Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 172 of 234

Mar 15, 2013, 5:00 AM

Zuckerberg leads list of most-liked CEOs; Bezos’ approval rating soars and Ballmer is a no-show in top 50

Do you like the job your boss is doing? If you work at Facebook, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, EMC, SAP, Apple or… Read More

Mar 14, 2013, 5:08 PM

Report: Microsoft has sold just 1.5M Surface tablets

Microsoft has sold a grand total of 1.5 million Surface tablets so far — counting both the Surface RT and… Read More

Mar 14, 2013, 4:02 PM

Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by the Washington Post today and spoke about his support for addressing the threats of cybersecurity.… Read More

Mar 14, 2013, 3:18 PM

Xbox 360 marks 26 straight months atop U.S. market

Xbox dominance in the U.S. will live on another month. The latest numbers from NPD market research firm are out… Read More

Mar 14, 2013, 8:34 AM

Microsoft: Overheating datacenter caused Outlook.com outage

A firmware upgrade failure at one of Microsoft’s datacenters caused the facility to overheat and shut down access to Outlook.com… Read More

Mar 13, 2013, 10:22 PM

Twitter for Windows 8: Microsoft really needed this

Twitter’s official Windows 8 app, released Wednesday night, couldn’t have come a better time for Microsoft. Well, that’s not true.… Read More

Mar 13, 2013, 4:01 PM

Vyclone teams with Microsoft Internet Explorer on social video-editing web app

Social video sharing and editing app Vyclone expanded beyond iOS and Android today with the launch of a web app… Read More

Mar 13, 2013, 1:55 PM

Search stats: Google, Microsoft leading; Yahoo keeps slipping

Google continued to climb up the U.S. search market in February, inching farther ahead of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The… Read More

Mar 12, 2013, 3:59 PM

Here’s how to secure your Sonics tickets for next year

No one knows if the Sonics will be playing NBA basketball in Seattle this fall, but investor Chris Hansen is… Read More

Mar 12, 2013, 2:46 PM

Microsoft update boosts Surface RT wireless, typing and trackpad

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday update, issued today, delivers a series of fixes and updates for users of the company’s Surface… Read More

Mar 11, 2013, 3:02 PM

LinkedIn to buy news-reader app Pulse for $50M-$100M

Though the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo were in talks to acquire popular news-reader app Pulse, it looks like it’s… Read More

Mar 11, 2013, 2:24 PM

Microsoft’s IE10 to run Flash by default on Windows 8, RT

Microsoft announced this afternoon that it’s updating the Modern UI (formerly “Metro”) version of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8… Read More

Mar 11, 2013, 11:59 AM

Microsoft courts college students with extended Office 365 University trial

Microsoft is offering budget-minded U.S. college students a chance to try its new Office 365 University subscription for three months for… Read More

Mar 11, 2013, 9:50 AM

Is that bar busy? Microsoft enhances search results with ambient noise from phones

Data-collecting sensors are all the rage in the tech industry right now. Microsoft Research is testing a new use for… Read More

Mar 10, 2013, 12:06 AM

Microsoft eyes Amazon, wants more ‘pure Silicon Valley startups’ on Azure

Microsoft is “clearly not as far ahead as Amazon” in convincing startups to use its cloud computing system, but the… Read More

Mar 8, 2013, 8:37 AM

How Microsoft went from leading to lagging, and how it’s trying to change

Earlier this week I was part of a small group of journalists and bloggers who spent the day questioning and… Read More

Mar 7, 2013, 10:30 AM

Microsoft wants new model for online privacy, says current one ‘can’t survive’

It’s inevitable that companies will collect an array of data about people and their online activities. So rather than trying… Read More

Mar 6, 2013, 1:54 PM

Microsoft is making Kinect more perceptive, using big data and machine learning

One of the projects on display at the Microsoft Research TechFest event in Redmond this week is an upcoming addition… Read More

Mar 6, 2013, 10:19 AM

Nokia begs Instagram for a Windows Phone app, creates #2InstaWithLove

Nokia is getting creative to show how badly it wants an Instagram app for Windows Phones. “We’ve been listening, and we… Read More

Mar 6, 2013, 9:51 AM

HTC’s February revenue nosedives 44%, lowest in 3 years

HTC continues to struggle and took a serious hit in February, recording their lowest revenue in three years. Sales fell… Read More

Mar 6, 2013, 6:27 AM

The price of Microsoft’s European browser screwup: $732M

The European Commission this morning fined Microsoft 561 million euros, approximately $732 million, for neglecting to include a required “browser ballot”… Read More

Mar 5, 2013, 1:25 PM

Xbox chief: Main rivals are Nintendo, Sony, Apple and Google … but not Valve

The competitive landscape for Microsoft’s Xbox console is expanding to include Apple and Google, but the company’s top game and… Read More

Mar 5, 2013, 1:13 PM

How this Tokyo retailer used Kinect to turn mannequins into marionettes

You can always count on Japan for the weirdest inventions out there. The latest head-scratcher involves Microsoft’s Kinect and a… Read More

Mar 5, 2013, 9:46 AM

Microsoft’s new vision: A big screen on every wall, and a Kinect sensor in every bezel

Was that the next generation of Kinect in the bezel of the standup screen at Microsoft’s Envisioning Center? Trying to get… Read More

Mar 5, 2013, 6:58 AM

Will this go viral? Microsoft ‘Viral Search’ uses big data for social insights

What makes a tweet go viral online? And what does a viral trend actually look like? Those are a couple… Read More

Mar 4, 2013, 8:04 PM

Microsoft acquires cloud startup MetricsHub, taking hatchling under its wing

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than two months after graduating from the Microsoft Windows Azure accelerator, Bellevue-based MetricsHub has… Read More

Mar 4, 2013, 5:36 PM

The Google bashing continues: Microsoft says ‘Scroogled’ campaign will go on

“Scroogling” isn’t quite over yet. Contrary to earlier reports today that Microsoft ended its “Scroogled” ad campaign against Google, the… Read More

Mar 4, 2013, 1:36 PM

Poll: Should Microsoft buy Barnes & Noble?

Barnes & Noble is struggling. Could Microsoft, which invested $300 million in the company’s Nook digital reader business last year,… Read More

Mar 4, 2013, 10:16 AM

Microsoft ending anti-Google ‘Scroogled’ ad campaign

It looks like Microsoft is done bashing Google — for now. Late last week, Microsoft’s Director of Search Stefan Weitz… Read More

Mar 4, 2013, 9:55 AM

Microsoft’s technical strategy chief: ‘More experimentation’ between research, products

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho00x7ZvDLw Can Microsoft turn its big ideas into true product innovations in the marketplace? That’s one of the central questions… Read More