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.
Are you addicted to Chrome extensions on your Windows computer? That’s fine but going forward, you won’t be able to install extensions from third-party sources if you’re on either the Beta… Read more »
For better or worse, cloud computing has rushed toward centralization, leaving us with few options for where our data can live. It’s time to consider more private alternatives to the centralized… Read more »
The mobile payment sector is evolving quickly and chaotically, with incumbents and startups competing for not only market share but also the ability to establish the business’ rules and technological standards. Read more »
Remember when Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, called Microsoft a ‘disaster’ last September at Techcrunch, and said that Bill Gates should return as CEO? And then in January this year, at… Read more »
Salesforce CRM will not run in Azure, but the company will use Microsoft’s cloud for development and testing of ExactTarget in addition to offering integration between Salesforce and Office 365. Read more »
This week’s Structure show: Bill Fathers on VMware’s hybrid cloud opportunity; And Mesophere founder Florian Leibert on the beauty of Mesos for management of massive resource pools. Read more »
We knew Microsoft has had smartwatch aspirations for some time — remember the SPOT Watches above from a decade ago? — and now it appears that such a device will work with more… Read more »
Smartwatch makers have generally ignored Windows Phone, opting instead to support Android and iOS handsets. The Hot Watch is getting some help from Microsoft to change that with Windows Phone support… Read more »