Hardware 
Microsoft Surface is all about Apple – Beta News
Microsoft can’t compete with Apple on those terms, and there is need as the fruit … Gaining market share, particularly against iPad, is more important now than making money selling hardware. The question I’ve been asking for days, why June … Continue reading
Microsoft seeks Apple fizz with tablet gamble – Financial Times
“If Microsoft’s plan is to chase Apple in content consumption, they have to find use cases where they are superior to iPad,” he says. With this week’s demonstration of its hardware prowess, Microsoft has at least cleared the first hurdle. … Continue reading
After 40 Years, Microsoft Wants to Be the Next Apple – Motley Fool
Microsoft Surface will probably see some success, and the next major strategic dilemma will be whether the software giant decides to expand its integration and jump into more hardware if Surface does particularly well. Maybe, just maybe …
Apple Should Make Stock Market History This Year – Motley Fool
Microsoft owned more than 90% of the PC operating system market when it maxed out, Cisco claimed in excess of 70% share of networking, and Intel occupied north of 80% of the processor market. Apple represented just 4.7% of the … Continue reading
Microsoft Unveils a Tablet to Challenge the iPad – New York Times
LOS ANGELES — In its biggest-ever push into the hardware business, Microsoft on Monday unveiled a tablet computer called Surface that is designed to challenge Apple’s iPad. At an event here, the company showed off the device, which is about … Continue reading
Move Over Apple: Microsoft Shows Off It’s Own Tablet – CNBC
Apple is the major player in the tablet space … “They’ve got to have a piece of hardware and the tablet is it.”
Move Over Apple—Microsoft Shows Off Own Tablet – CNBC
Apple is the major player in the tablet space … “They’ve got to have a piece of hardware and the tablet is it.”
Microsoft’s Los Angeles event: the big reveal – Financial Times
This is a total flip of MSFTs business model of software licensing. 4.52pm There’s something very Apple-esque about the way Microsoft is talking up the hardware design breakthroughs it had to come up with to pack in the computing power … Continue reading
Apple MacBook Air 13-Inch vs. Vizio 14-Inch Thin and Light Laptop – PC Magazine
The one-two punch of the recent Apple MacBook Air update and Vizio’s entry into the … to the entry level MacBook Air 13-inch because both have a third-generation (Ivy Bridge) Intel Core i5 processor. The entry-level Vizio CT14-A0 comes with … Continue reading
Former AT&T exec admits to leaking iPhone info to investors – Ars Technica
it was revealed that an unidentified person at Goldman Sachs itself had been fingered for leaking secrets about Apple and Intel to a hedge fund manager—a discovery that was made during investigations in the Gupta case. (Gupta is accused of … Continue reading
