Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
Mountain View-based startup Atheer plans to announce today a second developer version of its augmented reality glasses, moving it closer to the long-promised headset it plans to sell to businesses. The refreshed… Read more »
Techcrunch reports that Microsoft is continuing its acquisition spree for competitive productivity apps, scooping up calendar company Sunrise for something over $100 million. This follows the recent release of Outlook for iOS… Read more »
Microsoft’s been buying up mobile app startups recently to go along with CEO Satya Nadella’s “mobile-first, mobile everywhere” mantra, and its latest purchase is calendar maker Sunrise for “north of $100… Read more »
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion on “real… Read more »
When you hear from SAP these days, the software giant always leads with HANA, its in-memory database. HANA is to SAP what Watson is to IBM — proof that just because a… Read more »
So here’s some irony for you: For years, Andy Palmer and his oft-time startup partner Michael Stonebraker have pointed out that database software is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Companies, they said,… Read more »
If you’re looking for clean data then connected apartments offer a much better set of information than connected homes argues Sce Pike, the founder… Read more »
Another potentially big product migration lies ahead for Microsoft shops with Windows Server 2003 end-of-life milestone looming on July 14, 2015. Windows XP, the popular (if dated) desktop OS, hit the end of the road… Read more »
Take yourself back a couple of decades and the IT industry looked very different than it does today. Back then the number of solution choices was relatively limited and only available… Read more »
Immediately following my weekly update (see Google’s new Inbox goes beyond folders), which was focused on Google’s new Inbox, a replacement UI for Gmail, I learned that Amazon had just announced Amazon… Read more »