Near the end of October, Microsoft Corp. will release Windows 8, its most major update to its flagship operating system product since Windows 7 was released three years ago. A New York-based event
The naysayers are coming out of the woodwork to cast doubt on Steve Ballmer's Windows 8 app strategy. Windows 8 gets its official debut later this month but with just weeksto go, critics
Small business trial customers of Microsoft Corp.'s new version of widely-used productivity suite are giving the new Web-based delivery approach a thumbs up. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in San Francisco on Monday that
Eric Schmidt’s career in the IT industry began long before his leadership roles at Google Inc., he reminded a large crowd at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, last week. The current executive chairman at
Recently, hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital had said that Steve Ballmers continued presence as Microsoft's CEO was the biggest “overhang on Microsoft's stock.”At an investors conference in New York last
Only Microsoft knows how the next version of its Windows operating system will look and what it will be called, but big changes could be ahead for the OS observers refer to as
We were wrong -- so far -- that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO by the end of this year, but we were right that Apple's tablet, whose name wasn't known
Known for his on-stage antics, Steve Ballmer is a rather extreme example of a businessman gone wild. Perhaps he is the greatest actor known to man. Perhaps he's just crazy. Either way, this
That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as "The Dude," the iconic character from The Big Lebowski just had something about him--a kind
The Apple iPad has only been physically available to the general public for a few weeks, and the HP Slate is still a prototype waiting for a launch date, but that hasn't stopped
The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's
Will 2010 be the year the Ballmer era ends at Microsoft Corp? That subject has been swirling around the tech media world after Newsweek predicted that Ballmer will get the boot in 2010.
Last week's release of Windows 7 had Microsoft Corp. executives from CEO Steve Ballmer on down confident that this version of Windows is everything Vista wasn't.The launch of Windows 7 followed the release
At the Windows 7 launch event in Toronto this morning Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged the availability of Windows 7 is significant, at least in part because Vista was not warmly received. Ballmer
