Tag: Gadgets
Why Google TV failed
Google Now may have just won Popular Science’s “Innovation of the Year” award, but it is receiving no accolades for Google TV. With Logitech leaving the party licking its wounds with more Revue boxes being returned from retailers than are being sold and Google refusing to unveil sales figures in the face of Apple’s 500,000… Read More ›
Windows 8 – Does it matter anymore?
Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, announced availability of Windows 8 yesterday “shattering perceptions of what a PC is” and “kicking off a new era” for the company. Having completely missed the smartphone and tablet movements (along with Intel), it certainly needed a good kick as it attempts to make its comeback with an operating system that… Read More ›
Woops, surface just a “reference design” after all
Clearly perplexed by its OEM’s reaction to Surface, Microsoft has been doing some serious backpedalling of late. Turns out Surface really was just about teasing them into doing a better job of creating “stunning devices” after all.
Acer Founder Predicts Short Life for Surface
Acer founder Stan Shih claimed today that Surface is nothing more than a short term shot-in-the-arm for Windows 8 and that Microsoft will lose interest after a year, once the ‘bother’ of distribution and after sales support kick-in. ‘View it as free advertising and don’t worry’, is his message to fellow OEMs. If that is… Read More ›
Underground Project Surfaces from Metro
Clearly the powers that be at Microsoft got tired of Apple’s runaway revenues, profits and stock price. They got tired of their domination of the tablet and mobile segment. They got worried about Apple’s creeping enterprise market share and got even more worried about how cool enterprises viewed them at Microsoft’s expense. Something had to… Read More ›
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