Stories by Gregg Keizer

Microsoft urges Windows 7 users to uninstall 'Blue Screen of Death' patch

Microsoft today urged Windows 7 users to uninstall a patch shipped earlier this week that has crashed customer's PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots.

By Gregg Keizer | 12 April, 2013 20:06

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, software, Malware and Vulnerabilities, operating systems, kaspersky lab

Windows XP's looming retirement won't shake PC business out of sales funk

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.

By Gregg Keizer | 12 April, 2013 18:07

Tags: IT industry, IDC, Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, operating systems, PCs, Gartner

Microsoft's stock slides after dismal PC shipment reports

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.

By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 20:26

Tags: Windows, hardware systems, Desktop Apps, desktop pcs, goldman sachs, operating systems, Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Dell, IDC, Microsoft, software, Lenovo, intel, PCs

Surface 'Mini': ARM, Atom or both?

Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.

By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 19:11

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, tablets, software, wall street journal, operating systems, Apple, Gartner, IDC, Google

Windows 8 takes blame for 'brutal' PC sales slide

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.

By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 11:04

Tags: IT industry, IDC, Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, operating systems, PCs, Gartner

Office for iPad in 2014? Big mistake

A purported Microsoft roadmap for future releases of its Office suite showed a fall 2014 launch date for Office on Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems, according to an online report.

By Gregg Keizer | 10 April, 2013 20:33

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, applications, Networking, wireless, software, mobile, Forrester Research, QuickOffice, Apple, consumer electronics, Google, Microsoft, smartphones

Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.

By Gregg Keizer | 10 April, 2013 18:23

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, wireless, software, mobile, operating systems, PCs, Gartner, Microsoft

Microsoft takes new 'Scroogled' shot at Google

Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 April, 2013 20:29

Tags: Apple, IT industry, Google, Microsoft, security, privacy, mobile apps

Microsoft not fooling anyone by using FairSearch front in antitrust complaint against Google

Microsoft isn't fooling anyone by hiding behind a trade group to complain to European antitrust regulators about Google and its Android mobile operating system, a legal expert said today.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 April, 2013 17:38

Tags: Google, Microsoft, Nokia, legal, Internet Search, internet, search engines, Oracle, ComScore

XP migration easy pickings over, say experts

The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 April, 2013 10:59

Tags: Microsoft, security, Windows, software, operating systems, VMware

Microsoft releases Office 2010 SP2 public beta

Microsoft has released a public beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 2, the first major update to the suite in almost two years.

By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 21:50

Tags: Microsoft, Desktop Apps, Windows, software, operating systems

U.S. patent office retracts rejection of Apple's iPad Mini trademark

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week reversed itself, withdrawing a rejection of Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini," according to a document published by the agency.

By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 18:38

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, ios, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, legal, tablets, software, mobile, operating systems, Apple

Microsoft tempts XP laggards with $84 upgrade discount

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.

By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 17:15

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, Cave, operating systems, PCs

As browsing goes mobile, Apple wins, Mozilla loses

The trend toward browsing from phones and tablets has helped some browser makers, dramatically in one case, but hurt others in the battle for usage share, data from a metrics firm showed.

By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 10:50

Tags: web apps, net applications, Firefox, e-commerce, Microsoft, e-business, internet, mozilla

Mozilla pulls tracking trigger for Firefox 22, ignores ad industry attacks

Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry.

By Gregg Keizer | 07 April, 2013 16:44

Tags: web apps, Firefox, e-commerce, e-business, internet, mozilla

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