Gregg Keizer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Gregg Keizer

Article | 7/05/2013 $US300m investment in Nook delivers next to nothing for Microsoft

Microsoft has gotten little from a 2012 investment of $US300 million with Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it's poised to reap some rewards as it an...

Article | 6/05/2013 Gates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad

Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard ...

Article | 6/05/2013 Microsoft's $2B loan to Dell comes with strings

As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current ag...

Article | 25/04/2013 Windows Blue won't solve all Microsoft's problems, analysts say

"Windows 8 sucks because Windows 8 apps suck", said analyst Michael Cherry, not mincing words. "And there's nothing in all these rumors of Windows Blu...

Article | 22/04/2013 Apple's lead over Samsung in future-purchase plan survey cut in half

Apple's iPhone lost ground in the last three months to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey of consumers' future purchase plans, a market resear...

Article | 18/04/2013 Apple sold 35-38 million iPhones last quarter, analysts say

Apple sold about 38 million iPhones in the first quarter, an 8 per cent increase over what it sold in the same quarter a year ago, according to an ISI...

Article | 17/04/2013 Facebook Home on iPhone? Not a chance, say experts

There is absolutely no way that Apple will surrender its iPhone interface to Facebook Home, analysts said today.

Article | 16/04/2013 Microsoft exec talks mobile smack, trashes iOS as 'boring,' Android as 'a mess'

Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones has taken shots at both iOS and Android , calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's...

Article | 11/04/2013 Microsoft's stock slides after dismal PC shipment reports

Microsoft's stock took a beating in trading today after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14% from ...

Article | 11/04/2013 Surface 'Mini': ARM, Atom or both?

Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal...

Article | 10/04/2013 Office for iPad in 2014? Big mistake

A purported Microsoft roadmap for future releases of its Office suite showed a fall 2014 launch date for Office on Apple's iOS and Google's Android mo...

Article | 27/03/2013 Microsoft collects 13 design patents for Surface, keyboard covers

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday awarded Microsoft 13 design patents for its Surface line of tablets, including their innovative Touch k...

Article | 15/03/2013 Galaxy S4 would be the ultimate iPhone, says analyst

Samsung's new Galaxy S4 would be the "ultimate smartphone" if it ran Apple's iOS and accessed the Cupertino, Calif. company's app ecosystem, according...

Article | 12/03/2013 iOS will surrender top tablet spot to Android in 2013, says IDC

Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11 per cent for 2013 and sa...

Article | 27/02/2013 Microsoft exec refuses to be drawn out on Office for iPad

Microsoft's top Office executive, Kurt DelBene, yesterday dodged questions about plans to bring its lucrative suite to Apple's iPad.