May 6, 2019, 4:22 PM This is the Apollo 11 HoloLens demo that Microsoft hoped to show at Build The opening demo at Microsoft’s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the… Read More
May 6, 2019, 2:59 PM Together at last: Microsoft will ship a Linux kernel with Windows There are countless things about the state of technology in 2019 that would startle a visitor from 2009, but this… Read More
May 6, 2019, 2:12 PM Microsoft teams up with Starbucks on predictive drive-thru ordering and bean-to-cup blockchain Starbucks is quickly becoming as much a tech company as a coffee company, but that hasn’t stopped its leadership from… Read More
May 6, 2019, 1:20 PM Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling… Read More
May 6, 2019, 10:54 AM Trust, privacy, and then what? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens Build developer conference Over the decades, Microsoft’s developer conferences have provided the first glimpse of some of the company’s most important products, from… Read More
May 6, 2019, 10:37 AM Augmented reality Minecraft? Microsoft teases Pokémon Go-style adaptation of popular game A new augmented reality, mobile version of the popular Minecraft game looks to be on the way. Microsoft ended the… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft’s Internet Explorer returns as a ‘mode’ inside Edge browser Internet Explorer is making a comeback, more than three years after Microsoft retired the legacy browser. Microsoft is adding a… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft fell behind in the digital assistant race, and now it is trying to change the conversation Microsoft is embarking on what it calls the “next generation of intelligent assistant technologies” today, looking to move forward to… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft unveils new election security tools in continued battle against hackers As the 2020 U.S. Presidential election approaches, Microsoft is getting ready to release several new tools to shore up security… Read More
May 3, 2019, 10:23 AM Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More
May 2, 2019, 2:48 PM Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking… Read More
May 2, 2019, 2:45 PM ‘Microsoft Solitaire,’ which debuted on Windows 3.0 in 1990, inducted into Video Game Hall of Fame “Microsoft Solitaire,” a computer game played by more than 500 million people over the past 29 years, has been inducted… Read More
May 2, 2019, 2:00 PM Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new… Read More
May 2, 2019, 2:00 PM Microsoft unveils $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition ‘mixed reality’ headset Microsoft wants to bring more developers into its ecosystem to build “mixed reality” apps, and Microsoft today announced a Development… Read More
May 2, 2019, 10:56 AM Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Celebrating $1 trillion market cap would be ‘the beginning of the end’ Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has returned to the tech elite, punctuated by the company hitting a financial milestone of a… Read More
Apr 30, 2019, 9:13 AM Microsoft equips veterans in rehab with accessible Xbox controllers Microsoft is making gaming more accessible for patients at 22 Veterans Affairs rehab centers by supplying them with its Xbox… Read More
Apr 29, 2019, 11:47 AM Microsoft and VMware unveil new cloud service that lets VMware customers run their apps on Azure Years after VMware cut a ground-breaking cloud deal with Amazon Web Services that helped make the hybrid cloud a reality,… Read More
Apr 29, 2019, 10:42 AM Tax hike on Amazon and Microsoft to fund higher ed in Washington state passes legislature Update May 21: Gov. Jay Inslee signed the education bill into law. I just had the honor of signing HB… Read More
Apr 26, 2019, 8:25 AM Slack calls out Microsoft as its ‘primary competitor’ in IPO filing in nod to rival’s collaboration tools Now we know why Slack made such a ruckus when Microsoft entered its territory two years ago with the introduction… Read More
Apr 25, 2019, 3:30 AM Amal and George Clooney partner with Microsoft on app to improve criminal justice oversight worldwide Courtrooms around the world can be dangerous places for marginalized communities, journalists, and human rights advocates. Often justice systems are… Read More
Apr 24, 2019, 3:40 PM Microsoft briefly becomes a $1 trillion company following strong earnings report Update, April 30: Microsoft today became the second U.S. company in history after Apple to close with a market capitalization above… Read More
Apr 24, 2019, 2:27 PM Microsoft’s hardware division continues momentum, posts revenue jump of 21% to $1.3B Microsoft’s Surface division is on a roll. After posting a staggering 39 percent revenue growth over the holiday season and… Read More
Apr 24, 2019, 1:25 PM Azure revenue remains a mystery, but cloud services continue to drive Microsoft forward One of these days, Microsoft will decide that it needs to break out the amount of revenue it is recording… Read More
Apr 24, 2019, 1:16 PM Microsoft beats Wall Street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division Microsoft rebounded from a rare revenue miss, sailing past Wall Street expectations for its third quarter, powered by the tech… Read More
Apr 24, 2019, 9:24 AM Microsoft earnings preview: What to watch as tech giant shares latest financial update Microsoft is locked in a three-way race for the title of the nation’s most-valuable company with Amazon and Apple, with… Read More
Apr 23, 2019, 10:35 AM Microsoft Paint will remain part of Windows 10, as 34-year-old favorite lives on For years it’s felt like Microsoft Paint’s days were numbered, but the 34-year-old sentimental favorite keeps hanging on. The simple… Read More
Apr 23, 2019, 10:00 AM How multiyear contracts with big business are changing the economics of the cloud As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on… Read More
