Microsoft can make the walls of your room display webpages
Microsoft has a hefty research arm, with offices in Seattle, Silicon Valley, and other parts of the world. In these little oases, a whole lot of PhDs work without the stress of bringing a product to...
View ArticleWhy IBM thinks Windows Phone is best for the enterprise
The BYOD movement is how Apple got into the enterprise, but if it were up to IT pros, you'd be issued a Windows Phone. That's what IBM has found in its work with large firms.
View ArticleIf Microsoft gives away Windows Phone 8, will anyone take it?
Rumors and speculation have swirled on this for months, but now it's official: Microsoft is giving away Windows Phone for free, at least to a pair of Indian handset makers. If this can drive sales, it...
View ArticleWhat happens when your Office 365 subscription runs out? Ransom
It's no secret that Microsoft would like to move as many customers as it can to a subscription model for Office instead of the traditional version installed on PCs. That was the impetus behind the...
View ArticleMy most-wanted software feature: rollbacks
The conventional wisdom is to always use the latest version of software. The latest version is supposed to be the most stable, up-to-date, and secure version, right? Not always. RELATED: What happens...
View ArticleIn defense of Microsoft's leak investigation
By now, you've probably heard about the former Microsoft employee arrested for spilling trade secrets to a French website, and the impact it has had throughout the underground community that thrived on...
View ArticleCan GameStop survive competition from Microsoft and Walmart?
Second-hand games are a $2 billion market, and most of that goes to the GameStop chain. But now Walmart wants a piece of that action, the second bit of bad news for GameStop in as many months. It came...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Nokia acquisition continues to look like a mistake
Microsoft had hoped to finish buying up Nokia's Devices and Services business by this quarter. With the end of the quarter now just a few days away, that is now looking less likely, and more hurdles...
View ArticleHere's hoping Microsoft gives away more code
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View is a trip down memory lane like no other. My first few computers were non-PCs, and these days, that's the only place I can find a working Apple IIe or Amiga...
View ArticleWindows Phone Builds some momentum
Even in the days leading up to the Build conference, it was clear Windows Phone was getting some wind behind its back. Windows Phone has surpassed 400,000 apps and the Windows Store now gets 14 million...
View ArticleWhat's next for the Chrome extension that hacked LinkedIn profiles?
A Chrome/Firefox browser extension caused some consternation at LinkedIn because of a feature that would have let users "hack in" to profiles, even if you are not connected with that person. Sell Hack...
View Article50 years of BASIC: Celebrating the programming language's long, eventful life
Credit: Dartmouth College Library BASIC creators John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. The mainframe isn't the only technology hitting the ripe old age of 50 this year.
View ArticleAttention Windows 8.1 users: Update 1 is not an option
Windows 8.1 Update 1 (that is so clumsy) has been rolling out all week and reviewers are singing hosannas to the update, which focuses on making the OS more keyboard- and mouse-friendly. See our own...
View ArticleWindows XP holdouts explain why they haven't upgraded
OK, Armageddon has passed, and I was wrong. April 9 was not the new Y2K bug. In this case, I'm glad I was wrong. However, Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP (and Office 2003, we often forget...
View ArticleHow users are fixing Windows 8.1 Update install problems
Within days of Microsoft unleashing Windows 8.1 Update, users began flooding Microsoft support boards with problems during the install. Microsoft has been rather mum on the issue, but skilled users...
View ArticleUpcoming Windows end-of-life deadlines we should be talking about
The demise of Windows XP has gotten a huge amount of press, which would have been better if this kind of volume happened three or six months ago so people knew to move, but that point is moot now. What...
View ArticleMicrosoft Security Essentials goes bonkers just as support ends
Back when we were counting the days until the demise of Windows XP, there was some back and forth over whether or not Microsoft would continue to support Microsoft Security Essentials, its free...
View ArticleMicrosoft to give away some of the last Nokia phones ever
Microsoft's $7.2 billion purchase of the Nokia handset business is now in the record books, and it didn't come at a hefty price like I feared. That's good for Microsoft, for now. I still think the...
View ArticleMicrosoft cheaper to use than open source software, UK CIO says
A UK government CIO says that every time government people compare open source and Microsoft products, Microsoft products always come out cheaper in the long run. Jos Creese, CIO of the Hampshire...
View ArticleWhy is a former NFL cheerleader making Google and Facebook nervous?
What's so bad about one former cheerleader that Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, Gawker and BuzzFeed are all teaming up legally against her? She may finally make Websites liable for their...
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