Computers
Reminder: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Ends July 28
If you haven’t yet upgraded to Windows 10 — whether willingly or unwillingly — you might want to make the leap soon. Microsoft reminded...
Microsoft
Computers
Acer Taking On Surface & MacBook As It Bolsters Computer Biz, Taps New Markets
Acer will build its core computing business with new product that include its first VR-ready gaming computers and products that compete more aggressively with...
news
Exclusive: What’s In Store For Microsoft
Last fall Microsoft opened its first-ever flagship store, a five-story monument to technology located on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. Five months after the opening-day hoopla,...
news
Select Microsoft, GameStop Stores To Demo HTC Vive VR Headset
HTC teamed up with Microsoft and GameStop to let people experience its $799 Vive VR headset in stores in the U.S. and Canada before...
Industry
Build 2016: Microsoft Sees Conversation As The New UI, Bots As Apps
Microsoft used its Build 2016 developers conference as a platform to announce a free summertime update for Windows 10, expanded Cortana capabilities, and plans...
news
Lowe’s Tests Microsoft HoloLens VR Headset For Kitchen Remodeling
Home-improvement chain Lowe’s launched a pilot program to test the use of Microsoft’s HoloLens holographic VR headset to help shoppers remodel their kitchens. Lowe’s...
news
Microsoft HoloLens VR Headset A Step Closer To Consumer Reality
Microsoftsaid it’s a step closer to bringing its untetheredHoloLensholographic VR headset to the consumer market with the March 30 shipment of theHoloLens Development Edition...
news
Microsoft, NFL Look At Watching Football Through VR HoloLens
Football fans watching games through Microsoft’s HoloLens virtual-reality headset would get a room-wide view, watch a holographic replay from any angle on their coffee...
Financial
Microsoft Surface Sales Rebound With Surface Pro 4, Surface Book
Microsoft’s Surface sales rebounded in the company’s fiscal 2016 second quarter ending December, thanks in part to the launch of the Surface Pro 4...
Industry
Microsoft Wants To Make You Do Stuff So You’ll Get Out Of Bed
Snooze button? Ha! Microsoft is showing off one of its latest Garage projects, designed to make waking up … easier? More fun? We’re not...
news
Microsoft Finally Gets Tablets Right, Report Contends
This is the year that “Microsoft and its partner OEMs finally got tablets right,” Strategy Analytics contends. The research and consulting company pointed to...
news
Microsoft Seen Developing Surface-Brand Smartphone
Microsoft appears poised to put its Surface brand on a premium flagship smartphone sometime in the second half of 2016, extending the Surface franchise...
Blogs
AdWeek Names Most Viral Ads Of The Year
AdWeek has released its annual list of the “Most Viral Ads Of The Year,” and four technology-related spots made the top 20, including an...
news
AT&T Offering 18.4-Inch Samsung View With DirecTV Channels
AT&T will become the first carrier to offer an LTE-equipped version of Samsung’s 18.4-inch 1080p Galaxy View Android tablet, enabling on-the-go viewing of more...
news
App Growth For Windows Phones Hits New Roadblock?
Has Microsoft’s Windows Bridge For Android turned into a bridge too far? Microsoft is behind schedule in offering tools that would let app developers...
news
A Look Inside Microsoft’s New Flagship Store
Microsoft pulled out all the stops for yesterday’s grand opening of its six-year-old retail chain’s first-ever flagship store. The 22,369-square-foot showplace occupies five floors...
news
Microsoft’s CE Products Get Almost As Much Respect As Apple’s
Consumer perceptions of Microsoft’s consumer electronics products are on the upswing, and the company “appears ripe to disrupt Apple’s hold across markets” thanks to...
news
Microsoft Stores Ready To Party To Launch Surface Book, Surface Pro 4
More than 110 Microsoft stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada will celebrate the Oct. 26 launch of the Surface Book notebook and Surface Pro 4 tablet...
Financial
Microsoft Surface Sales Sink In Latest Quarter
Microsoft Surface sales took a major hit last quarter as consumer wait for the latest and greatest, Microsoft claimed. Surface tablet sales fell 35.1...
