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.
The time for enterprise-wide expensive solutions for collaboration has passed. Today’s collaboration tools are cloud-based and driven by more immediate mobile and video formats, and by companies such as Adobe, Blue… Read more »
This quarter we saw faster growth in the cloud computing and big data marketplaces, with mega deals in VC funding in the big data space and new intensity in the public… Read more »
The Nokia deal is done. Microsoft now owns the mobile phone part of the pioneering Finnish communications company that famously missed the transition to touch and watched its fortunes crumble. Back… Read more »
This week, we took a look at how modern businesses are using cloud collaboration tools, and examined how future data centers could control and allocated their power supplies with software. Read more »
Ubiquitous connectivity, file sync-and-share, and a new generation of office apps continued to disrupt the modern workforce during the first quarter. Read more »
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly just switched its entire IT footprint to Amazon Web Services, saving money and improving performance in the process. As clouds keep getting cheaper and better, resistance to… Read more »
Alexia Tsotsis has a gift for attention-grabbing headlines, and today’s piece on Vic Gundoltra’s hasty departure from Google after leading the push on Google+ since 2011 is no exception. She titles… Read more »
Could a Microsoft Surface Mini running Windows RT be a hit? Not unless it’s priced competitively against the already available small Windows 8 slates and Universal Windows Apps start showing up… Read more »