Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 180 of 234

Nov 30, 2012, 9:39 AM

New Microsoft game studio in Vancouver wants to build the next Halo

Microsoft is officially opening a new game studio in Canada and expectations are off the charts. Located in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Black Tusk… Read More

Nov 30, 2012, 7:51 AM

Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Yep, this feels like a tough sell

When Microsoft’s Surface RT was released a little more than a month ago, one of the things we heard from… Read More

Nov 29, 2012, 9:26 AM

Microsoft exec: Seattle needs to avoid Detroit’s fate

Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith delivered a pep talk followed by an alarm bell during a presentation this morning to… Read More

Nov 29, 2012, 7:26 AM

Stats: Windows consumer sales down 21% in U.S. since Windows 8 launch

Unit sales of Windows PCs and tablets to consumers in the U.S. are down 21 percent since the Windows 8… Read More

Nov 29, 2012, 6:28 AM

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team pokes fun at haters with ‘comment troll’ video

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team is back with an updated version of its “Browser You Love(d) To Hate” online campaign, including… Read More

Nov 28, 2012, 2:54 PM

Ballmer: Sometimes Microsoft will just have to make its own hardware

The headlines coming out of Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting this morning focused on Steve Ballmer’s comment that Microsoft and its… Read More

Nov 28, 2012, 8:53 AM

Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is addressing the company’s annual shareholders meeting right now in Bellevue, Wash. He started by talking… Read More

Nov 28, 2012, 8:38 AM

Microsoft’s ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ campaign warns users about Google shopping ads

Microsoft is attacking Google’s new shopping advertising model and they’ve even created a new word and website to prove it.… Read More

Nov 28, 2012, 6:24 AM

Longtime Microsoft analyst reduces estimates, cites ‘awkward’ Windows 8 launch

Rick Sherlund, the veteran Wall Street analyst who has covered Microsoft since it went public, this morning reduced his earnings… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 4:43 PM

Windows 8: Microsoft gives first glimpse of usage patterns

How are new users interacting with Windows 8 and using its new features? It’s a key question given all the… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 1:53 PM

Here’s more evidence that Microsoft and Amazon are planning their own smartphones

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was grilled by both Charlie Rose and Jimmy Fallon last week about the potential of an… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 1:26 PM

Microsoft: 40M Windows 8 licenses sold in first month

This just in from Microsoft: The company has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the Oct. 26 launch of… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 12:02 PM

Xbox 360 Black Friday stats: 750,000 consoles, 72 million online hours

We wrote yesterday about Nintendo selling more than 400,000 Wii U consoles last week. While it isn’t new and doesn’t have… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 10:03 AM

Breaking down borders: Bing translator app now available for Windows Phone 8

Whether or not Microsoft is poised to lead the way in the tablet, video game and search engine arenas is… Read More

Nov 27, 2012, 1:39 AM

Microsoft’s data proves it: We’re obsessed with iPhone

Tim Cook might want to send a thank you card to Steve Ballmer this morning. It should read like this:… Read More

Nov 26, 2012, 4:05 PM

Across the pond: Microsoft may open stores in Europe

Big Ben, The Eiffel Tower, and now, Microsoft Stores. Sources familiar with Microsoft told the Financial Times that the company… Read More

Nov 26, 2012, 11:07 AM

Microsoft vet to lead new HBO engineering office in Seattle

HBO has hired a longtime Microsoft manager, Drew Angeloff, as the vice president in charge of a new software development office… Read More

Nov 26, 2012, 7:54 AM

Windows 8 is a big hit … on budget PCs at Walmart

How did Microsoft’s new Windows 8 fare on its first big holiday shopping weekend? Here’s an encouraging picture, submitted by… Read More

Nov 25, 2012, 8:26 AM

Barclays Bank makes a big buy, purchases 8,500 iPads

These are the type of deals that must take the wind out of the sails of Microsoft a bit. A… Read More

Nov 24, 2012, 9:05 PM

Comments of the Week: Oprah ‘loves’ the Surface; Hastings’ Microsoft analysis; and more

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “[Microsoft has] many great assets and many great challenges.… Read More

Nov 24, 2012, 8:10 AM

Verizon shackles Surface: Microsoft’s new tablet deserves better than this

During a trip to a Verizon Wireless store in Northern California earlier this week, I noticed a Windows 8 tablet… Read More

Nov 22, 2012, 3:29 PM

Augmented-reality glasses for Xbox? Patent filing provides new evidence

The notion of Microsoft releasing its own augmented reality glasses for a future Xbox isn’t new, having surfaced over the… Read More

Nov 22, 2012, 7:31 AM

Sorry Microsoft, but my mom isn’t buying Windows Phone

I spent yesterday afternoon immersed in a modern-day holiday tradition — helping my parents shop for their first smartphones. Three… Read More

Nov 21, 2012, 12:01 PM

Microsoft reportedly set to debut Xbox TV device next year

Microsoft isn’t quite done turning the Xbox 360 into an entertainment hub for the living room. Tom Warren over at… Read More

Nov 21, 2012, 7:36 AM

Santa, please bring me an iPad: 48% of kids want Apple’s tablet

Yesterday, my three-year-old son looked at a review copy of a Surface tablet sitting on my desk and asked this… Read More

Nov 20, 2012, 11:08 AM

Microsoft marketing wizards tap Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf to tout new Windows Phones

OK, this may be entering an entirely new realm of geekdom. The marketing wizards at Microsoft have struck a deal… Read More

Nov 20, 2012, 10:12 AM

Outgoing board member Reed Hastings on the hurdles facing Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is stepping down from the Microsoft board later this month at the company’s annual meeting. And… Read More

Nov 20, 2012, 6:57 AM

Microsoft Research hires Carnegie Mellon leader as head of international labs

Microsoft Research today named noted computer scientist Jeannette Wing, the two-time head of Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department, to the… Read More

Nov 19, 2012, 4:51 PM

Leaked videos show focus groups panning the Microsoft Kin: ‘It’s frustrating’

Microsoft is currently trying to make inroads with its new tablet computer — taking on the likes of Apple’s iPad… Read More

Nov 19, 2012, 2:41 PM

Turning poop into power: Microsoft building innovative data center to test clean power resource strategies

Think about human waste inside of a toilet. Yes, I know, gross. Now, think about power for a data center.… Read More