Microsoft has formed a new "deep tech" team of executives whose duties will include recruiting non-Microsoft developers to build apps using its products. The idea is to get Microsoft closer to next-generation developers who are making tons of money b

By Gregory Vousvounis:Good news for Microsoft (MSFT) continues to come, strengthening the bull case for the stock. According to the latest IDC report for Q1 2013 Windows Phone surpassed BlackBerry (BBRY) in sales and climbed to third place in the sma

It's back to target practice at the podiatrist shooting range.

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) re-design of iOS under the management of famed Apple hardware designer Jony Ive has gone from rumor to generally accepted as fact. Among the most notable changes is the reported flat graphical design.

Six months after the release of Windows 8, Microsoft's top Windows executives Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller have been forced to explain some of the design decisions that went into it. For instance, why did Microsoft kill the Start button from th

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's forthcoming update to its personal computer operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers, the marketing chief for the Windows unit said on

SEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's forthcoming update to its personal computer operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers, the marketing chief for the Windows unit

Windows boss Tami Reller stands by claims of 100 million licenses sold, says Windows 8.1 upgrade soon to be released.

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says a planned update to its Windows 8 operating system will be made available for free later this year. The...

One of the big gripes about Windows 8 is the lack of apps. Last week, there were 60,000 apps in the store, Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Windows said in an interview. Today, she says there's 70,000 apps. That's a big jump. Rell

Microsoft isn't ditching its ARM strategy and Windows RT operating system anytime soon, says Tami Reller, the chief of marketing for Windows, speaking at the JP Morgan Technology conference. There's been a lot of speculation that Microsoft might be r

SEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp executive Tami Reller said on Tuesday the company's forthcoming update to its Windows operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp.executive Tami Reller on Tuesday sought to counter recent claims that the software giant's release of Windows 8 has been a failure. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Rell

"What has been code-named Windows Blue will now be officially called Windows 8.1," Tami Reller, the chief of marketing for Windows, speaking at the JP Morgan Technology conference. It will be free for everyone with a Windows 8 or Windows RT device. L

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker, dominating Androidand with a tiny market share in Windows 8. The Galaxy S4 is itsflagship Android smartphone, going up against the iPhone, Nokia's highest-end Windows Phone 8, a

In June, Microsoft will release its next big update to Windows 8 called Windows Blue. With this update, Microsoft will hopefully fix a lot of things that have annoyed people about Microsoft's new touch-friendly operating system. A lot is riding on th

This was rough.

In the middle of a longer story about how people should stop critizing Microsoft for making changes to Windows 8, Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet reveals more looming changes to Windows 8: In addition to the optional Start Button and boot-to-desktop options,

When Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows 8 last October, he called it a "bet-the-company moment."

By Jacob Steinberg:When the Windows Phone 8 (MSFT) project was first announced, there were several takers for the project in the mobile phone industry. LG Electronics, Samsung (SSNLF.PK), Nokia (NOK), HTC, Huawei and Sony (SNE) were among the compani

Microsoft's new operating system is being compared to Coca-Cola's notorious introduction, but it could be worse than that.

Frank Shaw, Microsoft's head of corporate communications, thinks some of the Windows 8 critics out there need to take a chill pill.  In a Friday blog post, Shaw linked to stories that ran this week in The Economist and Financial Times 

Microsoft's head of Windows marketing, Tami Reller, said this week that Microsoft had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8. But that doesn't mean there are 100 million Windows 8 PCs in operation. That number is largely made up of new Windows 8

Microsoft is getting ready to launch a new version of its Windows 8 operating system, codenamed Windows Blue, this summer that will reportedly fix many gripes people have with the current version. Microsoft's hardware partners are getting ready for t

Microsoft made the following commercials for its Asian markets. They were put on its general YouTube page before being pulled. They are so completely insane that it's we won't do them justice by describing them, but we'll try. The first one illustrat

Commentary: Don't expect an about-face from touch design.

Microsoft acknowledged that it has been “listening” to customers since it launched Windows 8 and is planning to update the operating system. The “Start” button is one thing that needs to come back, writes Therese Poletti.

One of the complaints against Windows 8 is the lack of apps. Windows 8 can't run older Windows apps in  "Metro" mode and the Windows RT version can't run Windows 7 apps at all. Seven months after launch, the Windows 8 app store now has 60,000 ap

Microsoft's Windows 8 is just the latest update to annoy users.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is just the latest update to annoy users

Acer Chairman J.T. Wang, until recently one of Microsoft's most outspoken critics, said the "crisis" from the launch of Windows 8 is easing.

The chairman of Taiwan's Acer Inc., until recently one of Microsoft Corp.'s harshest critics, said on Tuesday that the "crisis" surrounding Windows 8 is abating as he tried to convince investors the personal-computer maker is recovering from two year

Acer Inc. (2353.TW) is hoping to ship more mobile computing devices--including laptops and tablets--in the second quarter, saying sales could be boosted by the rollout of more Windows 8-devices and low-cost tablets.

Microsoft said Windows 8 was selling at a similar pace to Windows 7, but it added that many users were frustrated by changes to the software.    

Walt Mossberg reviews Start8 and Pokki, two products that restore the Start Menu to WIndows 8.

A Microsoft executive is acknowledging what many tech watchers already knew: The company's flagship Windows 8 software hasn't met expectations, and Microsoft is turning itself inside out to respond.

We keep hearing about Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Windows Blue, which is expected to fix all the things people really hate about Windows 8. We just learned from Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green, who leads Windows 8 development, that

Microsoft is thinking more about enabling Windows 8 to run on smaller and cheaper tablet computers, and we'll get a look at the first of such devices at the end of June. The news comes from comments made Julie Larson-Green, the corporate vice preside

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release its long-awaited Windows 8 update, tentatively referred to as Windows Blue, sometime before the end of the year.

By Onuora Amobi:So in this month's episode of Microsoft (MSFT) releasing numbers whenever it wants, CFO of Microsoft's Windows Division Tami Reller announced that the company had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 to date. On first blush that act

The chief has injected a new creative spirit into the company, yet a single decision – on Windows 8 – could threaten much of what he has achieved

Windows 8 doesn't yet have an iTunes app, and Microsoft doesn't expect Apple to release one.

With  Windows 8, Microsoft ignored the basic tenets of change management and paid the price. Now Microsoft is finally trying to correct the mistakes it made with Windows 8.

During the first 30 days at retail, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses.

Phone manufacturer has experienced some success with mobile version of software and is starting to make inroads into Samsung and Apple ecosystems

Listening to customer feedback, the tech giant expects to roll out changes to its latest operating system later this year.

Microsoft says its Windows 8 'Blue' update will fix some of the biggest customer gripes about the operating system.

Microsoft faces claims that its operating system is a "failure"

When something doesn’t go quite right the first time, what’s a ginormous technology company supposed to do? Why, just slap a couple of coats of paint on the ill-received Windows 8, fluff it up a bit and send it right back out on stage. Mi