Microsoft


Watch out, Chromebooks.


Google’s answer to Microsoft Office has a long way to catch up to its massive competitor. Here’s a look at where G Suite came from.


Is the dominance of the “Gang of Five” healthy?


Benedict Evans preaches patience after a leaked photo shows clunky hardware.


The company has asked the government to look case by case at those with a “pressing need.”


Windows sales picked up a bit, too, allowing the company to beat sales and earnings estimates.


Kevin Scott, senior VP of engineering at LinkedIn, is joining its new parent company.


Qi Lu stepped down from Microsoft last year, citing health reasons.

Next year is happening. Here’s what to look forward to.




VR headsets and a return to ARM-based computers are on tap for next year.


It’s like Oprah’s book list, but for nerds.
Open AI will use thousands of Microsoft’s virtual machines.
The FTC has never challenged a merger based on the anticompetitive acquisition of data.


The new Microsoft is too much like the old one, the Salesforce CEO says.


The Republican was the CEO of Great Plains Software, which Microsoft bought in 2002.


The iPhone wasn’t the first phone to be subsidized. It was one of the first ones not to be.


The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern weighs in on Too Embarrassed to Ask.


In a month, America walked an additional 144 billion steps, a new Stanford/Microsoft study says.


Investors seem to think Satya Nadella’s transformation is working.


The company said its purchase of LinkedIn should close in the current quarter.

With a new owner, will the company become more than just a job network?

The company says AI will be a part of everything it does.

Rajesh Jha will assume many of Lu’s responsibilities.


The new Parallels 12 does the job well, even on aging hardware.

The company is buying Genee and shutting down the service.


I don’t think Microsoft or Intel are mad that Apple has finally agreed with them.

The Slingbox founder had been involved with Microsoft, Amazon and dozens of startups.

Juha Alakarhu helped develop Nokia’s 41-megapixel PureView camera technology.
It was shocking to discover that millennials are emotionally invested in a word processor.

The company has now shed nearly all of the Nokia mobile phone business that it acquired in April 2014.


Born in the company’s research labs, Microsoft Pix focuses on taking better pictures of people.

A LinkedIn board committee met earlier this month to discuss the email from Marc Benioff.

And investors cheer.


They’re pretty big and important.

The contract clause — personally struck by the CEO — is a “hairy” one for bidders.


Turner had served as head of Microsoft’s sales team for the past 11 years.

How the $26 billion deal went down.

Another bidder, likely Salesforce, was offering a few million dollars more, but its offer was made up of both stock and cash.

It bought Demandware instead