Microsoft

Despite ill omens, the IDC report about PC volume decline hitting -14% in the first quarter shows once again how much trouble the tech industry is having when it comes to dealing with the ongoing computer meltdown. As I wrote last December, IDC has been completely out to lunch about this key trend for years. Continue Reading →

With a public Twitter account comes great responsibility—a good rule of thumb is that you shouldn’t tweet anything your mother or your boss would object to seeing. According to GameInformer, Microsoft Creative Director Adam Orth’s tone-deaf comments regarding his inability to understand why rumors of an always-connected Xbox were causing some customers angst have led Continue Reading →

Despite a recent preoccupation with the web-based Office 365 service, the folks in Redmond haven’t stopped working to bring regular MS Office to mobile users. ZDNet reports that a leaked Microsoft Office roadmap shows that the ubiquitous productivity suite is due to land on Android and iOS in October of 2014. This seems to confirm Continue Reading →

The FairSearch coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google and Android, saying that the company is using the OS as a Trojan horse to deceive partners and monopolize the mobile marketplace. Android has become the dominant smartphone operating system when counting units sold, with Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Monday via its blog that it will be selling its Mediaroom properties to Ericsson, in a deal that will see Ericsson become the dominant IPTV player in the industry with over 25 percent market share. Mediaroom operates as a pretty much separate company from Microsoft, with its own HQ in Mountain View Continue Reading →

Console wars are a complex and many-parted affair, and Sony has launched its full salvo, with all eyes now on Microsoft to see what kind of return shot they can manage. The next-generation Xbox, codenamed Durango, will apparently get a preview at a special event in May, The Verge’s Tom Warren reports, with an official Continue Reading →

While we still don’t know for certain if Microsoft will really require an always-on Internet connection for its next-generation Xbox, one Microsoft executive doesn’t see why anyone should be upset about the prospect of being online as a prerequisite to playing games. Kotaku has spotted some tweets sent out by Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Continue Reading →

Google Glass is generating a considerable amount of buzz for a product that isn’t going to hit the market until later this year. The highly anticipated device has become so popular that other companies are already thinking about producing their own wearable technology. Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets revealed in a note to investors Continue Reading →

Microsoft reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. “Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013,” Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firm’s OS X development arm, said in a post on the team’s blog Thursday. According to the company’s support lifecycle site, all Continue Reading →

Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling, signaling an attempt by PC makers to quickly clear out stock after poor adoption of tablets and convertibles with the operating system. Microsoft released Windows RT for ARM-based devices and Windows 8 for Intel-based devices in October last year. The price drop is an acknowledgement that Windows Continue Reading →