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.
Box for Office 365 supposedly puts Box front and center and will allow for users to share attachments in Outlook via Box. Additionally, the file-sync and sharing company is giving away… Read more »
The wait for Windows Phone 8.1 and all of its improvements is over now that Microsoft has started to roll the software out around the world. Also included is the Lumia… Read more »
A newly-published list of GCHQ tools that were in operation or being developed a couple years back, provides a fascinating insight into modern propaganda and disinformation techniques. Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom Research curator for social, offers his take on what he sees as ‘Announcements from Microsoft and Amazon that will impact the world for… Read more »
Many acknowledge the need to manage mobile content, but there is currently no consensus on how to do so. Enter the mobile content management software market, which holds a number of… Read more »
A terrible Google+ experience keeps me from using Windows Phone handsets full time. This weekend, I tried gPlus — a Metro client for Google’s social service — and it (along with… Read more »
After its “Scroogled” ad campaign against Chromebooks, Microsoft is now reiterating it has “a great value proposition against” Google’s Chrome OS laptops. Look for $99 Windows tablets and sub-$200 Windows laptops… Read more »
Last week we witnessed the reorienting of two giant work technology players — Amazon and Microsoft — with enormous impacts for the industry, and the marketplace. Amazon announced Zocalo, its entry… Read more »