LAS VEGAS, CES 2012 — Our very-British Editor Leander and I were invited to sit in with Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane, and Alex Linday for Tuesday’s live episode of Macbreak Weekly. We had a hoot ‘n hollerin’ good time playing with new gadgets from...Cult Of Mac Says Why Microsoft Might Be The Next Apple On Macbreak [CES 2012]
LAS VEGAS, CES 2012 — Our very-British Editor Leander and I were invited to sit in with Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane, and Alex Linday for Tuesday’s live episode of Macbreak Weekly. We had a hoot ‘n hollerin’ good time playing with new gadgets from...Steve Ballmer’s Final CES Keynote A Letdown, Despite Good Software [CES 2012]
Oh the irony! Microsoft showed off some of its best software in years at its final keynote at CES. But just as Microsoft seems to be getting its act together — its pulling out of the U.S.’s largest technology show. Steve Ballmer didn’t dance...‘Steve Ballmer has done to Microsoft what George W. Bush did to the United States’
The company's annual meeting triggers a flood of bitter comments from current and former employees
The Microsoft (MSFT) blogs are having a field day mining the stream of comments left on Mini-Microsoft after Friday's annual employee meeting. The site has traditionally been a place for staffers to let off steam anonymously, but the tone and volume of the...
97% of Apple Employees Approved of Steve Jobs
If you’re a regular visitor to Cult of Mac, you’ll already have some appreciation of how terrific Steve Jobs is. But do his employees share the same opinion of him as us fans? Well, according to the employment reviews and rating site Glassdoor,...Ballmer Confirms Skype’s Commitment to Other Platforms
Ballmer Confirms Skype’s Commitment to Other Platforms We will continue to invest in Skype on non-Microsoft client platforms,” said Ballmer during a news conference announcing the company’s plan to buy chat and Internet phone software maker Skype for $8.5 billion. Following this morning’s big announcement of Microsoft buying online communication giant Skype for $8.5 billion,...
Jobs’ net is bigger than Ballmer’s
For the first time in decades, Apple's net income has overtaken Microsoft's One by one, the bragging rights are going Steve Jobs' way. In May 2010, Apple's (AAPL) market cap passed Microsoft's (MSFT). In October, Apple overtook Microsoft in total revenue. On Thursday, when Microsoft reported its earnings for the March quarter, Steve Ballmer lost...
Microsoft to announce slates to take on the iPad at CES
(I checked the date. It says today.) The NYTimes says that Microsoft is going to announce some iPad competin’ Slates at CES: Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will present a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the Apple iPad, which has quickly become the...
How to pack a Microsoft store opening
Dave Matthews and 2,000 free Miley Cyrus concert tickets will do the trick The air was scented with "bamboo sage." The walls were lined with 100 monitors. The cheering staff was clad in primary colors, ready to break out in dance at a moment's notice. But it was not the tables full of Dells and...
Jobs’ is now bigger than Ballmer’s
Four years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) pulled in nearly $6 billion more in sales than Apple (AAPL). Now Apple's is total revenue is $4.1 billion bigger than Microsoft's. Meanwhile, Apple's market cap, which overtook Microsoft's in May, continues to outpace Redmond's. The total value of its shares now stands at $279.6 billion, compared with Microsoft's $227.4...
Report: Steve Jobs was ‘furious’ over Microsoft’s acquisition of Bungie
Apple hasn't shown a lot of initiative on the gaming side of things (this past "Back to the Mac" event was the first time the company even mentioned Steam coming to the Mac, something even Valve has admitted is a huge deal), but apparently Steve Jobs s...
Microsoft working on apps for iPad
It's funny -- for all of Microsoft's blustery bravado and insecure jealousy, the company really seems to spread itself around pretty evenly. Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott has tweeted that Microsoft is indeed working on apps for the iPad. So, despite...
