Microsoft
A Google veteran heads to Redmond.
Microsoft got a great deal on LinkedIn. Here’s why.
The longtime tech investor and entrepreneur is an insider’s insider in Silicon Valley.
The media-loving exec has options, ya know!
LinkedIn’s stock was struggling, among other things.
But results will get rolled up and hidden away .
Satya Nadella and Jeff Weiner are using all the correct buzzwords like “scale” and “cloud.”
CEO Satya Nadella says the acquisition will be “key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes.”
She’s in your Xbox, but she wants to be in your bedroom — and kitchen, and every other room in your house, too.
It’s part of Redmond’s revised mobile strategy as it moves away from Windows-based phones.
It’ll disappear from app stores soon and stop working altogether at the end of August.
Including the first computer he ever owned.
Pretty, but also pretty empty.
New copies of the software after that point will cost $119.
The automaker is going from customer to part-owner.
The Redmond software giant says its position on the GOP convention hasn’t changed.
A PC is still a PC, with all the good and bad that entails. And it seems that many consumers have simply moved on.
Microsoft has pulled out of two groups seeking antitrust action over search, but the software maker says it isn’t taking a position for or against the current actions by the EU.
The company said its commercial cloud, by contrast, is growing and is now at a $10 billion annual run rate.
Some 17,000 jobs were cut in the first quarter alone.
It’s important to stay grounded as we evaluate chat bots as a potential successor to today’s app model.
The company says secrecy demands have become the norm when the federal government demands customer data.
Expect some vigorous new platform battles that will keep our bot interactions from achieving the kind of awe-inspiring wizardry of which they are potentially capable.
But is it a true detente or just a blip?
Six years after the iPad’s debut, what’s the future for tablets?
Lili Cheng, who lead the company’s social interaction research, is now in charge of the bold new move into bots.
While the developer conference was mostly business, there was fun to be had, if you knew where to look.
An “anniversary update” this summer will include improvements to Cortana as well as the ability to log into apps and websites using fingerprints and other biometrics.
Also: Companies are using more cloud apps.
For the second time, economic pressure from Salesforce and others forces a state to walk back anti-LGBT legislation.
Big bucks = big productivity?
The company says it won’t bring its Twitter chatbot back until it is sure Tay can represent the best, rather than the worst, of humans’ online behavior.
The software giant once tried to buy it, so it might help others do so.
Racism, sexism and xenophobia are all too easily learned.
Things that only kids who used AIM will understand.
Satoshi Nakajima debuts Swipe at Silicon Valley Comic Con and explains how he got Microsoft sued.
Company responds swiftly to backlash over sexist event.
Availability depends on the carriers.
Often, passions are sparked by fuzzy terminology.