Windows 8 portables to get inexpensive, long-lived by Xmas 2013?
Wait until next Christmas to buy a Windows 8 ultrabook for $600, says Intel. Well, more or less. The company predicts that by the end of the year PC makers will be cranking out low-powered portables...
View ArticleWindows 8 guru names the top 8 trends at CES
The man who oversaw production of Windows 8 for Microsoft then quit still has admiration for what his former employer is up to, based on his latest blog about what he liked at CES 2013 last week. The...
View ArticleShould Azure customers worry about reliability?
It’s hard to stay on top of everything all the time so it’s understandable that something like renewing a security certificate could fall through the cracks as it did to Microsoft last week, grinding...
View ArticleMicrosoft could pay billions for running afoul in Europe
Microsoft faces stiff penalties in Europe for failing to give customers there an adequate choice of Web browsers in its Windows operating systems, and now it is being chased by the Danish tax authority...
View ArticleMicrosoft seeks to capture a generation of Office 365 users
Microsoft is offering college students its cloud-based Office service free for six months, a move that could help solidify Office as a package they’ll want to keep using once they graduate. The offer...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hotmail, Outlook, SkyDrive problems could hurt customer confidence
Microsoft paints a rosy picture of customers storing documents and other data in the cloud so they are accessible from any Internet-connected device, but yesterday’s outage of its mail and storage...
View ArticleMicrosoft lures Windows XP business customers to Windows 8 with a 15% discount
Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP just about a year from now and perhaps not coincidentally it is offering a discount to customers who upgrade from XP to Windows 8. The offer is aimed at businesses...
View ArticleFoxconn pays Android license fees to Microsoft despite Google’s claim they’re...
While Google insists that Microsoft doesn’t own intellectual property included in its Android operating system, manufacturers who make Android devices think its smarter to pay Microsoft royalties on...
View ArticleMicrosoft boosts its Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy rating
Microsoft is winning praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for taking stronger stands to protect the privacy of customers’ data that it stores in its cloud data centers. In its annual “Who’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s SkyDrive hits trademark trouble in Europe
You’d think Microsoft would have learned its lesson about trademarks and the European Union, but apparently not. A court in the U.K. says the name of Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud service violates BSkyB’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Ballmer may be going but our direction remains the same
Microsoft promises to keep hammering away at same business principles that were forged during the tenure of CEO Steve Ballmer, who has announced he’s leaving the company within a year. According to The...
View ArticleFAQ: The Microsoft-Nokia deal
Microsoft and Nokia have an agreement under which Microsoft will buy the Finnish phone and services company, thereby actually transforming itself from a software company to a devices and services...
View ArticleSouth Park: A dead Bill Gates engineers the murder of Steve Ballmer over Xbox...
The only thing more brutal than Microsoft-Sony gamebox competition is South Park’s depiction of how brutal that competition is. In the most recent episode, the folks producing the show have created a...
View ArticleWindows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free?
Rumors about the future of Microsoft’s operating systems – Windows, Windows RT, Windows Phone and the XBox OS – indicate possible moves toward consolidation and perhaps even making some of them...
View ArticleA Microsoft version of Android would be a nightmare for everybody
There’s talk about Microsoft embracing Android, either as a mobile OS topped by Windows features and services or by providing support for Android applications within Windows.
View ArticleMicrosoft: Upgrade from Office 2003, but not to Office 2013
When support for the decade-old Office 2003 expires April 8 customers should transition to Office 365, the cloud-based version of the pervasive productivity suite that will never leave users with an...
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