Apr 18, 2013, 5:03 PM NPD: Xbox 360 marks 27 straight months atop U.S. market; industry sales sink 10% Xbox 360 just keeps on dominating the U.S. console market. The latest numbers from NPD market research firm are out… Read More
Apr 18, 2013, 4:08 PM Internal Memo: Ballmer on exit of Microsoft finance chief Earlier today, Microsoft chief financial officer Peter Klein announced his plans to leave the company after four years in the… Read More
Apr 18, 2013, 4:05 PM Paul Allen says Steve Ballmer would be a ‘great NBA owner’ Paul Allen thinks his good buddy and former colleague Steve Ballmer would be a “great” NBA owner, but isn’t exactly… Read More
Apr 18, 2013, 3:32 PM Microsoft: Smaller Windows touch devices in the works Microsoft is working with its hardware partners to develop “small touch devices” based on Windows, set for release in the… Read More
Apr 18, 2013, 1:37 PM Microsoft profits top expectations, finance chief Klein leaving Microsoft this afternoon reported profits of 72 cents per share, an increase of 20 percent, beating Wall Street’s estimates by… Read More
Apr 18, 2013, 7:06 AM Nokia’s Windows Phone shipments reach 5.6M units, but Nokia is still struggling Nokia reported a 27 percent quarter-over-quarter increase in shipments of its Lumia line of Windows Phones, rising to 5.6 million… Read More
Apr 17, 2013, 4:54 PM Movie time: Flixster arrives on Xbox Live If Netflix or any other movie app on Xbox Live ain’t cutting it for you, there’s another option now available:… Read More
Apr 17, 2013, 1:25 PM ‘Gates’ bio is back on Kindle, with new take on Jobs vs. Gates More than a decade ago, as I was getting up to speed on the Microsoft beat, one of my new… Read More
Apr 17, 2013, 9:58 AM Microsoft confirms plan to boost security with two-factor login Microsoft this morning confirmed that it will roll out two-factor login for Microsoft Accounts across its major consumer products and… Read More
Apr 17, 2013, 9:09 AM Intel CEO: Microsoft’s Windows 8 faces an ‘adoption curve’ What’s going on with Windows 8, anyway? That was the gist of a question posed to Intel CEO Paul Otellini during… Read More
Apr 17, 2013, 7:30 AM Blake Irving wants GoDaddy to grow up, and keep its edge It’s hard not to notice: New GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving looks a lot like that dude in the company’s logo… Read More
Apr 16, 2013, 7:39 PM Microsoft strikes patent deal with Foxconn parent company for Android and Chrome China’s Hon Hai, the Taipei-based parent company of contract manufacturing giant Foxconn, will pay patent royalties to Microsoft for the… Read More
Apr 16, 2013, 2:00 PM Intel profit drops 17% on softening PC sales Last week, IDC issued a sobering report which indicated that PC shipments for the first quarter fell by 13.9 percent,… Read More
Apr 16, 2013, 8:09 AM Windows Phone exec throws cold water on rumors of Microsoft phone The Microsoft executive who leads the company’s Windows Phone group, this morning came very close to outright denying any plans… Read More
Apr 16, 2013, 7:33 AM Microsoft’s “88 Acres” broadens the landscape for corporate storytelling This interactive online story, 88 Acres, looks at first glance like it comes from a big independent news site —… Read More
Apr 16, 2013, 7:20 AM Report: Microsoft update will give Windows 8 users option to boot directly to desktop As concessions from Microsoft go, this one would be pretty significant, even if it is symbolic. The upcoming “Windows Blue”… Read More
Apr 15, 2013, 6:41 PM Netflix says it’s dumping Microsoft Silverlight and embracing HTML5, someday Netflix says it will stop using Microsoft Silverlight’s technology to stream video on Windows PCs and Macs — just as… Read More
Apr 15, 2013, 10:38 AM Missing Google Reader? Bing updates News app with RSS support, offline reading Those of you still pissed that Google Reader is going away may like the latest updates to Bing’s News App for… Read More
Apr 15, 2013, 9:27 AM Xbox Live outage caused by network configuration problem The widespread outage of the Xbox Live system this weekend was not the result of anyone hacking the service, Microsoft… Read More
Apr 15, 2013, 9:05 AM Hunger Games: Microsoft and Lionsgate push limits of HTML5 with new site Is this a glimpse of the future? Lionsgate this morning released a new website that promotes the next “Hunger Games”… Read More
Apr 14, 2013, 10:13 PM Report: Microsoft may give smartwatches another try Microsoft is no stranger to the concept of wrist-based computing, having worked with watchmakers to release a line of smartwatches… Read More
Apr 13, 2013, 3:54 PM Extended outage hits Xbox Live during peak weekend hours Update, 4:10 p.m.: The service is now back, Microsoft says. Here’s the updated message on the Xbox Live status page:… Read More
Apr 12, 2013, 3:14 PM Search stats: Google slips, Microsoft continues slow growth The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for March and it shows Google slipping just a bit with… Read More
Apr 12, 2013, 1:36 PM Bing adds ‘Pin It’ Pinterest feature to image search Bing is making “Pinning” to Pinterest easy. Today the Microsoft search engine introduced a “Pin to Pinterest” feature that allows users… Read More
Apr 12, 2013, 11:41 AM Sonics update: Former Facebook exec joins Sacramento investor group Another California tech titan is joining the group trying to keep an NBA team in Sacramento and away from Seattle.… Read More
Apr 11, 2013, 10:40 AM Microsoft reportedly building a 7-inch Surface tablet Aiming to compete with the likes of Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD and Google’s Nexus, the Wall Street Journal… Read More
Apr 11, 2013, 10:21 AM GoDaddy plans engineering outpost in Seattle region, hires key Microsoft vets Internet domain giant GoDaddy is expanding to the Seattle region in search of technical talent, GeekWire has learned — becoming… Read More
Apr 11, 2013, 10:19 AM Microsoft creative director is reportedly gone after ‘Deal With It’ dustup on Twitter Adam Orth, the Microsoft Studios creative director who told the company’s critics on Twitter to #dealwithit, is no longer working… Read More
Apr 11, 2013, 5:56 AM Key analysts downgrade Microsoft stock as traditional PC market struggles Two influential analysts downgraded Microsoft’s shares this morning, another blow to the Redmond company as it struggles to gain traction… Read More
Apr 10, 2013, 6:59 PM Microsoft Office for iOS delayed, set to launch fall 2014 A Microsoft Office app for iOS devices was supposed to come out right about now, but it looks like the… Read More
