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A strong holiday season has made Windows 10 the fastest-growing operating system in Windows history, Microsoft says.
Expect more of the same in 2016.
The company has brought things together but more work is needed in 2016 to win over the hearts, minds and wallets of developers and consumers.
Something has to be next year’s hoverboard.
The Next Big Thing didn’t show up this year.
Here. There. Everywhere.Get it? Hohohohoho Merry Christmas.
The mobile location/check-in company used to be worth $650 million. Now it’s going to be worth around $250 million.
Skype buys a would-be rival that never got traction.
While Microsoft pursues the same “premium product at a premium price” strategy as Apple, Amazon goes the other way.
At the HoloLens Experience Showcase, developers can try a handful of mixed reality toys and tools.
A $75 million commitment to computer education efforts.
One of Seattle’s leading venture firms aims to demonstrate the region’s prowess by plotting the region’s tech constellations.
Microsoft Azure will be the default public cloud option on all HPE servers.
You could buy a car in mixed reality, but should you?
The PC laptop market is starting to fragment.
The former head of Microsoft’s Dynamics business will be heading up the analytics business at Salesforce.
The company plans a “state-of-the-art facility” to respond to threats in real time.
The company confirms the move but won’t say if Project Astoria has been delayed or dumped entirely.
Making multiple devices in a home (or work environment) work together seamlessly is far from magical.
Gundotra, who left Google in April 2014, is best known as the head of its ill-fated Google+ social networking effort.
Facebook is pushing deep into virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux will be the “preferred” version of Linux for Azure customers.
Microsoft has had to conclude that the idea of owning the hardware, software and services is the only way to control its destiny.
Microsoft has thrown in everything but the kitchen sink to make its case in wearables.
Microsoft has gone from a few hundred thousand iOS and Android users running Outlook to 30 million a month.
Another perfect storm of market conditions is brewing for a second wave of virtual personal assistants and conversational interfaces, exceeding the first in both intelligence and pervasiveness.
Corporate VP Kirk Koenigsbauer, who has been in charge of the Office apps, will move to a role in the corporate marketing organization.
A ribbon-cutting on Fifth Avenue.
Microsoft, Amazon and Google earnings all beat Wall Street expectations.
Why does a Chinese e-commerce giant want a piece of a “cinematic reality” company?
The company also quietly laid off around 1,000 employees this week, while search business finally reached profitability.
In a joint interview with The Verge, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore said that the company is incorporating more payments technology into its operating system.
Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore tells Re/code he is hopeful that its new operating system will boost sales, but agreed it is too soon to declare victory.
This should be entertaining.
The industry is looking to combat sluggish sales with an ad campaign highlighting how different computers are today from years’ past.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris praised the tech industry for their help in a conference earlier today.
In an industry first, the leading PC makers are joining Intel and Microsoft in a unified campaign, dubbed “PC Does What?”
Following Monday’s launch of the Surface Book, Microsoft has been trying to show its love for PC makers by showing up at events around the globe.
Big changes are on the horizon in mobile.