Microsoft's bet on touch PCs fails to pay off

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	Microsoft's bet on touch PCs fails to pay off Microsoft's bet that touch would propel Windows 8 has run into a major snag, an industry analyst said: Consumers see little reason to pay premium prices for touch-enabled laptops. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue A convergence of trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. These potentially conflicting trends are putting a strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures. Learn more>> In this Issue Microsoft may expand hardware lineup, as Ballmer pushes 'family of devices' Preston Gralla: Asus kills its RT tablet but Microsoft moves full speed ahead on next-generation Surface RT Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft Bing-bang-bungles local search High PC prices hindering industry recovery, analysts say Build a Windows 8 app, get a prize from Microsoft Microsoft to clean up after Oracle's patch mess again next week Preston Gralla: Will the lack of good Windows 8 apps kill Windows tablets? Microsoft slams Gmail's 'Gspam' in latest Scroogled attack ad Asus kills its line of Windows RT tablets WHITE PAPER: HP Change Your Mobile Application Challenges into Opportunities In the PC era, we had to support one or two PC operating system versions, one or two browsers, in a relatively stable environment. However, in the mobile market, there are multiple operating systems, which change frequently along with new devices each month and there are various types of network connections. Learn More Microsoft may expand hardware lineup, as Ballmer pushes 'family of devices' If words mean anything, Microsoft will soon dramatically expand the number -- and type -- of hardware devices it makes in-house, and one day those devices will all one day run the same Windows iteration. Read More Preston Gralla: Asus kills its RT tablet but Microsoft moves full speed ahead on next-generation Surface RT Asus has pulled the plug on its RT tablet, but that doesn't appear to worry Microsoft because it appears to be moving full speed ahead on the next generation of RT tablets. Is Microsoft suffering from hubris, or does it know something the rest of the world doesn't? Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft Bing-bang-bungles local search Search in Windows 8.1, now in preview, will use Bing to deliver targeted ads, even when you're just searching local drives. Read More High PC prices hindering industry recovery, analysts say Samsung has launched an ATIV Book 9 Plus laptop with Intel's latest Haswell chip that will be available for $1,400, but analysts said such sustained high prices for laptops and ultrabooks could hinder the recovery of the PC market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology NPM Delivers Improved Network Visibility to IT Operations NPM tools provide performance and availability monitoring solutions for the applications traversing the data communication network (including network devices themselves and the network traffic they are passing). Read Report Now Build a Windows 8 app, get a prize from Microsoft Microsoft yesterday took another stab at boosting interest in creating apps for Windows 8 with an awards program that will hand out Xbox games and other prizes to amateur programmers. Read More Microsoft to clean up after Oracle's patch mess again next week Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week to patch dangerous vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and the business-critical Exchange Server, as well as less-serious bugs in all versions of Windows. Read More Preston Gralla: Will the lack of good Windows 8 apps kill Windows tablets? New research showing that Windows 8 has barely half of the most popular iOS apps is one more reason that Windows 8 tablets simply haven't caught on. Apps sell tablets, and unless Microsoft closes the app gap,  Windows tablets may never make it. Read More Microsoft slams Gmail's 'Gspam' in latest Scroogled attack ad Microsoft today took an attack ad swing at Google with a new episode in its nine-month "Scroogled" campaign, blasting Gmail's practice of dropping ads resembling emails into customers' inboxes. Read More Asus kills its line of Windows RT tablets Asustek CEO Jerry Shen confirmed today that his company will no longer produce Windows RT tablets. Read More
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