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greggkeizer
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer.
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Past practice hints that Oct. 23 is the upgrade's likely launch date.
2 days 19 hours ago
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A trio of the top 20 investors in Microsoft, anxious about the selection of the company's next CEO, have asked the board to push Bill Gates out of his chairman's spot, according to a report by Reuters.
4 days 15 hours ago
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Microsoft's refreshed Surface 2 tablets, which the company unveiled last week and will start selling Oct. 22, illustrate that Microsoft has not changed its ongoing strategy in mobile, analysts said.
4 days 21 hours ago
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Awards $60M to 8 execs on the same day that board okays retention payments.
6 days 19 hours ago
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Analytics and advertising firms tracking Apple's new mobile operating system iOS 7 said today that its uptake has been 14% faster than last year's iOS 6.
1 week 3 days ago
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Compromises -- ones Apple decided not to make -- necessary to drive down component costs for a $400 smartphone.
1 week 3 days ago
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iPhone 5S' fingerprint scanner the source of pinched supply, says IHS analyst Andrew Rassweiler.
1 week 4 days ago
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Microsoft last week painted Windows XP consumer and small business customers into an even smaller corner when it said it could not recommend that they upgrade to Windows 8.1, the update to Windows 8 slated to ship Oct. 18.
1 week 6 days ago
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With Microsoft facing an almost insurmountable challenge to remain viable, some see parallels between the software giant and DEC, the high-flying tech titan of the 1980s that had all but disappeared by 1996.
1 week 6 days ago
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Microsoft said that hackers are exploiting a critical, but unpatched, vulnerability in IE8 and IE9. Its engineers are working on an update to plug the hole.
2 weeks 4 days ago
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Apple's move to 64-bit with its A7 chip inside the iPhone 5S gives the company the flexibility to launch a new line of tablet-based devices to replace at least some Intel-driven Macs, analysts said today.
2 weeks 5 days ago
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A Microsoft MVP and Windows expert has sent company CEO Steve Ballmer a letter asking him to look into the worrisome trend of releasing sub-standard patches.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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Microsoft will pay at least $200 for used iPads made by rival Apple, and in return issue credit that customers can use to buy one of the company's Surface tablets.
3 weeks 2 days ago
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HP TippingPoint's ZDI, along with Google and BlackBerry, will sponsor November edition of Pwn2Own that focuses on smartphones and tablets.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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An Office 2013 non-security update, part of yesterday's massive Patch Tuesday, blanks the folder pane in Outlook 2013, the suite's email client, drawing complaints from users.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Apple just can't keep a secret these days. Experts expect few surprises after 'a thorough leaking of Apple's most likely plans.'
3 weeks 5 days ago
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Microsoft should have given up on Windows Phone while it could, instead of doubling down on the mobile OS with its Nokia acquisition.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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Betting firms shorten odds on the former Nokia chief executive, make him the front-runner by far
4 weeks 20 hours ago
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Apple appears likely to release OS X Mavericks, its next edition of the Mac operating system, near the end of October.
4 weeks 2 days ago
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Microsoft today said it will ship 14 security updates next week to patch critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and SharePoint, its enterprise collaboration platform.
4 weeks 3 days ago
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Mobile browsing continued to post gains last month at the expense of personal computers, a trend that has put Google into the second spot behind Microsoft as the browser maker with the longest reach, a Web metrics company said.
4 weeks 5 days ago
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Maybe people are listening to Microsoft's demand that they ditch Windows XP.
4 weeks 6 days ago
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Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8's user share in August is now larger than Vista's at the same point in the latter's post-launch timeline.
5 weeks 12 hours ago
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Apple faces a threat from an unexpected quarter: Chinese developers crafting Android apps, an analytics firm said.
5 weeks 2 days ago
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The PC industry's problems continue to worsen, research firm IDC said yesterday as it again lowered shipment forecasts for the year. And the personal computer business's problems are Microsoft's problems.
5 weeks 2 days ago
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