Acer execs dial back the Windows 8 hate as Microsoft preps ‘Blue’
Acer president Jim Wong has been highly critical of Microsoft and the Windows 8 operating system over the past year. The executive previously bashed the …
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Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 preview to be available by the end of June
Windows chief Julie Larson-Green announced at the Wired Business Conference on Tuesday that Microsoft will release a preview of Windows 8.1 — also known as Windows Blue — at …
Asus plans to beat PC malaise with mix of Chromebooks, Android tablets
With the PC industry in decidedly bad shape lately, PC vendors have been looking for alternative ways to generate revenues in a computer market that’s …
PC market continued to tumble in April
A recent report suggested Windows 8 may have hurt the declining global PC market rather than helped it, and new inside data points to a …
2013 is shaping up to be the year of the Chromebook
A handful of companies are said to be preparing new Chromebook models that will launch later this year. According to a report from Digitimes, both …
New devices said to debut at WWDC, but no iPhone 5S in sight
While software is expected to take center stage at Apple’s WWDC keynote this year, a new report claims that we’ll still see some new hardware …
Intel confirms $200 Android notebooks are on the way
Google hasn’t had much luck so far with selling many Chromebooks but the company is hoping to have better luck selling super-cheap notebooks based on its …
MacBook shipments seen growing 10% in Q2 despite declining PC market
Shipments of Apple’s various MacBook laptop computers are expected to grow 10% sequentially in the second quarter this year. Digitimes on Thursday reported that unnamed …
Study: The MacBook Pro with Boot Camp is the world’s most reliable Windows PC
Here’s something that should embarrass Microsoft’s OEM partners: The most reliable Windows PC in the world wasn’t even designed to run on Windows. ZDNet reports …
Microsoft offsets tanking PC sales with Windows 8 upgrades, Surface sales
Despite PC sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter, Microsoft managed to increase overall revenues from its Windows division. The company …
Apple reportedly halts Mac component orders amid tanking PC sales
The ongoing crash of the PC industry hasn’t just affected Windows-based vendors such as Dell and HP — it’s also reportedly taking a toll on …
Microsoft partners say Windows 8 caused ‘millions of customers’ to switch to Apple
With PC sales crashing and burning, it’s not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so …
HP’s latest plan to boost PC sales: Integrating Leap Motion 3D motion control sensors
Things haven’t been going well for PC vendors as of late with sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter. HP is …
Chromebooks are being used even less than Windows RT
If Windows RT is a “lemon” as some have suggested, then what does that make the Chromebook? ZDNet’s Ed Bott took a look at the latest …
PC margins expected to sink further as vendors engage in race to the bottom
You know the PC industry is in trouble when bearish analysts are criticizing themselves for not being pessimistic enough. StreetInsider points us to new research …
Raspberry Pi sales soar past 1 million as U.K production tops 500,000 units
The bulk of Raspberry Pi production moved from China last September to one of Sony’s factories in Wales. The Raspberry Pi Foundation this week announced that …
No bottom seen yet for PC sales plunge
This has been a pretty bad news week for Microsoft and we should probably expect a lot more of them going forward. Barron’s points us …
Why Lenovo has been the only OEM to weather the great PC collapse so far
The Wednesday IDC report on the disastrous state of the PC industry had one very interesting tidbit that many overlooked: Namely, that while companies such …
Latest OS X update confirms gigabit Wi-Fi coming to new Macs
If Apple (AAPL) does release its next-generation MacBooks this spring, it seems they’ll come with super-fast Wi-Fi capabilities. 9to5Mac reports that the latest version of …
IDC: Windows 8 has actually made PCs ‘a less attractive alternative to tablets’
While Microsoft’s (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with …
Big MacBook refresh reportedly set for Q2
While we may have to wait until the late summer or early fall to get new versions of the iPhone and the iPad, it seems …
Apple’s vision of a tablet-laptop hybrid finally comes into focus
Apple’s (AAPL) vision of a hybrid device that combines a touchscreen tablet and a notebook computer has finally been revealed — and it looks a …
Windows Blue rumored to merge Windows Phone and Windows 8 into one product
Microsoft’s (MSFT) next version of the Windows operating system, codenamed Windows Blue, will reportedly help merge its PC and mobile platforms, according to Digitimes. Windows Blue …
Pioneering computer UI architect rips Apple’s closed ecosystem
The computer industry would be much different if it wasn’t for Alan Kay. Not only did the computer pioneer’s work creating graphical user interfaces at …
Windows Blue may be released this summer as Windows 8.1
The next version of the Windows operating system may not be known as Windows 9, as had previously been reported. According to ZDNet, the operating …
Google may launch an Android-based laptop this year
Since Google’s (GOOG) Chromebook initiative has so far failed to turn the PC market on its head, the company may be planning to shake things …
$25 Raspberry Pi Model A now available in the U.S.
The cheaper model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s microcomputer is now available in the United States. The Raspberry Pi Model A is equipped with the …
Windows 8 still used less than Vista despite slowly gaining traction in 2013
The latest numbers from Net Applications show that Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows 8 operating system is slowly gaining traction. The company’s latest operating system is now …
Dell admits being a PC maker is a dead end in new SEC filing
There’s a good reason Dell (DELL) wants to go private and back out of the traditional PC business: Because it thinks selling computers based on …
Microsoft may merge Windows RT into Windows Blue
Microsoft (MSFT) and its manufacturing partners have aggressively pushed the ARM-based Windows RT platform to consumers, however sales have remained flat. According to a report …
