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.
Dina Bass at Bloomberg Business has been tipped by people familiar with Microsoft’s plans that Satya Nadella is planning to continue his acquisitions of mobile productivity applications for iOS and Android. Nadella… Read more »
That Galaxy S6 phone Samsung is expected to introduce on March 1 could have one big trick up its sleeve: Microsoft apps pre-installed. That’s the word from SamMobile’s sources, which previously… Read more »
Microsoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a popular benchmark. While it’s estimated that humans can classify images in… Read more »
Microsoft promised a preview version of Windows 10 for phones would arrive before the end of February and it delivered on that promise earlier this week. If you’ve signed up for… Read more »
I’m trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the easier you can make it for people to analyze… Read more »
Add another option to the freely available online productivity software suites: Anyone can sign up for and use Apple’s iWork for iCloud, even if they don’t have a Mac or iOS… Read more »
Email is undergoing a renaissance, of sorts. Perhaps the oldest social tool, email has the hardiness of the cockroach, and now is rebounding due to the rise of mobile. Part of… Read more »
It’s here: Windows 10 for phones is ready for the public to preview. Microsoft announced that it was pushing the beta OS to intrepid testers through its Windows Insider program on… Read more »
Machine Learning has been around for well over a decade and, with the rise of “Big Data” analytics, has become especially prominent in the last few years. Many companies are now… Read more »
Pity your private cloud, if you have one. If cloud analysts are to be believed, private cloud is losing ground as public cloud providers — chiefly Amazon Web Services, Google, and… Read more »