Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage today in San Francisco to extol how the company’s new slate of products — Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server2010 — can help businesses save money and increase productivity as corporate IT budgets remain tight. The phrase Ballmer repeated throughout the talk was “with [...]

Microsoft started airing commercials by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system last night. In this spot, a young girl makes a slideshow with goofy photos and quotes from blogs praising Windows 7. It’s cute, and carries two messages: People like the changes we’ve made since Vista, and even this young [...]

In just five weeks, you’ll have a bunch of new Windows phones to choose from. But before we show you some of the cool, new phones that will be coming out, I want to explain how we’re trying to make phones even better with Windows… Tweet This Post

Apple (AAPL) could sell about 5 million copies of Snow Leopard in the third quarter, estimates analyst firm Piper Jaffray. The analyst firm estimates the Mac OS X installed base at over 40 million, and says the 5 million unit sales will add $66 million to Apple’s operating income in the quarter… Tweet This Post

The Apple store was down for quite a while just now, and lo and behold when it was reinstated Mac OS X Snow Leopard became available to mankind – that is to say you can now pre-order a copy. The major update to OS X, aka 10.6, will start shipping next Friday August 28, as [...]