Microsoft Calls For Building Bridges After US Elections
A few days after one of the tensest elections on US soil in recent memory, Microsoft has put up a blog post congratulating President and Vice President elects, Joe …
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Windows 10 Search Goes Crazy For Elections
Oh boy, here we go again! The Search feature in Windows 10 is known go to off tangent every now and then, and it just did so once again …
Teens Vie For The Microsoft Office World Championship
report notes, several prizes of $5,000 are up for grabs, in a number of categories including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Six US contests are among the finalists, fighting for …
Lenovo To Continue Selling Small Windows Tablets In The US
reports of American users not interested in small tablets were terribly exaggerated. And although Lenovo, the largest maker of computer hardware, is no longer selling the ThinkPad 8 in …
Lenovo Says American Users Not Interested In Small Windows Tablets
statement that the company was seeing stronger interest in large screen sizes for Windows tablets in North America, and has been pleased with the demand for the ThinkPad 10. …
Windows Phone Slightly Increases Its Market Share In The US
insights from ComScore — which is positive news, considering some previous surveys showed that the market share decreased in the first two to three months of the year. Blame …
Microsoft Celebrates The Opening Of Its 36th Retail Store
Redmond has officially reached another important milestone for its retail outlets. The company has officially opened is 36th retail store in Dadeland Mall in Miami. The new store occupies …
Huawei Windows Phone 8 Smartphone, W1, To Be Sold In The US
Microsoft announced nearly a year back (in June 2012, as a matter of fact) that the Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei would be one of its four partners for Windows …
First Microsoft Store In Michigan To Open With Live Kelly Clarkson Concert
Since becoming a devices and services company, Redmond has aggressive outlined its retail strategy, and one thing that the company is heavily focusing on is opening up as many …
Microsoft Planning To Open Florida Store Right Next Door To Apple
Boy, this sure does give new meaning to the phrase, neighbors from hell. It is no surprise that Microsoft is overly keen to ramp up its retail presence, particularly …
Windows Phone Finally Gathers Some Momentum In The US
If there is one thing Microsoft’s mobile platform is not doing, it’s dominating markets around the world. Windows Phone currently finds itself the underdog in several countries. But it …
Over 540,000 Students And Teachers Use Windows 8 In The US, Says Microsoft
Microsoft Granted Surface Design Patent
Microsoft has big plans for its Surface lineup of devices. And in a bid to make sure that no other company copies its Surface design the company filed a …
Windows Phone Is Now The Third Largest Mobile Platform In The US
File this under statistics that are plain obvious. For what seemed like ages, Microsoft mobile operating systems (Windows Mobile and Windows Phone) had to contend with an insubstantial market …
Samsung Cancels Plans to Launch its Ativ Windows RT tablets in the U.S.
Samsung has canceled plans to launch its line of Ativ Windows RT tablets in the U.S. A company executive, Mike Abary stated that the company’s Qualcomm-powered Windows RT tablet …
US Department of Defense signs big contract with Microsoft – adopts Windows 8
Chalk this up to a big win for Microsoft. The United States Department of Defense has just awarded the software company with a three year $617 million joint enterprise …
Microsoft Forced To Hire Foreign Workers In The United States
The Seattle Times. “What companies like Microsoft seem to want is employees with quite specific skills who don’t need any training and ramp-up time. If you scour the world, …
The first Windows 8 commercial has aired
Will the Windows 8 Consumer Preview also have a US launch?
TheNextWeb: This just in: we have received an invite to an event in Barcelona, Spain, on the 29th of February, which Microsoft is calling its “Windows Consumer Preview event.” …