly
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2008: The Year that Microsoft Embraced the Cloud
While the current view of 2008 is one of financial misery, what with the slumping economy and stagnant PC industry growth, this year will likely be remembered in tech circles for far more meaningful reasons. Microsoft, which jumpstarted and then led the
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Praising Microsoft's Most Underappreciated Product of 2008
Paul discusses ResponsePoint, Microsoft's small business phone solution.
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What You Need to Know About Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
If you haven't upgraded to Windows Server 2008 but want to start using virtualization technology, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is worth checking out--for more reasons than just that it's free.
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Microsoft Extends XP Life Again, This Time for PC Builders
Windows XP has risen from the grave so many times, it now has more in common with Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees than it does with other PC operating systems. Though its successor--Windows Vista--has been on the market for over two years and yet another
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of December 19, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including the impending doom of Christmas, an IE 8 release candidate, Xbox 360 woes, a mysterious Dell product line, falling TV sales, an RIAA Christmas miracle, and much, much more
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Yahoo! to Limit Search Data Retention to Just 90 Days
Internet giant Yahoo! this week said that it would limit the time it retains personal data collected during Web searches from 13 months to just 90 days. The change will likely pressure Google and Microsoft to follow suit; both companies currently retain
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