businessinsider.com - 9/30/2009
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Apple's iPhone has quickly become the world's most important mobile software platform. It's time for Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, to take it more seriously.
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gizmodo.com - 9/23/2009
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Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their
first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are
the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure. These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who'll get to share branding with Microsoft. ...
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The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To ...
blogs.zdnet.com - 10/6/2009
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Microsoft is considering whether it should port the
Zune software and services to other platforms, including Apple's.
There's no guarantee that the Redmondians will end up doing this -- or timetable as to when this could happen -- but it's one of many ...
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Microsoft considering making Zune services available to ...
techcrunch.com - 9/29/2009
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techcrunch.com —
This is the third installment of our exclusive
interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer .
In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are ...
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Microsoft ignores Apple’s iPhone, the world’s dominant mobile software platform, at its own risk
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... 7, 'Pink,' etc. -- Apple is the first to create a mobile software market that people actually use ," Frommer writes. "The company said this week that its 50 million iPhone and iPod touch devices have downloaded 2 billion applications in about 15 months. That's an average 40 applications per device -- a very high number relative to the rest of the mobile industry," Frommer writes. "Meanwhile, of the 85,000 apps in the iPhone App Store, only two were made by Microsoft." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft simply doesn't have the necessary leadership to act ...
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