Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 147 of 225

Microsoft brags that Xbox One has the ‘best games,’ but so do the other consoles

Microsoft is getting the week started with a new Xbox One promo trailer out today and the video’s title is… Read More

RIP, Microsoft Tag: Barcode service will end in 2015

Microsoft’s Tag barcode service will shut down in two years, according to a notice issued by the company this morning.… Read More

Microsoft: Zune holdouts will still get 10 free monthly songs

Good news for all of you remaining Zune users — all three of you. Microsoft is making a series of… Read More

Microsoft: Google’s objections to YouTube on Windows Phone ‘nothing more than excuses’

Microsoft just released an extensive response to Google’s decision to block a newly developed YouTube app for Windows Phone —… Read More

Google blocks Microsoft’s new YouTube app for Windows Phone — the one that was supposedly OK

[Follow-up: Microsoft: Google’s objections to YouTube app on Windows Phone are ‘nothing more than excuses’] Two days after we reported that… Read More

Microsoft: Skype to come bundled with Windows 8.1

When you install Windows 8.1, you’ll now have the opportunity to video call your friends and let them know that… Read More

Any surface a touch screen: Ubi Interactive launches Kinect app for Windows 8

Hook up a Kinect sensor to Windows 8, project the screen onto a wall or any other surface, and interact… Read More

Chart: Tablets settle in at 60% of PC market … for now

The chart above feels like the calm before the storm, that storm being the holiday shopping season. For a while… Read More

Does Seattle have an obligation to support Windows Phone?

It’s common these days for mobile app developers to start with iPhone and Android, and get to Windows Phone later… Read More

Xbox One launch delayed to 2014 in 8 European markets

At E3 this year, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would be available in 21 markets worldwide starting in November.… Read More

Gartner: Smartphone sales beat feature phones, rising tide lifts Samsung, Microsoft

For the first time in the history of cell phones, smartphone sales have exceeded those of feature phones, according to… Read More

Microsoft: Windows 8.1 will be released on Oct. 18

Microsoft just announced the official release date for Windows 8.1, saying it will make the finished version of the operating… Read More

YouTube returns to Microsoft’s Windows Phone, with Google’s support this time

Microsoft released a new version of its YouTube app for Windows Phone this afternoon, three months after Google objected to… Read More

Another reversal: Microsoft says Kinect won’t be necessary for operation of Xbox One

Well, it’s time for yet another Xbox One about-face. Microsoft had been saying that the Kinect sensor that comes bundled… Read More

Remembering Bill Henningsgaard, former Microsoft exec who died in plane crash

Authorities in Connecticut confirmed over the weekend that former Microsoft executive Bill Henningsgaard, 54, was killed Friday in a plane crash… Read More

BlackBerry’s ‘strategic alternatives’ include possible sale of company … but who’s buying?

BlackBerry said this morning that a special committee of its board will “explore strategic alternatives,” and anyone who has heard… Read More

Microsoft: You’ll be able to share an Xbox Live Gold subscription on Xbox One

Following yesterday’s revelations that some of the much-touted new features of the Xbox One will only be accessible to paid… Read More

Acer says it’s going to make more Chromebooks, dialing back on Windows

Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer reported a surprising second quarter loss caused by slowing revenue and increased costs, with quarterly revenue… Read More

3D printing: “MakerBot Experience” rolling out to more Microsoft stores

Following an announcement at Microsoft’s BUILD conference earlier this summer that Windows 8.1 will support 3D printing, Brooklyn-based MakerBot Industries… Read More

Xbox One: Skype, Game DVR and OneGuide will require paid Xbox Live subscription

Watch out, Microsoft: People are getting upset about the Xbox One again. Some of the new console’s most heavily touted… Read More

Windows Phone global shipments up 77%, extending lead over BlackBerry

New stats released today by IDC show shipments of Windows Phone reaching 8.7 million units in the second quarter —… Read More

Microsoft SkyDrive courts former Apple MobileMe users with bonus cloud storage

Former users of Apple’s MobileMe service have started receiving messages reminding them that the complimentary 20GB of storage that they… Read More

Microsoft launches new visual app builder for Windows Phone

Building a Windows Phone app is about to become a drag-and-drop affair, thanks to a new tool created by Microsoft.… Read More

Nokia ad: Every day, more crappy photos taken on iPhone than any other device

Nokia released a new ad today touting the camera on the Nokia Lumia 925 Windows Phone by comparing it to… Read More

Bing for Windows Phone gets new coat of paint, functionality

Windows Phone users rejoice: Microsoft is re-vamping the Bing search functionality for Windows Phone in the image of its work… Read More

Kinect-controlled water fountains? Student contest focuses on fluid interfaces

Next stop, the Bellagio? Computer-controlled water fountains are giving an unusual twist to an annual student contest that explores new… Read More

Obama veto in Apple’s Samsung dispute throws a new twist into patent cases

What will the White House do? That’s the question that many big companies will be asking themselves after the Obama… Read More

Microsoft cuts Surface Pro by $100, now starts at $799

Microsoft, trying to recover from lackluster sales of its Surface tablets, today cut the price of its Surface Pro by… Read More

An open letter to Jeff Bezos; Microsoft Surface revenues; and more top posts from July

Amazon and Microsoft news dominated the pages of GeekWire during the month of July. In fact, every single one of… Read More

Patent filing is latest evidence of Microsoft’s augmented-reality ambitions

It’s easy to brush off patent applications from big companies as pie-in-the-sky ideas that will never see the light of… Read More