Just six months into one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest fix-it projects, the company has gone back to the drawing board.
The software giant, in an unusually frank admission about the shortcomings of its Windows 8 operating system, has confirmed that it is making changes to its sales strategy and to its software to address user complaints with a coming update dubbed “Windows Blue.” Getty Images
Visitors try out Windows 8 Surface tablet computers.
“The world is changing and changing fast, and frankly we also didn’t get everything we dreamed of done in the first release,” said Tami Reller, a co-head of Microsoft’s flagship Windows business, in an interview last week.
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