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86 Microsoft Stores in 2 - 3 Years

Provided that Microsoft manages to deliver on its promise of opening a range of new retail outlets, the company will have no less than 86 Microsoft Stores in the next two to three years. The announcement was made at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, by Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer. Essentially, the nu...

14 July 2011
09:35 GMT

Forget Windows 8/Windows 9, Microsoft’s Future Is in the Cloud

Windows and Office continue to be Microsoft’s main cash cows, with a range of additional offerings also qualifying for positions of top earners. There are a range of company divisions pulling in over $1 billion in revenue each year, including Xbox, SQL Server, System Center, Unified Communications, SharePoint, ...

15 July 2010
11:44 GMT

Microsoft: iPhone 4 Is Apple’s Vista

Microsoft has gone for Apple’s jugular, and mocked the Cupertino-based company for the problems plaguing iPhone 4. One of the software giant’s top executives compared iPhone with Windows Vista, an operating system itself riddled with a variety of issues impacting software and hardware compatibility and of...

15 July 2010
04:03 GMT

Microsoft: $9.5 Billion for R&D in 2010

Microsoft has traditionally reserved an extremely consistent and constantly increasing budget for research and development year after year, and 2010 will make no exception to this rule. According to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who keynoted the CeBIT Global Conference in Hannover, Germany, on March...

8 March 2010
07:11 GMT

Microsoft Revenue Drops, First Time in Its Existence

For the first time in its history, Microsoft has experienced a year-over-year drop in revenue. The Redmond company's revenue took a tumble in the third quarter of 2009 and amounted only to $13.65 billion. The $13.65 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, represents a decline of 6% compared to t...

24 April 2009
03:51 GMT

Microsoft Donates $4.5 Million to Vision Australia

The $4.5 million offered to Vision Australia is the largest donation Microsoft has ever made in the country. Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, revealed that the 7 million Australian dollars was essentially a software grant designed to allow Vision Australia to upgrade its IT infrastructure. With an...

23 April 2009
06:52 GMT

Microsoft Software - 1 Billion Users per Day, 500 Million Pirates

Out of 1 million people who use Microsoft software on a daily basis only half have paid for the licenses and the associated rights to do so, according to the Redmond company. In his keynote at the Public Safety Symposium in Redmond, Washington on April 15, 2009, Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer...

17 April 2009
10:54 GMT

Microsoft Pours $100 Million into Linux

Microsoft announced that it was kicking up a notch its initial investment into Linux dating back to 2006, by pouring no less than $100 million into the open source operating system via Novell. According to the Redmond company, the $100 million will be spent on acquiring support certificates for Novell SUSE Linux Ente...

20 August 2008
08:03 GMT

Windows Vista Is Superior to Leopard, XP, Linux, and All of Open Source

There's Windows Vista, and there's the rest. Microsoft's perspective was eloquently made public at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas, on July 10, 2008. The Redmond company claims nothing less than that Windows Vista is superior to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard,...

11 July 2008
09:16 GMT

It's All About Satisfaction with Microsoft, But Still No Nookie!

It's all about satisfaction with Microsoft. Customer satisfaction that is, an aspect in which the company's new Chief Information Officer will play a key role. Microsoft has traded one Scott for another and has announced that it has hired Tony Scott, from The Walt Disney, to serve as chief information offic...

18 January 2008
03:35 GMT


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