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.
Now that editing Office docs on an iPad doesn’t require an Office 365 subscription, those who paid for the feature can get a refund. It’s a smart move by Microsoft by… Read more »
Just two weeks after the announced Lumia branding change, Microsoft is teasing the next Lumia handset — its first without the word Nokia attached to it — with a debut of… Read more »
In an interview with Gigaom on Thursday, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot spoke about the company’s $100 million third quarter and the challenges it faces as it continues to grow. He… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show we talk about Google’s cloud and to Google cloud marketing guy Brian Goldfarb about how Google, AWS and Microsoft clouds stack up. Read more »
Windows and Office, locked at the hip, drove Microsoft’s hugely profitable software business. Now the company is starting to decouple the dynamic duo. Read more »
Search warrants issued by an American judge only cover U.S. territory. The Justice Department wants to change that — even as Microsoft fights in court to stop a search warrant from… Read more »
The landscape of data solutions has been significantly disrupted in the last several years, on multiple fronts. Another such disruption is taking place now, with the mainstreaming of in-memory database (IMDB)… Read more »
Microsoft has decided to make Office apps for iPhone, iPad, and — soon — Android freely downloadable, and will not require users to create a paid Office 365 account to do… Read more »
Microsoft is quickly learning that adding more Office users for free may be more useful than gaining fewer Office users at a cost: Office 365 subscriptions are no longer required for… Read more »