Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 225 of 234

Jun 8, 2011, 11:27 AM

Fortune: Microsoft should buy Netflix and make Reed Hastings co-CEO with Ballmer

There’s been plenty of chatter in recent weeks about why Steve Ballmer should be replaced as CEO. He missed mobile.… Read More

Jun 8, 2011, 7:56 AM

A Microsoft-branded tablet? Report says company is considering it

Microsoft is thinking about coming out with its own brand of tablet computer to better compete with the iPad, according… Read More

Jun 7, 2011, 3:20 PM

Microsoft buys Prodiance to bring more security to spreadsheets

Venture capitalists expressed hope that Microsoft would pick up the M&A pace following its planned $8.5 billion buy of Skype.… Read More

Jun 7, 2011, 9:00 AM

Congratulations, Microsoft: Your sales of HTC Androids are booming

HTC’s revenues more than doubled in May, according to financial results released by the mobile phone maker this morning, to… Read More

Jun 7, 2011, 7:46 AM

Microsoft HealthVault enables Facebook login, vows not to tell friends about your test results

Microsoft’s HealthVault personal online repository for health data and electronic medical records has enabled Facebook authentication as an optional method… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 10:23 PM

Microsoft, Facebook support AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition

[Updated with text of letter below.] Microsoft and Facebook are among eight technology companies that filed a letter tonight in… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 4:55 PM

Facebook, Amazon staffers are the most stressed: Google, Microsoft are the best paid

Amazon.com may allow dogs in the office and offer bus passes to staffers, but it is still among the most… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 4:42 PM

IDC cuts PC forecast as iPad, Kindle and friends take toll

The IDC market research firm today reduced its forecast for PC shipments for 2011 to 4.2 percent, from its previous… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 12:28 PM

Xbox Live plans cloud storage, Facebook friends game matching

Looks like Microsoft’s Xbox Live didn’t have room in the company’s E3 media event this morning for all of its… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 11:24 AM

Microsoft says Halo 4 signals a new trilogy for Xbox 360

Microsoft this morning confirmed plans to extend the blockbuster Halo franchise for Xbox 360 with a new game, Halo 4,… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 10:39 AM

Xbox plans Live TV, YouTube, Bing search, hints at DVR

Microsoft this morning confirmed plans to offer a live television service to users of its Xbox Live service, and hinted… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 9:22 AM

Video: Kinect goes Star Wars

One of the E3 leaks from Microsoft’s website this morning was a new Star Wars game for the Kinect motion-sensor,… Read More

Jun 6, 2011, 9:11 AM

Halo 4 in development, and other E3 leaks from Microsoft’s own site

Halo 4 is “on the way.” That’s the (inadvertently) official word from Microsoft this morning. The company isn’t taking the stage… Read More

Jun 5, 2011, 9:55 PM

Apple, Xbox set to battle for attention of tech world

It’s hard to remember a week with so many big tech companies staging so many potentially big announcements. It kicks… Read More

Jun 5, 2011, 10:52 AM

‘Seattle feels a lot like Bangalore,’ and other comments of the week

Fashion advice for Bill Gates. A new operating system that could rival … Vista. And how Seattle compares to Bangalore,… Read More

Jun 4, 2011, 5:12 PM

‘Pranksters’ or ‘vandals’? Windows logo installed on future Apple store

This video, taken outside an Apple store under construction in Hamburg, Germany, is spreading around the Internet like wildfire this… Read More

Jun 4, 2011, 9:55 AM

GeekWire Podcast: Groupon’s IPO, Microsoft’s Windows 8, and Twitter’s place in the world

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Groupon’s IPO, the unveiling of Microsoft’s next Windows version, and the end… Read More

Jun 3, 2011, 2:50 PM

Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo video is a low-budget hit

Microsoft’s video this week unveiling the new Windows 8 interface was remarkable not just for the content but for the… Read More

Jun 3, 2011, 10:00 AM

Future of comic books? Microsoft, Disney release ‘Tron: Legacy’ in HTML5

Comic books made the leap to the online world long ago, but Microsoft and Disney are aiming to take things… Read More

Jun 3, 2011, 8:28 AM

Platform or not, Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming

Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by… Read More

Jun 2, 2011, 10:35 PM

Video: Bill Gates wrote the checks, and Melinda drove the vision for foundation campus

Bill Gates may have written the checks for his foundation’s beautiful new $500 million campus in the heart of Seattle.… Read More

Jun 2, 2011, 3:15 PM

Rewind: Microsoft’s ‘Ben the PC Guy’ on the new ‘Golden Age of PC Design’

Sure, Windows 8 looks snazzy with that tile interface and stuff, but what are you going to buy in the… Read More

Jun 2, 2011, 8:44 AM

WSJ report: A wave of Silicon Valley giants arrive on Seattle’s shores

Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and… Read More

Jun 2, 2011, 7:59 AM

Windows 8: A radical change for Windows, and a huge gamble for Microsoft

Early versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, developed a decade ago, had the feel of the Windows PC desktop. The theory… Read More

Jun 2, 2011, 1:59 AM

Skype, Sparkbuy, Steve Ballmer at USC and other top stories for May

At a Belltown coffee shop yesterday, I spotted a guy at a nearby table reading GeekWire. I got a bit… Read More

Jun 1, 2011, 4:20 PM

Windows 8, the first real glimpse: Tiles on a tablet

[Updated below] Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer new start screen optimized for tablet/slate computers that uses a tile interface reminiscent… Read More

Jun 1, 2011, 9:42 AM

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on his Microsoft board position, Steve Ballmer dustup

Following Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s digs at Microsoft last night, the Redmond company continued to serve as a subplot at… Read More

Jun 1, 2011, 8:54 AM

Last words from a Sidekick 3: ‘iPhone can suck it’

Last night, as the clock ticked down toward the shutdown of the online service for legacy T-Mobile Sidekick devices, I… Read More

May 31, 2011, 10:53 PM

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

May 31, 2011, 3:44 PM

Chart: Steve Ballmer’s approval rating plummets among Microsoft employees

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn created a stir last week when he suggested that it was time for Steve… Read More