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.
Lawyers say never to sign (or click on) anything without reading it first, but that rule typically goes out the window when it comes to complex-yet-boring end user licensing agreements (EULAs)… Read more »
Microsoft introduced its new browser for Windows 10 on Wednesday but only shared a glimpse of what to expect from Project Spartan. One day later, the company is providing a bit… Read more »
Looking back at our live blog from the Microsoft Windows 10 event, I noticed two letters missing: An R and a T. That’s right, Windows RT — the desktop version of… Read more »
Amidst the hoopla of Microsoft’s Windows 10 event yesterday, I missed a thoughtful letter posted on the BlackBerry blog. CEO John Chen penned it, sharing his thoughts with the FCC on… Read more »
Keeping track of popular mobile apps not available on Windows Phone? You’ll need to cross one off: Dropbox for Windows Phone is now available. The Dropbox team announced the news at a… Read more »
Amazon Web Services is not an organization that rests on its laurels. New stats compiled by CloudEndure show that AWS, the public cloud market leader, boosted reliability significantly over the course of last year,… Read more »
Kim Dotcom’s Mega has launched a public beta of its MegaChat end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service, which it claims will offer a more secure alternative to Skype. The in-browser… Read more »
If you’re interested in assessing how and when a given data technology — deep learning, machine intelligence, natural language generation — can move from… Read more »
I was able to try out HoloLens at Microsoft’s headquarters on Wednesday. HoloLens is a virtual reality headset running what Microsoft thinks will be the future of computing: Windows Holographic. But… Read more »
One of the biggest news items coming out of Microsoft’s Windows 10 preview event is that the operating system will be made available for free to Windows computer owners running Windows… Read more »