The Era of Their Ways: Apple’s Post-PC World Is Microsoft’s PC-Plus Future

Apple says it’s like the transition from trucks to cars. Microsoft figures you’ll own a fleet of vehicles. Or something like that.
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More Microsoft Stores Means More Surface Showrooms

Microsoft is more than halfway to its goal of opening 75 more brick-and-mortar storefronts.
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Steve Ballmer Gets a “B” Grade From Microsoft’s Board

Still, the CEO’s performance was good enough to warrant a bonus equivalent to 100 percent of his base salary. But it could have been higher. If only Windows Phone sales were better.
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Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2011: It’s a Windows World After All!

AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried and I are being held hostage by nefarious Microsoft PR chieftain Frank Shaw in a soul-sapping ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. — within spitting distance of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride — for the software giant’s annual meeting with Wall Street peeps.
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Mr. Ballmer’s Wild Ride! Microsoft Execs Will Address Wall Street Suits Today.

Hey, kids, it’s time for the Microsoft Mouse Club at the annual Financial Analysts Meeting in Anaheim today.
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Microsoft Opens Colorado Retail Store in Wyoming

Lone Tree, Colorado, is not a city in Wyoming, guys.
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Microsoft Names Vet Chris Capossela as New Marketing Chief

The appointment of the 20-year Microsoft veteran, who previously ran the Office division, comes six days after the announcement that longtime marketing chief Mich Mathews was leaving.

Still Strong: Microsoft Beat Estimates as Quarterly Sales Neared $20 Billion

Microsoft on Thursday reported earnings and revenue that topped expectations and rose significantly from a year ago amid strong sales from its Xbox and Office units. However, Microsoft’s outlook was limited, offering specific guidance only for operating expenses.

Slip ‘N Slide Time: All the Presentations From Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting

Microsoft had its annual Financial Analyst Meeting at its Redmond, Wash. campus yesterday, where BoomTown liveblogged the morning and afternoon sessions with the software giant’s top execs. And, because it is Microsoft, there were lots and lots of slides to look at, which are all after the jump.

Liveblogging Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (Afternoon Session): Hey, Steve Ballmer is All In!

BoomTown is in Redmond, Wash. today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeeting, where top execs from the software giant have been taking the stage to talk about All Things Microsoft. I liveblogged this morning’s sessions here, and now the afternoon confab, which opened with CEO Steve Ballmer, who seemed was confidently strutting around after delivering record results last week for the fourth quarter. But can we turn around its lackluster stock?

Microsoft Muscles Past Expectations

Microsoft Tweaks Laptop Hunter Ads

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Microsoft Disappoints…Big Time

Pink-Slip Thursday at Cisco