The Big Winner of CES 2012 Is… Microsoft?
For a company whose CES swan song is this year, and whose CEO gave a pretty boring keynote address, Microsoft seems to have had an uncommonly successful CES. Windows Phone went into the show a...
View ArticleWindows 8’s Beefy Mobile Broadband Support
Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog has another one of its long, geeky, interesting insider posts. This one’s about how the company is building much more ambitious support for mobile broadband right...
View ArticleMicrosoft May Ditch Xbox Live Points, For Real This Time
Inside Mobile Apps is reporting as rumor what Xbox 360 users have wanted for years: the death of Microsoft Points. Kathleen De Vere’s “source with knowledge of the company’s decision” says Microsoft...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Laptop Near You: Microsoft Kinect?
OK, now this sounds nifty: Microsoft is experimenting with building its Kinect gesture-input system into notebook computers running Windows 8, says The Daily’s Matt Hickey: A source at Microsoft has...
View ArticleDONKEY.BAS is Back!
I didn’t own an IBM PC or clone in the early days, so I missed out on the wonder of DONKEY.BAS, which came bundled with early versions of MS-DOS and was the first PC game. In fact, I don’t think I knew...
View ArticleOffice 15 is On the Way (and That’s All We Know)
As ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports, Microsoft has announced that it’s begun a technical preview of Office 15, the next version of its suite. That means that work is progressing on the product, and it...
View ArticleStart Button No More?
Since I first saw and used Windows 8 last year, I’ve been wondering if Microsoft might end up tweaking it a bit to make it less of a shock to the system of all those Windows users out there–a sizable...
View ArticleThe Windows 8 Logo Defines Microsoft’s Future
There you have it, Microsoft’s new logo for Windows 8. It’s a dramatic departure from the logos of the past, where color and flashiness took an increasing role, and it looked less like a window and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Online Storage Curveball: Office 365 Now Comes With a Terabyte of...
Starting shortly, Microsoft is upgrading the storage plans it offers for OneDrive, the online storage service formerly known as SkyDrive. You’ll get 15GB of space for free, which the company says is...
View ArticleSatya Nadella’s Microsoft Vision is Strikingly Different From Steve Ballmer’s...
Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad at an event in San Francisco on March 27, 2014 At 6am this morning, Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, sent his colleagues a long memo spelling out his...
View ArticleThe Big Winner of CES 2012 Is… Microsoft?
For a company whose CES swan song is this year, and whose CEO gave a pretty boring keynote address, Microsoft seems to have had an uncommonly successful CES. Windows Phone went into the show a...
View ArticleMicrosoft May Ditch Xbox Live Points, For Real This Time
Inside Mobile Apps is reporting as rumor what Xbox 360 users have wanted for years: the death of Microsoft Points. Kathleen De Vere’s “source with knowledge of the company’s decision” says Microsoft...
View ArticleThe Windows 8 Logo Defines Microsoft’s Future
There you have it, Microsoft’s new logo for Windows 8. It’s a dramatic departure from the logos of the past, where color and flashiness took an increasing role, and it looked less like a window and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Online Storage Curveball: Office 365 Now Comes With a Terabyte of...
Starting shortly, Microsoft is upgrading the storage plans it offers for OneDrive, the online storage service formerly known as SkyDrive. You’ll get 15GB of space for free, which the company says is...
View ArticleSatya Nadella’s Microsoft Vision is Strikingly Different From Steve Ballmer’s...
Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad at an event in San Francisco on March 27, 2014 At 6am this morning, Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, sent his colleagues a long memo spelling out his...
View ArticleThe Big Winner of CES 2012 Is… Microsoft?
For a company whose CES swan song is this year, and whose CEO gave a pretty boring keynote address, Microsoft seems to have had an uncommonly successful CES. Windows Phone went into the show a...
View ArticleMicrosoft May Ditch Xbox Live Points, For Real This Time
Inside Mobile Apps is reporting as rumor what Xbox 360 users have wanted for years: the death of Microsoft Points. Kathleen De Vere’s “source with knowledge of the company’s decision” says Microsoft...
View ArticleThe Windows 8 Logo Defines Microsoft’s Future
There you have it, Microsoft’s new logo for Windows 8. It’s a dramatic departure from the logos of the past, where color and flashiness took an increasing role, and it looked less like a window and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Online Storage Curveball: Office 365 Now Comes With a Terabyte of...
Starting shortly, Microsoft is upgrading the storage plans it offers for OneDrive, the online storage service formerly known as SkyDrive. You’ll get 15GB of space for free, which the company says is...
View ArticleSatya Nadella’s Microsoft Vision is Strikingly Different From Steve Ballmer’s...
Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad at an event in San Francisco on March 27, 2014 At 6am this morning, Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, sent his colleagues a long memo spelling out his...
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