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Windows 8 tablets are bad business

, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft’s Surface Pro has company, with Lenovo revealing its own Windows 8 slate, the ThinkPad Tablet 2, targeting the all-important enterprise segment. Like the higher-spec Surface, Lenovo’s new tablet has content-creation features like a digital pen and all the remote management your IT team demands; it also has the more flexible full version of Windows 8, rather than Windows RT. And, like Microsoft, Lenovo is playing pricing cards close to its chest. One thing is already becoming clear, however: Windows 8 may well struggle to compete in business markets.

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Microsoft officially leaving Windows 8 Metro brand in the dust

, Aug 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft confirmed today that it will indeed be ditching the Metro branding for Windows 8, and said it plans to introduce a new brand sometime later this week. We had a feeling that something like this was going to happen, thanks to this week's leak of internal Microsoft memos which signaled such a change. Apparently, Microsoft's decision to dump the branding comes from talks with "an important European partner" that left the company without much choice in the matter. To put it simply, Microsoft probably picked the term "Metro" without realizing that one its partners already held the trademark. Read The Full Story

Microsoft admits that Surface may hurt partner relations

, Jul 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft is taking quite a risk by producing and releasing its own Windows 8-based tablet. While the company maintains that it isn’t trying to compete with its OEM partners, Acer has been vocal about the move, with reports also indicating that manufacturers weren’t exactly thrilled with the Surface announcement. In a new document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission discovered by the New York Times, Microsoft admitted that the releases of its own tablet could weaken support among its Windows partners. Read The Full Story

Dell aiming for HP’s abandoned place in Windows RT tablet OEM lockdown

, Jul 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Dell is reportedly jockeying to join the Windows RT tablet club, petitioning Microsoft to take HP's spot in the strictly-controlled roster of companies permitted to create ARM-based Windows slates. With HP dropping out of RT development in favor of focusing on Windows 8 models instead, Dell is in talks to replace it, the China Times reports, seemingly confirming previous reports that Microsoft is putting a six-company limit on who can build one of the first wave of Windows RT tablet models (including its own Surface). Read The Full Story

Is Microsoft’s Windows $0.99 app omission madness, money or moral?

, Jul 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

When you’re trying to kick-start your tablet platform, apps are everything, so why has Microsoft decided to opt out of the most common price point in recent years: the $0.99 app? Confirmation this weekend that Windows 8 and Windows RT users would be offered paid apps as well as free (unsurprising) and that developers would be able to price their wares from $1.49 to $999.99 (surprising) is a distinct departure from Apple and Google’s strategy. According to the stereotypes, iOS users love paying for apps while Android users only download free ones (or steal them until the apps are made free out of exasperation), but what do Windows tablet owners do?

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Where’s Nokia’s tablet strategy?

, Jul 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia's Q2 2012 financial results are a difficult mixture of hope - twice as many Windows Phone sales as Q1 - and misery - a $1bn operating loss - but one thing was conspicuous by its absence: a tablet. The Finnish company is still in "transition" mode, senior execs reminded us, with the promise of next-gen Microsoft OSes just around the corner to shake up the Android and iOS battle once more. However, Nokia's complete absence of a visible tablet strategy went unchallenged. Read The Full Story

European Commission investigating Windows 8 browser options

, Jul 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft found itself in a tough spot this week as the European Commission announced that it would investigate the lack of a browser choice screen on PCs Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Microsoft responded by saying that a technical glitch prevented PCs from seeing the option screen, and offered to extend the compliance period. The company may still face sanctions, and now the European Commission has set its sights on Windows 8 for a similar issue. Read The Full Story

Microsoft readying Wedge keyboard with new Window 8 logo

, Jul 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft may be preparing a massive software launch for Windows 8 later this year, but it looks like the company is also readying some new accessories to go along with the update. A new keyboard made by Microsoft has been spotted by Czech site WinMAG that seems to be designed for portable use with mobile devices like tablets. On top of that, the keyboard will feature the new Windows logo. Read The Full Story

OneNote MX should be Microsoft’s Windows 8 content creation hub

, Jul 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

The importance of Office 2013 to Microsoft’s bottom line can’t be understated, and yet the company faces no small amount of ridicule amid questions of whether the productivity suite is “relevant” any longer. With Windows 8 fast approaching, and long-standing arguments over whether tablets are for content creation or merely consumption, Office or its Metro-styled MX variant for Windows RT slates hasn’t necessarily proved the selling point Microsoft may have hoped it might. The company already has that wildcard, though, and it’s been fermenting away under Microsoft’s nose for a decade.

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Ballmer: Microsoft will leave “no space uncovered that is Apple’s”

, Jul 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft will challenge Apple in every aspect of software and hardware innovation, CEO Steve Ballmer has warned his Cupertino rivals, promising that “we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple.” The rambunctious chief exec insisted Microsoft would not sit back on its enterprise range and cede the consumer segment to Apple, telling CRN that “we are not going to let any piece of this [go uncontested] … not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation.”

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Microsoft Surface magnesium case reportedly hit by low yields

, Jul 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft ruffled more than a few feathers when it introduced its Surface tablet, although pricing and availability details were scarce at the event in June. One of the key features of the tablet was its premium magnesium construction featuring an integrated kickstand. Digitimes reports that Microsoft is seeing low yields with the case construction method, with the publication citing upstream supply chain sources. Read The Full Story

Samsung Windows RT tablet tipped for October with Qualcomm chip

, Jul 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung’s first Windows RT tablet will drop in October, sources have claimed, running Microsoft’s slate-version of Windows 8 on ARM processors from Qualcomm. The tablet’s release is expected to be alongside initial availability of Windows RT models, Bloomberg‘s insiders say, despite high-profile drop outs such as HP deciding not to follow the RT path.

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