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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

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

‘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

Podcast

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

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

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

Podcast

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

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

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

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

Facebook making desktop software for Mac, Windows with new Seattle-based team

In this era of browser apps and mobile devices, here’s some news that cuts against the grain. A new Facebook… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kelly Franznick, Blink CEO

Kelly Franznick is the type of person who can spend his vacation working on a stop-motion animation projects, and his… Read More

BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties

Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More

Why Microsoft is still fighting a $1.3 billion European fine from last decade

It was like a blast from the past this morning to wake up to news that Microsoft was back in… Read More

Video: ‘Halo’ Spartan blows up mini-fridge to pitch Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5OdiXIV1M Microsoft’s Windows team seems to have figured out a thing or two about marketing to college students. Not only… Read More

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to… Read More

Microsoft customer satisfaction hits new high as Windows 7 takes hold

Have we finally witnessed the death of the Blue Screen of Death? OK, so that’s still a bit of a reach,… Read More

Google’s Brin to Windows users: Stop torturing yourselves

One of Google’s big selling points for its new Chromebooks is the promise of a seamless updating mechanism that keeps… Read More

Google Chromebook: Is this your next mobile machine?

Google today unveiled the first wave of “Chromebooks” — notebook computers running the company’s Chrome OS, to be available starting… Read More

Video: Microsoft builds PC store inside Windows 7 skeptic’s house

So this is what it takes to get somebody to upgrade a PC these days? Earlier today we told you… Read More

New Windows ads will battle old nemesis: Yesterday’s PCs

Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” campaign was originally launched as a counterpoint to Apple, embracing the phrase from the Mac maker’s… Read More

Microsoft profits climb as Xbox, Office trump PC slump

Microsoft’s Xbox, Office and Windows Server businesses helped the company overcome a down quarter for the Windows PC market. The… Read More

So this is how it ends: Microsoft antitrust pact winding down, quietly

It might be hard to remember just how big Microsoft’s U.S. antitrust case was in its day, in part because… Read More

Windows 7 hits 350 million: Putting the data in perspective

Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s… Read More

Ubuntu 11.04: The desktop Linux you’ve been waiting for?

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu version of Linux, is making a new push for a larger slice of the… Read More

Apple bucks trend with 28% increase in Mac unit sales

Apple is just out with its quarterly earnings, reporting record revenues of $24.67 billion and profits of nearly $6 billion.… Read More

Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck

It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond… Read More

Inside Microsoft’s Kinect SDK

Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference… Read More

Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store?

Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More

Windows app store Allmyapps reaches 100,000 users

Allmyapps, an online app store for Windows PC reminiscent of Apple’s App Store for Mac, this morning announced that it… Read More