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.
After launching first on the Apple iPad, Parallels Access comes to the small screen so that you can remotely access a Windows PC or a Mac from your iPhone. Make that… Read more »
Don’t like your cloud provider’s block storage options? Well, you’re in luck because it’s likely that Google or Amazon (or Microsoft?) will have a deal for you. Read more »
Predictive analytics comes to the Microsoft cloud, “in-chip analytics” startup SiSense gets more funding, automated predictive analytics startup Context Relevant poaches from Wall Street and Birst embraces HANA. Read more »
Digital Ocean needs a ton more IP addresses for all those compute “droplets” it runs for customers. So it’s moving all its data centers to IPv6 by years’ end. Read more »
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren’t centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from… Read more »
Now that Microsoft has eliminated the cost of Windows licensing on devices smaller than 9-inches, expect more handset makers to try out the software in new phones. Micromax is doing just… Read more »
Comments made by a Cortana product manager suggest Microsoft is working on a version of the voice assistant for Windows 8 laptops and tablets. Read more »
Microsoft, which recently showed off its machine learning research with Skype Translate, is opening up those capabilities with a new cloud service called Azure Machine Learning. Read more »
Microsoft has long used a stealthy strategy to coerce device makers into paying a license for the use of Android software. That may get harder, after the Chinese government published a… Read more »
The consensus of market watchers is that Amazon plans to debut a smartphone this week, attempting to break into a business that is dominated by Apple and Samsung. Or, looking at… Read more »