Microsoft in 2012: All Eyes on Windows 8

	Preston Gralla: Why Windows 8 may not be for your PC | Microsoft bails from CES tech trade show after '12
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	Microsoft in 2012: All Eyes on Windows 8 While 2011 was not a breakthrough year for Microsoft products, the company held steady amid criticism regarding its absence from the tablet market, its late arrival to the cloud, and low sales for Windows Phones. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: Why Windows 8 may not be for your PC Microsoft bails from CES tech trade show after '12 IT Blogwatch: RIM 'not for sale' to Amazon, Microsoft, or Nokia IT Blogwatch: Microsoft and CES: Mutual backstabbing? Samsung Focus S: Slick Windows Phone -- for consumers only ITC favors Microsoft in Motorola tiff Preston Gralla: Microsoft and Nokia said to post 'astroturfed' comments on negative review of Lumia 800 Is anyone really using Windows 8's preview? Preston Gralla: Microsoft to overshadow MacBook Air and dominate ultrabook market, says report RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 4: ACCELERATE BUSINESS RESULTS WITH YOUR CLOUD. WEBINAR - JANUARY 19, 2012. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to optimize cloud economics, reshape behavior for IT-as-a-Service, and streamline cross-functional collaboration. REGISTER NOW Preston Gralla: Why Windows 8 may not be for your PC Recent data shows that the Windows 8 developer preview is rarely being used --- less than a quarter of the uptake of the Windows 7 beta in a longer period of time. That's just one more piece of evidence that in its present form Windows 8 isn't really for your PC. It's designed mainly for tablets.   Read More Microsoft bails from CES tech trade show after '12 Microsoft today announced that next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will its last as an exhibitor. Read More IT Blogwatch: RIM 'not for sale' to Amazon, Microsoft, or Nokia RIM rumored to rebuff acquisition approaches. Research In Motion (TSE:RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM) is said to have told Amazon, Microsoft, and Nokia to take a hike. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if this is the next death-march to watch. Not to mention: Microspeak: Offline (noun)...   Read More IT Blogwatch: Microsoft and CES: Mutual backstabbing? Microsoft (NADSAQ:MSFT) says it's pulled out of CES 2013. But sources say CES dropped the Microsoft keynote for 2013. Where's the truth? Are Microsoft and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) still BFFs? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers unpick the actuality. Not to mention: Santa Claus vs. Pregnant Woman...   Read More WEBCAST: IBM Optimizing Inventory Investments Gary Cross (Global Supply Chain Optimization Leader, IBM Center for Business Optimization) discusses the integration of the IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization solution with the IBM Maximo solution. Listen Now Samsung Focus S: Slick Windows Phone -- for consumers only The sleek smartphone's Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' OS has real appeal, but it can't work in most businesses Read More ITC favors Microsoft in Motorola tiff In another blow to Android, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial determination that Motorola Mobility infringes four claims of a Microsoft patent. The judge also found that Motorola does not infringe claims related to six other Microsoft patents. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft and Nokia said to post 'astroturfed' comments on negative review of Lumia 800 Microsoft and Nokia employees may have posted negative comments about an online review slamming the Windows Phone 7.5-based Nokia Lumia 800, while hiding their true identities. Given that the review was a truly terrible piece of journalism and analysis, why would the companies even bother?   Read More Is anyone really using Windows 8's preview? Although millions have downloaded Microsoft's Windows 8 developer preview, relatively few are actually using it, Web measurements show. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft to overshadow MacBook Air and dominate ultrabook market, says report The MacBook Air today is king of the hill when it comes to lightweight "ultrabook" laptops. But that dominance is about to end, with Windows-based ultrabooks taking the lion's share of the market in 2012, and two-thirds of it by 2013.   Read More
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