Keeping Current
Microsoft’s First Big Anti-Apple Tv Ads Were Just Revealed
PC makers are eager for consumers to jump-start a much-needed refresh cycle. One reason the PC market is declining is that consumers are satisfied...
news
Microsoft Launches Surface Pro 4, Surface Book, Lumia Phones, Band 2
Not only does Microsoft believe it can replace your laptop with the Surface Pro 4, but it also wants to “redefine everything you expect...
news
Microsoft On Marketing Phones: “We’ve Massively Retrenched”
“We’ve massively retrenched,” Microsoft EVP/CMO Chris Capossela said about Microsoft’s smartphone-hardware plans during the recent Citi Global Tech Conference. He reiterated Microsoft’s plans to...
news
New Windows Phones On Way From Microsoft, Alcatel One Touch?
The selection of Windows-based smartphones has been rather thin in the U.S., but Microsoft is planning two new flagship models for an October launch,...
CES-2016
Digital Smackdown: Siri Vs. Cortana Vs. M
San Francisco last month was playing the big game of “Who is it?” as everyone tried to figure out who had taken over the...
news
Tablet Screen Sizes Grow As iPad Pro Beckons
Bigger is better in many things, including tablet sizes, at least among a growing number of North American consumers. North American shipments of tablets...
news
Microsoft Cortana Gets A Voice Through Android
Cortana, Microsoft’s voice-powered digital assistant, is moving from Windows-based phones and PCs to the Android platform as part of Microsoft’s efforts to expand beyond...
Blogs
Windows 10 More Of A Six
Apologies in advance to my new friends at Microsoft, Intel, HP, Asus, Toshiba and Lenovo, but Win10 has won mixed reviews at the Wolf...
Computers
5 Things To Know About Today’s Windows 10 Release
Redmond, Wash. — If you’ve been on the edge of your seat until the release of Microsoft’s latest OS, congrats! Your lucky day has...
Financial
Microsoft Says It Got The Surface Right, And It Shows In Sales
Redmond, Wash. — Dollar sales of Microsoft’s Surface tablets more than doubled in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter and grew 65 percent for the...
news
1st LTE-Equipped Surface 3 Tablet Is On The Way
Dallas — Microsoft’s Surface 3 will be available with cellular LTE data for the first time with a Friday launch by AT&T. Consumers will...
news
Microsoft Slashing Phone Business Acquired From Nokia
Redmond, Wash. – Microsoft is slashing its cellphone business as part of a larger restructuring that will cut up to 7,800 positions from the...
news
Microsoft Reveals Valve Partnership For VR
San Francisco — Microsoft is apparently doubling down on its commitment to virtual reality gaming by revealing a partnership with Valve VR to “make...
Accessories
Oculus Reveals Consumer Headset, Microsoft Partnership
San Francisco — Oculus is aiming squarely at the computer gaming market with a consumer version of its Rift virtual-reality headset. The headset, lighter...
news
10 Things We Learned About Windows 10
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft sketched a bold roadmap for its upcoming Windows 10 launch and laid out a welcome mat to developers at its...
news
Microsoft Sees Surface, Lumia Gains In Fiscal Q3
Redmond, Wash. – Microsoft’s Surface tablets and Lumia smartphones are gaining traction, but Xbox lost steam in the company’s fiscal 2015 third quarter ending...
news
Microsoft Scales Down With Surface 3
Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft’s latest laptop-replacing tablet is essentially a scaled-down version of its last one, but the new model will also be offered...
Blogs
Microsoft Is Leaking
This has not been a good month for Microsoft, or so it would seem. Since International CES, the notoriously tight-lipped company has become a...
Accessories
Trident Case Debuts Cyclops For Surface Pro 3
Ontario Calif. — Trident Case has expanded its ruggedized Cyclops line to include the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet. Molded from TPE and bio-enhanced...
news
B&N, Microsoft Cut Nook Ties
New York — Barnes & Noble has taken steps to further restructure and potentially sell off its ailing Nook tablet, e-reader and digital-book business....
news
Nokia Brand Reenters CE Market With Tablet
Espoo, Finland — Nokia reentered the CE market, although indirectly, with an Android tablet following the sale this year of its mobile business to...
news
Microsoft Enters Wearables Market
Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft began offering its first smart band through its stores and website at $199, beating Apple to the market and further...
Computers
Office 365 Subs Get Unlimited OneCloud
Redmond, Wash. – Customers who subscribe to Microsoft’s Office 365 software will soon discover their OneDrive Cloud storage has been upgraded to unlimited space...