Windows Vista was a significant failure for Microsoft, as not only did it suffer critically and commercially, but it also made people lose faith in company. It seems like Windows 8 might be producing this same effect, as Microsoft’s customer satisfaction level has dropped to levels it hasn’t been at since Vista launched in 2007. While the American Customer Satisfaction Index put Microsoft’s satisfaction rating at a record high in 2011 with 78 out of 100 points, since the launch of Windows 8 in 2012, this number has since dropped to 74 out of 100. This is only one point

Apple confirmed today that it will be holding its WWDC keynote presentation on June 10, the opening day of the five day conference. The news comes as no surprise since Apple always chooses to kick-off the conference with its keynote. Other news about the keynote such as who will be speaking and what exactly will be unveiled are still unknown. We do, however, know for sure that Apple will show off its next version of OS X and iOS at the presentation. Newly updated Macbook Airs with Intel’s Haswell processors also seem like a fair bet. Expect Tim Cook to

Microsoft doesn’t seem quite done bashing the iPad. The company has released another ad that pits the Asus VivoTab Smart against Apple’s tablet, following up yesterday’s ad which made fun of the limitations of Siri. Today’s ad focuses on comparing a number of features between the two tablets. It shows off how the size and weight of the Asus are better, and then how it is better at things like running Office or mulltitasking. The best diss comes at the end of the video, where each tablet tries to print a picture, and while the Asus tablet successfully prints one

While Apple is known not to spend as much money lobbying Washington as other large corporations, it seems as though the company is on track to significantly increase this spending amount, by doubling it to $4 million this year. Apple’s increase in spending comes at a time where the U.S. government has been much tighter on the company, having recently grilled Tim Cook and his company for allegedly having avoided paying $9 billion in U.S. taxes by keeping $100 billion in oversea accounts, despite companies like General Electric keeping 108 billion dollars overseas. While Apple spent $2 million on lobbying

Google has been logging data about popular search trends for quite a while with its Hot Searches page, but now you can see all the hot trends in a sleek full-screen visualization. The full-screen hot trend visualizer shows the same data, but in a full-screen grid that keeps updating. You can easily change which country you want to see hot trends for at the bottom of the screen, and Google says that it updates trending searches as they happen so you’re always seeing the most up-to-date hot trends. Along with the new visualization, Google also created a new charts feature