Paul Thurrott's WinInfo News
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
China antitrust authorities have approved Google’s proposed $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the online advertising giant to ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
A lot has changed with antitrust regulators in the EC since they took Microsoft to court again and again to answer for its predatory practices in the desktop OS market. Now, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
Anyone hoping that last week’s Facebook IPO was going to trigger a new wave of Internet bubble hysteria came away disappointed after the social networking giant stumbled badly and ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/18/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Windows Phone market share surges thanks to Lumia 900, AT&T has big expectations for Windows Phone thanks to Windows ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/17/2012
Just hours after Microsoft launched the biggest revamp of its Bing search engine since its inception 3 years earlier, the search industry’s 800-pound gorilla announced an update ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/16/2012
Microsoft rolled out a set of previously announced changes to Bing that represents the biggest overhaul to its search service since its debut 3 years ago.
By Paul Thurrott, 05/15/2012
With this week’s launch of the AMD “Trinity” processor chipsets—now renamed to the more pedestrian 2nd-Generation A-Series APUs, or Accelerated Processing Units—both of the major ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/14/2012
Staffers for the US Senate Judiciary Committee will examine allegations that Microsoft is unfairly limiting its web browser competitors in the version of Windows 8 aimed at ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/14/2012
Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has resigned from the company after only four months on the job, in the wake of an academic-padding controversy triggered by an activist shareholder ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/11/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including the start of the Windows 8 Upgrade offer, a rumor about an Xbox 360 version of IE, Xbox 360 continues to rule a ...