Microsoft

140 million copies of Vista sold. How does Leopard compare?

Apple has no numbers to compare with the 140 million copies of Vista that Bill Gates says Microsoft has sold since the latest version of Windows started shipping in late 2006.
Literally, no numbers. The last time Apple released a Leopard sales figure was Oct. 30, 2007, when the company said that it had sold […]

Microsoft + Yahoo?

Found this one on Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows. Here is a quick quote from that great post:
On Friday, February 1, 2008, Microsoft unexpectedly announced a massive $44.6 billion offer to purchase ailing online giant Yahoo. Since that time, I’ve been analyzing how this attempted takeover will affect Microsoft and the consumers who use the […]

Why Microsoft won’t make an iPhone

Has Bill Gates learned the lesson of Zune?
Having gone up against the iPod with Microsoft’s (MSFT) MP3 player and failed to make much of a dent in Apple’s (AAPL) dominant share of the portable digital music market, Gates seems to be conceding the field for all-in-one devices to the iPhone.
Thompson Financial reports today that in […]