Blogs: Windows

The RT-based Surface tablet has been a bust, with an estimated 4 million unsold units, so Microsoft has a way to possibly unload some: Sell them at steep discounts to schools. But even at more than half-off, will schools buy?

There is a lot going on with Patch Tuesday updates this month, even though with just five updates we have fewer than the usual monthly average of eight. Of the June updates, we see one marked as “Critical,” and four rated as “Important.”   The first (and, ahem, worst) of Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday updates relates to Internet Explorer and covers all versions (6 right up to 10) and all platforms (32, 64-bit and the new RT platforms). Over the past month, I have been keeping an eye on some of the issues tracking IE on the Windows Update (WSUS) and security forums, and we have seen a number of issues and problems.

When it comes to tech and gaming, boys will be boys...and apparently some people at Microsoft appear to think a joke about rape is a good way to drum up interest in the Xbox One. A demo hyping the Xbox One at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) seems to have included a joke about rape, and Microsoft is now backing away from it.

In his keynote address at WWDC, Tim Cook couldn't resist dissing Microsoft, at several points badmouthing the paltry growth of PCs and Windows 8, and contrasting them with Apple's much bigger growth numbers. Size certainly does matter...but are Cook's claims really accurate?

Operation b54 is GO! Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and international police forces have disrupted more than a thousand botnets, created by the Citadel malware toolkit. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have their doubts.

Microsoft's two-pronged plan to boost sales of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets includes cutting costs and including free versions of Office. But it's an oddly conceived strategy. Here's why it's bound to fail.

Microsoft is in the midst of an all-out blitz to save Windows RT, using price cuts and promoting smaller-sized devices. Will that be enough to revive the floundering Windows 8 offshoot, or will Windows RT go the way of Microsoft Bob?

[You're fired -Ed.] Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CIO, Tony Scott, has left the company, after five years in the job. Microsofties "Thank him and wish him well." In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask if he jumped or was pushed.

Some analysts believe that Microsoft could reap billions by releasing Office for the iPad, but there's increasing evidence that such a release is likely a very long way off, if it ever happens.

Windows 8.1 will do a fine job of smoothing out some of Windows 8's roughest edges, and add some new features that should have been in the operating system in the first place. But can it fix the worst problems of the troubled operating system?