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.
Steve Ballmer binge-watched all 100 episodes of The Good Wife after stepping down from his CEO post at Microsoft. Then he made a list on what to do next. Read more »
Recent comments by machine learning experts have caused a stir, but debate over the novelty or architecture of deep learning might be best left in academia . As AI techniques make… Read more »
For many companies in the Big Data and analytics arena, Strata + Hadoop World was the climax of their Fall news cycles. For Microsoft, the pace and sustained duration of the… Read more »
The trend toward zero-cost file storage continues to ratchet along. The newest news is from Microsoft, which is rolling out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 users at no additional cost… Read more »
Hybrid cloud blueprint recommends lots of VCE, EMC and VMware gear with support for AWS, Microsoft Azure and vCloud Air public clouds coming next year. Read more »
Is the difference between cloud storage provides about free space? In a word, no. I wrote about the cloud storage wars and potential bubble here: The cloud storage wars heat up… Read more »
SmartThings, the smart home software and hub maker has launched a Windows phone app to control its services. This joins the existing iOS and Android apps and should help reassure those… Read more »