While there is no indication that Microsoft plans to release sales numbers in the near future, we have reports from various research firms willing to speculate on how well their sales have been doing lately. The most recent numbers are looking ok for the new platform. Not great, by any means, but the Windows 8 [...]
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In their latest earnings report call to investors, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein made clear that smaller Windows tablets were on the way. Besides that they would be small and competitively priced to work the same field as existing small devices, all we know is that their tablets will not be restricted to the current 10”+ [...]
Earlier this week we saw the launch of the first Windows Phone 8 handhelds. Nokia’s Lumia 920 hit stores and seems to have almost immediately sold out in a large portion of the country. The HTC 8X hasn’t exactly been having much trouble either. In both cases we’ve seen some impressive reviews popping up as [...]
For the past week or two there has been a lot of speculation about the news Apple would be coming out with at their big event today. My job here is to consider how the whole proceedings are likely to affect Windows 8′s situation, but first let’s take a look at what exactly was revealed. [...]
We’re expecting the iPad Mini to finally be announced this week. Apple is planning a big announcement for October 23rd, this Tuesday, and the release of a smaller, cheaper, less powerful iPad is all anybody can talk about in connection with it. That seems like it could spell trouble for Microsoft, given the recent complaints [...]
It’s been a while since we first heard about the Surface. Microsoft made a big production out of the announcement, explained a lot of the broader concepts involved with it, promised power and reliability, and hasn’t really said much since then. At least they hadn’t until now. As of October 16th, the Surface is available [...]
There have been jokes cracked all over the internet since Apple rolled out their homemade mapping software. Major landmarks have gone missing, or at least have gone on strange journeys to places they are not known to frequent, and directions are at best questionable. That doesn’t even factor in the big missing features like public [...]
We all know by this point that the real draw for any platform is the available content. Just like you wouldn’t want to pay a new satellite TV provider full price for a dozen channels and the promise of more to come, you don’t want to invest in a device or operating system that only [...]
The initial rush to get the latest and greatest Apple product is predictable enough at this point to be practically cliché. That doesn’t make it any less impressive, especially when we’re talking about something like the AT&T preorder frenzy following Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 5. Initial reviews of this phone have been largely favorable, [...]
A recent Bloomberg article, citing as sources only “two people familiar with the matter” has announced that at launch the Microsoft Surface tablet will have no access to 3G connectivity. This has apparently raised some alarm among tablet enthusiasts, leading many to question Microsoft’s commitment to their new mobile hardware. The big question that isn’t [...]
