Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go
Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, new data published showed.
Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, new data published showed.
Apple today again captured top honors in Consumer Reports' tech support ratings survey, besting other computer makers by a wide margin.
Intel's outgoing CEO has taken a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter.
Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system.
Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst at NPD Group said today.
But Microsoft is likely to reap more revenue from the disappearance of XP than will system builders, as many customers will do in-place upgrades to Windows 7 on current hardware.
Microsoft's stock took a beating in trading today after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14% from the year before.
Microsoft's Windows 8 took another knock Wednesday as research firm IDC laid much of the blame for the first quarter's historically-horrible PC numbers at the feet of the beleaguered operating system.
Microsoft today kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support.
Microsoft will start automatically pushing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to customers on Tuesday as a last-ditch move before it drops the original 2009 edition of Windows 7 from support next month.
With accelerating growth in tablets and smartphones and a maturing of OSes, PCs are seeing far less growth in DRAM use.
Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today.
Over the weekend, Apple improved supplies of its new iMacs in the U.S. and several other markets.
Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, according to Net Applications.
Google on Thursday took the wraps off the Chromebook Pixel, a touch-screen-enabled laptop.