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.
The Finnish cloud firm has finally make its long-promised expansion into North America, claiming it wanted to wait until it had suitably differentiating features before doing so. Read more »
Enterprises can leverage bare metal clouds to have more control over cloud services, cost issues, better performance, and security concerns. Read more »
Nine big tech powers really want the USA Freedom Act — which would curtail some of the government’s data gathering activities — to pass and are pushing the Senate to get… Read more »
Nokia — the remaining phone-free Finnish firm, not the handset business that Microsoft bought and recently renamed — has something in store for us. In a Monday tweet teasing the unveiling… Read more »
The Financial Times reported that Facebook is building a suitable-for-work version of its popular social network. Which begs the question: Do we really want to use Facebook for work? Read more »
Microsoft is trying to clarify what they mean when they say they’re a ‘productivity and platform’ company. Clearly, Microsoft has larger ambitions than so-called productivity apps: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and so… Read more »
After years of driving PCs to be commodities, Microsoft is now imbuing devices that have Google operating systems with Windows. The doubles have their place along with Microsoft’s own devices, but… Read more »
OpenStack backer Rackspace jumps on Azure bandwagon, Microsoft ally Apprenda embraces Amazon Web Serivces. What’s going on here? The week in cloud. Read more »
Now that you can spend $199 and get either a Google Chromebook or a Windows 8.1 with Bing laptop, which is better? It depends on your needs, of course, but this… Read more »