Microsoft

Microsoft is releasing another Office app for iOS, kind of. The new Office Web App for iPhone and iPad is designed for businesses who use Office 365 to access the full functionality of Outlook Web App. Although Microsoft has been supporting a web version of this previously, the software maker has packaged it up into Continue Reading →

If you’ve been waiting for a price drop to buy a Microsoft Surface tablet, your time is now. Microsoft recently announced a significant price cut in its entry-level Surface RT tablets. These are the less powerful Surface tablets on the market, and don’t run the full version of Windows 8. However, the Surface RTs are Continue Reading →

As Nokia lifted the lid on its new Lumia 1020, a 41-megapixel beast of a smartphone, a number of app-related news nuggets piggy-backed on this announcement in New York earlier on Thursday. First up, Path – the private social network with a 150-friend limit – has revealed that due to uber-popular demand, it’s finally coming Continue Reading →

Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Surface RT tablets. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Surface plans have revealed to The Verge that the price cut could occur as early as next week, with each model being cut by $150. Microsoft’s move to cut prices on its Surface RT tablets follow slow sales, and Continue Reading →

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the Continue Reading →

We’ve heard rumblings of an imminent Microsoft reorganization for some months; on Thursday, it came to pass. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the company’s new shape and its new approach to developing products. The reorganization sees an end to the product-based divisions such as “Windows and Windows Live” and “Microsoft Business Division.” What Ballmer wants Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about Microsoft’s re-aligned business strategy and ‘One Microsoft’ on CNNi’s Quest Means Business. Continue Reading →

Last month, when Microsoft announced its now-famous reversal on the initial licensing policies and online requirements for the Xbox One, we argued that triumphant throngs of gamers should recognize that they were losing out on some potentially interesting features alongside the removal of online check-ins and the revival of used game discs. Now, some armchair Continue Reading →

Over 100 fake apps and games have been discovered in the Windows Store, all using popular names to trick users into downloading them. Some are free, but most are priced at $4.99 and others go for up to $28.99, in a clear attempt to generate as much revenue from ignorant Windows 8 and Windows RT Continue Reading →

Don Mattrick, the former head of Microsoft’s entertainment division who takes the reins as chief executive officer of Zynga on Monday, has been hankering to run all or part of the social-gaming company for at least three years. In 2010, Mattrick negotiated with Zynga founder Mark Pincus about buying the maker of such popular games Continue Reading →