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During a cold December in Paris at a conference called Le Web, I was struck by an insight. It was a combination of what I had been feeling for a while and what a brilliant analyst was saying -- and that is, Microsoft is on the comeback trail. It really is.In recent times, Microsoft has struggled to exude that "cool factor" of companies like Apple, a coolness that is reflected in the companies' respective share prices too. It's a zeitgeist ...
Share prices are the barometer of market sentiment about companies, but when investors complain that the market is being "unfair", one needs to look beneath the numbers. That’s one argument where in Research in Motion(RIM), Apple and Microsoft would agree.When the share price of RIM recently reached a new seven-year-low, dipping below $17 for the first time since 2004, it represented not only a massive 75% fall from its high for 2010, but also a 30% drop from the day ...
Microsoft has announced the South African trial of what it dubs “the next-generation cloud productivity service for businesses,” Microsoft Office 365. Hosted in the software manufacturer's data centres, Office 365 is Microsoft's business productivity platform. This trial will allow South African businesses and users to try Office 365 for free for up to six months, until the service's official South African launch in 2012.Microsoft explains that, with Office 365, people can come together from virtually anywhere and work together more ...
No start menu, no "windows", no fancy graphical flair. This is the world of Windows 8, welcome to it.1. Metro Interface Gloriously refurbished, the Metro interface is the top and best feature of Windows 8. If its interface confuses you, then a quick stab at the new minimalistic design will turn you into a fan in seconds flat. Windows 8 has been designed for touchscreen devices. It works well with laptops and desktop computers but practically flies on a tablet. ...
Social media integration is all the rage. Only a few months ago Microsoft launched Xbox LIVE, an online multiplayer gaming network, in South Africa now it has announced the integration of Facebook and Twitter into the product."A 'My Community' channel will also be added to the LIVE Dash and will launch on both the Standard and Family Dashboards. This is part of our ongoing commitment to providing quality gaming and entertainment in the living room," says Microsoft South Africa.The ...
The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share in October while Yahoo!, Ask and AOL all lost share.Top Search EnginesMicrosoft's Bing outpaced Google in October, adding 0.3 percentage points to 11.5% market share.Google increased its lead by 0.2 percentage points to 66.3%.Second placed Yahoo! slipped by 0.2% percentage points to 16.5%.Ask was in 4th place with 3.6% share, losing 0.1 percentage points.AOL was in fifth place losing 0.2 percentage ...
During a Microsoft event held in Johannesburg yesterday, Mobility Business Group Lead, Nkosi Kumalo and Business Development Manager for Windows Phone, John Press, announced details of the imminent launch of Windows Phone 7 in South Africa.Despite presenting a demo of Windows Phone 7 on a prototype LG GW910 or “Panther”, it was revealed that only two HTC phones with WP7 will be initially available to South Africans. The two phones are the HTC Mozart and HTC Trophy. While the Mozart ...
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