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.
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript framework, is getting its own open-source foundation and will no longer be governed by Joyent, the cloud-infrastructure provider plans to announce on Tuesday. It should take… Read more »
Microsoft wants to boost its cloud’s profile among startups so it’s making $500,000 in Azure credits available to Y Combinator-backed companies. The credits start rolling with the Winter 2015 class and will… Read more »
VMware recently announced the integration of vCloud Air with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Services to be integrated include: Google Cloud Storage (object), Google BigQuery (analytics), Google Cloud Datastore (NoSQL), and Google… Read more »
John Cullinane, who co-founded what many characterize as the industry’s first standalone software startup back in 1968 near Boston, thinks the city could do itself a favor in attracting corporate headquarters… Read more »
When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 for phones last month, the on-stage message was that all Windows Phone 8.1 devices would get the upgrade. Now we may have to define the word… Read more »
Satya Nadella has had a good first year as Microsoft CEO, pushing hard on his bet on a ‘mobile first, cloud first’ strategy. Quarterly (Q2 2015) results for the company were reported… Read more »
It’s been just over a year since I left Netflix and joined Battery Ventures. So it seemed appropriate (if a couple of weeks late) to take a look back at some technology and… Read more »
The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts or about 26 percent of total headcount — predicted by… Read more »
Like the iPod and iPhone, the HoloLens represents an inspiring connection of hardware and software that will take its company in a new direction. But unlike Apple’s immense successes, Microsoft is… Read more »
With all of the hoops that developers have to jump through to get their iOS apps into the App Store, its amazing that there are any Apps in the App Store… Read more »