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

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.
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Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking

in Personal Technology on October 20, 2010 at 4:03 pm PT

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system has a novel and attractive interface, but it lacks key features now common in its rivals’ phones, writes Walt.

Windows Phone 7: It’s Now or Never

in Mobile on October 11, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

With the launch of Windows Phone 7 today, Microsoft is taking another shot at a market even its CEO, Steve Ballmer, concedes it stumbled in. “We were ahead of this game and now we find ourselves No. 5 in the market,” he said at our D8 conference this past summer. “We missed a whole cycle.” Badly, too.

The TouchSmart Has Improved–But Not Enough

in Personal Technology on June 26, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a new TouchSmart, a desktop computer with touch-controlled software. The hardware and software are better. It’s attractive, more versatile and fun to use. But the latest effort still has some problems.