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Steve Ballmer: The boss who bet his company on Windows 8 – and lost as computer giant announces 'biggest product U-turn since New Coke'
Tuesday 07 May 2013
Updated version of operating system will take into account complaints made by users as decision to overhaul the much-maligned operating system has put Bill Gates’s successor under pressure
Nikhil Kumar: Ailing Microsoft really should have taken the tablet a long time ago
Wednesday 05 December 2012
US Outlook: It seems hours spent keying in computer code have failed to give this giant the shot in the arm it needs
David Cameron praises initiative by Microsoft to help unemployed young people
Wednesday 07 November 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron today welcomed an initiative by computing giants Microsoft to help 300,000 jobless young people in the UK take steps towards work over the next three years.
Microsoft results beat expectations
Friday 20 April 2012
Microsoft's fared better than analysts anticipated in its latest quarter, boosted by a surprising rise in sales of its Windows operating system for personal computers.
Skype thins upper ranks for Microsoft takeover
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Skype, the internet telephony company, has sacked more than half a dozen of its most senior executives, in a boardroom clear-out ahead of its takeover by Microsoft.
Should Microsoft fire its $8bn man?
Saturday 28 May 2011
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has presided over a decade of stagnation, claims a leading shareholder. Stephen Foley reports
Has Microsoft hit the right number for Skype?
Wednesday 11 May 2011
The computing giant's $8.5bn purchase of the internet telephony pioneer has perplexed many analysts
Toyota teams up with Microsoft
Friday 08 April 2011
Microsoft and Toyota have agreed to join forces to develop internet-based services for the car manufacturer's customers around the world.
Gates is a ruthless schemer, says his Microsoft co-founder
Thursday 31 March 2011
Bill Gates is a ruthless schemer who demeaned his employees and conspired to rip off his business partner, according to a memoir written by the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.
Twitter chief quiet on being a 'takeover target'
Tuesday 15 February 2011
The chief executive of the fast-growing social networking site Twitter yesterday batted away questions over whether the company was a takeover target and failed to outline how it could make enough money to justify its rumoured $10bn (£6bn) valuation.
David Prosser: Obama plays for time as the deficit hawks begin to circle
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Outlook: In the absence of an agreement on how much to cut, a deal on legal backing for a multi-year deficit plan would reassure critics of US fiscal credibility
Smartphones and tablets to steal the show in Barcelona
Monday 14 February 2011
For the next four days, Barcelona will be dominated not by Antoni Gaudi, Catalan politics or even Lionel Messi – but by mobile phones.
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Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
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'Jail reckless bankers': Report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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