Zune’s death greatly exaggerated
It’s not over till the fat lady sings eh? Well she hasn’t even made it out on stage..
New reports from Microsoft say the zune-hardware isn’t going anywhere despite some recent negative speculation. A Zune spokesman told Wired blogger Eliot Van Buskirk that “we’re not getting out of the hardware business at all,” and that Microsoft [...]
Ballmer Changes Tune On iPhone, Says No Zune Phone
Zach Spear writes the following article for AppleInsider
Shortly after the iPhone was announced at Macworld 2007, Ballmer lambasted the Apple handset as the “most expensive phone in the world” while noting that Microsoft sells “millions and millions and millions of phones a year” while “Apple sells zero.”
“I’d prefer to have our software in 60 percent [...]
What To Watch For From Microsoft At CES
Windows Mobile: At a dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., in early September, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer boasted of Windows Mobile’s standing in the smart phone market: Over the past year, he said, smart phones with Windows Mobile installed had outsold both Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone.
When Ballmer takes the stage at the [...]
Ballmer Hints Of Zune Phone In Microsoft Employees Memo
A Gizmodo article by Matt Buchanan sparks interest in the Zune Phone!
In a giant memo to Microsoft employees laying out strategy and changes for the next fiscal year, Steve Ballmer spends a paragraph comparing their way of doing things (choice) versus Apple (end-to-end). Unexceptional, except he says that
“We’re changing the way we work with [...]
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