All Entries Tagged With: "microsoft"
AMAZING: Bill Gates Quote from 1977
In 1977 at 1:12 seconds into a television report Bill Gates says this “There’s a lot of people who are forecasting that there will be software stores just like there are record stores today. And that there’ll be thousands and thousands of those, and I think I have to agree with that.” Boy was he [...]
Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 BILLION
Defending the $8.5 billion Microsoft paid for Skype, investor Ben Horowitz suggests Google and Apple have had no impact on Skype’s success. It’s the service that Skype provides itself, rather than serious competition. That’s what lead Horowitz’s firm and a group of others to fund Skype with $2 billion just two years ago, despite heavy [...]
Microsoft Lays Unsuccessful Zune to Rest
We hear that Microsoft will cease development of its family of Zune-branded music players due to weak demand and a desire to focus on its smartphone platform. Zune will live on as a software-and-services platform, according to Bloomberg’s source. Windows Phone 7 embeds the Zune player for media playback on the phone, uses the Zune [...]
Microsoft introduces new Xbox 360
Microsoft Corp. today announced an all-in-one opportunity to jump into the controller-free fun of Kinect this holiday: the all-new Xbox 360 4GB console, the revolutionary Kinect sensor and “Kinect Adventures” packaged together for$299.99 (U.S. ERP). With “Kinect Adventures,” players will make their way through 20 adventures, navigating roaring rapids and ducking and dodging through mountaintop obstacle [...]
CMA Music Festival 2010
Even as CD sales and legal music downloads dropped last year, radio use climbed to 93% among country fans (from 79% the year before). Most listeners tune in for an impressive 9.9 hours a week, and crossover artists such as Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, and Darius Rucker are luring a growing number of African-American and [...]
Apple Passes Microsoft as World’s Largest Tech Company
Apple’s market capitalization officially passed Microsoft’s this afternoon, making the Cupertino company, for the first time, the largest technology company in the world. With a market cap of $241.5 billion versus Microsoft’s $239.5 billion, Apple also became the second-largest company on the S&P 500, according to Standard & Poor’s analyst Howard Silverblatt. At the moment, only [...]
