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A rush of free advice for Microsoft... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:20 am
There's also the Zune, the iPod challenger; the short-lived KIN social media phone OS (which was ahead of its time). And the venerable Xbox gaming console, which barely makes any money for Microsoft. ...
Next CEO's Biggest Job: Fixing Microsoft's Culture 27 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
Whoever succeeds Mr. Ballmer at Microsoft will face the challenge of rebooting its corporate culture, in which charting the safe but profitable course—at least for the short term—too often wins out ov...
The Rise and Fall of Windows Mobile, Under Ballmer 27 Aug 2013 | 06:17 am
For several years, before Apple introduced an iPhone, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software system was a dominant product in what was then a niche category, back when smartphones were still luxury devic...
How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech 27 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
He completely missed the importance of the touch-screen phone. (“There is no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share,” he said in 2007.) He missed the importance of the tab...
Ballmer Exit Brings Microsoft a Chance for Reinvention 27 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
While Microsoft in Mr. Ballmer’s reign as chief executive has yielded the spotlight to more glamorous companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, it still makes some of the biggest money-gushers in the...
Young Tech Sees Itself in Microsoft’s Ballmer 27 Aug 2013 | 06:13 am
These days, it is Microsoft’s turn to fend off the upstarts as it struggles to compete in a computing world that is increasingly mobile and based in a “cloud” of Internet-connected computers to which ...
Microsoft to offer white Xbox One to employees? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
Will Microsoft employees working on the Xbox One get a white version of the console? A Reddit user on Monday posted an image of an Xbox One that the person says, can be ordered by Microsoft employees ...
Ballmer resignation unlikely to quell unease over Microsoft 26 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Last weekג€™s pre-emptive announcement by Steve Ballmer that he is to step down as chief executive of Microsoft looks set to defuse some of the growing shareholder unhappiness about leadership at the ...
Steve Wozniak: Microsoft resting on its laurels 26 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has said that rival Microsoft has been "resting on" the markets it built up a "long, long time ago". He added that Steve Ballmer's time as the chief executive was not...
Microsoft details 3D printing in Windows 8.1 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
With companies like MakerBot creating digitizers aimed at making 3D printing easier, Microsoft is betting that we’ll all be printing offYoda figurines and retirement gifts from our desktops soon. To ...
