Microsoft’s original mission was “a computer on every desk and in every home.” OK, sure, it was a “temporal goal,” not an enduring mission, as current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella… Read More
Sitting in a conference room at Microsoft Windows headquarters in Redmond last week, Tami Reller was surrounded by a fleet of touch-screen notebooks and tablets from major PC makers, representing… Read More
The concept of the stylus as an input for computing has been around for a long time, with people dragging items around the screen with a pen and scribbling in… Read More
Microsoft is acquiring Perceptive Pixel, a New York-based company known as a pioneer in multitouch technologies for large displays. Founded by NYU researcher Jeff Han, the company is best known… Read More
Windows 8 is on track to be released to computer makers the first week of August, and it will be generally available to end users at the end of October,… Read More
As much as Andy Rooney might have turned himself into a caricature over the years, he is an iconic crank, one of the best there ever was. His retirement from 60… Read More
For better or worse, the upcoming week is shaping up as one of the most pivotal in Microsoft’s history. Over the span of a few days, the company’s top executives… Read More
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, the custom computer maker based in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. In… Read More
Google’s Chromebook computers are making their debut in stores this week to mixed reviews. With instant-on startup, all-day battery life and lightweight web apps, they seem to be what many… Read More
Here’s one for the silicon geeks. At a conference in Bellevue this morning, AMD introduced its new Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing Units — new types of processors, known as APUs, that… Read More
The IDC market research firm today reduced its forecast for PC shipments for 2011 to 4.2 percent, from its previous projection of 7.1 percent. IDC cited factors including an “increasingly… Read More
Have we finally witnessed the death of the Blue Screen of Death? OK, so that’s still a bit of a reach, but new numbers this morning from the American Customer Satisfaction… Read More
Are iPads and other tablet computers mobile devices? That was one of the lively discussions today at the MobileNorthwest conference in Seattle. Starbucks director of mobile K.C. MacLaren got things rolling in… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other… Read More
New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter — the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the… Read More