Seven significant outages last year offer insights into how everything from small network changes to power supplies can cause global disruptions, according to ThousandEyes’ annual roundup.
Windows 7 has once again kept Microsoft's balance sheet healthy. On Thursday, the company announced strong income and revenue growth for its third fiscal quarter, thanks in part to continued brisk sales of the new OS.
Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond for a new job with Microsoft. His goal: improve Microsoft’s credibility within open source circles.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini received a 7% pay bump in 2010, which marks the first year the company's revenue topped $40 billion. His total compensation climbed to $15.7 million from $14.6 million in 2009, according to SEC documents.
Windows 7 fans are joining smartphone users in bringing personal tastes into the workplace and demanding enterprises respond. IT should embrace this, advises Forrester.
Microsoft Thursday said more than 240 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold during the first year of the operating system’s availability, a record the company says makes it the fastest selling OS in history.
Microsoft thinks 2010 will bring a big PC refresh cycle from corporations and give Windows 7 a boost as those newly purchased machines likely will run the new operating system.
As operating system launches go, Windows 7 has been a pretty sweet one for Microsoft. The reviews are mostly thumbs-up, and aside from some unintentionally hilarious videos promoting Windows 7 launch parties, the company has mostly done things right.
Microsoft needed to take risks and make a mobile splash in order to remake its image as a technology leader, but instead displayed ineptness in the unveiling of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) today.
Microsoft's efforts to become relevant in a smartphone market dominated by rivals such as Apple and Google appear to paying off: Windows Phone 7 sales have topped 1.5 million since they began early last month.
Since CES, Microsoft's Windows 7 tablet strategy has largely been to spin its wheels - while iPad sales surge and Android-based tablets gain momentum. Has Microsoft fallen behind its rivals?
Nokia will adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone OS, and partner with Microsoft in areas including mobile mapping, advertising and app development, the companies announced Friday.
Developers who had previously built a business around coding apps for Symbian smartphones were put on notice Friday that they should pick another platform, as Nokia announced its switch to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. Other platforms will be maneuvering to win them over while Nokia tries to encourage them to retrain and work with its new partner.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is warning customers of its unified communications products that support for Windows 7 won’t be forthcoming until the product’s 8.0 release scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. About a dozen more UC products will not support Windows 7 until version 8.5, in the third quarter of 2010 and at that time, only the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will be supported. http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/7678
Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti and Porsche.
Taiwanese PC maker Micro-Star International (MSI) said on Thursday it would target business users with the release of three new 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet PCs on June 1, two with Windows 7 and one with Google's Android Honeycomb OS.