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Microsoft hints at Mac support for Windows Mobile [updated]

by Simon Aughton on 13 October 2010 in News
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Microsoft has indicated that it plans to release a Mac version of the Zune software necessary to sync phones running Windows Phone 7, though the revealing tweet by a UK marketing executive was quickly deleted.

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Microsoft moots “possible acquisition” of Adobe

by Simon Aughton on 8 October 2010 in News
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Microsoft has discussed the possibility of acquiring Adobe as part of a joint strategy to tackle Apple’s lead in the mobile phone market, in a meeting of the two companies’ chief executives.

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Microsoft: no future for Blu-ray

by Simon Aughton on 23 September 2010 in News
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The Blu-ray disc format has no future, according to a senior Microsoft executive, indirectly endorsing Apple’s decision not to add Blu-ray drives to Macs and Apple TV. Stephen McGill, the UK head of Microsoft’s gaming and entertainment division, told the XBox360Achievements website that the company has no plans to add Blu-ray to its Xbox gaming [...]

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Microsoft completes Office 2011

by Simon Aughton on 13 September 2010 in News
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Microsoft has finished work on Office for Mac 2011 and is on schedule to release the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (né Entourage) before the end of October 2010.

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Ballmer: Apple has sold too many iPads

by Simon Aughton on 30 July 2010 in News
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Steve Ballmer isn’t happy with the runaway success Apple’s has had with the iPad. “Apple has done an interesting job of putting together a synthesis and putting a product out, and in which they’ve — they sold certainly more than I’d like them to sell,” he said at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting.

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Could Apple find itself in a state of arrested development?

by Alex Watson on 18 May 2010 in Mac to the future

Apple’s platforms are riding high at the moment, but the signs are that Microsoft and Google are playing nice with developers to catch up. In the last Mac to the Future, I wrote excitedly about games developer Valve coming to the Mac. Writing this column a couple of weeks later, I’m still excited (especially as [...]

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