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Microsoft, PC Industry Will Need Windows Upgrade Offer More Than Ever

Ina Fried and Lauren Goode in Product News on May 23 at 6:20 am PT

With Windows 8 arriving as late as November, Microsoft is turning to its old standby — a guaranteed upgrade program.

Near-Final Version of Windows 8 Due in Early June

Ina Fried in News on April 23 at 8:43 pm PT

Microsoft will turn loose a “release preview” version of the operating system in the first week of June, Windows unit head Steven Sinofsky confirmed at a developer event.

Mountain Lion and Windows 8’s Common Aim: Make Desktop More Like Mobile

Ina Fried in News on February 16 at 7:16 am PT

Redmond and Cupertino are taking different approaches, but both aim to make their desktops and laptops more like the smartphone.

At CES, Control Your Computer Screen With Your “Gaze”

Lauren Goode in News on January 5 at 5:15 am PT

Mouse? Trackpad? Touchscreen? Who needs them? Just use your eyeballs!

Andy Lees: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)

Beth Callaghan in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 1:31 am PT

Andy Lees, president of the Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, is enthusiastic about the future for Windows Phone 7.

Even Microsoft’s Analyst Meeting Looks Like the New Windows (Enjoy the Slideware)

Ina Fried in News on September 14, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT

The Metro look is spreading throughout the company faster than the Melissa virus on a room full of unpatched PCs.

Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2011: It’s a Windows World After All!

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

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.

In 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 5, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT

Verizon Wireless’s new 4G network is “wicked fast” but potentially costly, writes Walt.

Viral Video: Silicon Valley May Now Officially Blame Larry Kramer for BoomTown

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Larry Kramer, the online journalism pioneer and persistent gadfly, finally took credit where credit is certainly due, in a story he tells of giving me my big break way back in the dark ages. In a video interview with Beet.TV recently, Kramer claims I “scared” him into giving me a stringer job at the Washington Post in the early 1980s. That does sound like me.

Fitbit Sees How You Run, Walk and Sleep

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 3, 2009 at 4:28 pm PT

A tiny $99 tracking device knows when you are walking, running and even sleeping.