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 company pushes beyond its telecom roots but also wields networking expertise to offer what it says is a price-competitive private cloud that can burst to its big public cloud brother. Read more »
Windows laptops can surely run more apps than a Chromebook so if the devices are priced the same, people will simply choose the Microsoft option, right? Not necessarily because the experience… Read more »
The injunction orders Apple, Google and Microsoft to not only remove Secret (or a Secret client, in Microsoft’s case) from their app stores, but also to remotely wipe it from citizens’… Read more »
Experiments at many leading large-scale data centers hold lessons for smaller ones that may not have the dedicated engineering and facilities staffs to fine-tune their data center’s efficiency. Read more »
Netflix, the online streaming giant, has signed a paid peering deal with Time Warner Cable, meaning that it now has deals with the four biggest U.S. ISPs. Read more »
Facebook announced Tuesday that 95 percent of the notification emails it sends out are now being encrypted using STARTTLS — the extension used to encrypt insecure network connections between mail providers… Read more »
HTC is repurposing its high-quality One M8 hardware design to produce a high-end Windows Phone for Verizon’s network in the U.S. The phone is HTC’s first new Windows Phone device since… Read more »
Several Microsoft Azure services — virtual machines, cloud services, StorSimple, backup and site recovery — were off line for hours Monday afternoon. Read more »
Sure, they’ve been talking mobile for a while, but now that Amazon has followed Microsoft in unveiling its mobile development toolset, the other enterprise IT guys need to make some noise. Read more »