Microsoft Archive
Archives for August 2014
Can the platform make the programming language cool and app development accessible?
Plus, pneumatic fish tubes and more bad optics for Uber.
Show of hands for those who want a “deeply personal, universally human way of operating?”
The basic phone is part of a continued business in that area, Microsoft VP Jo Harlow tells Re/code.
Also this week in Re/code, real-life Transformers and a chip that works like the brain.
Survey finds Microsoft’s offerings gaining favor with CIOs.
Johnson’s responsibilities will include relationships with partners, key accounts and device makers.
Plus, the bloodletting ends at BlackBerry, Xiaomi supplants Samsung as China’s leading smartphone vendor and Google’s summer camp.
What the?
If Samsung and other Android phone makers don’t have to pay Microsoft royalties on Android, Windows Phone could become an even tougher sell.
Plus, a Square meal of Caviar, and Elon Musk worries about Skynet.
How Facebook is trying get even more ad dollars, what the world’s most famous muckraker is up to and what Web privacy really means.
“That’s so-and-so. He’s a great engineer. He doesn’t like to wear clothes.”
How “a documentary about the failure to find a good documentary” turned into a meditation on history.
Samsung stopped paying its patent bills late last year, following Microsoft’s announcement of the Nokia acquisition.