Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 190 of 225

Microsoft’s Skype pokes at Facebook, Twitter in ad campaign

Skype partners with Facebook on video calling, and Skype’s parent company, Microsoft, is a minority owner of Facebook. But all’s fair… Read More

Nokia Lumia 900: Hands-on video and early impressions

The release of Nokia’s Lumia 900 this weekend is a critical moment for Microsoft’s Windows Phone in its attempt to come… Read More

Reviews: ‘Kinect Star Wars’ falls flat, even before Han Solo starts dancing

The long-awaited Kinect Star Wars game for Xbox 360 is out today, and the reviewers are united in their opinion… Read More

PS3 gets Amazon video app, Xbox 360 still stuck with workaround, for now

If you own a PlayStation 3 and subscribe to Amazon Prime, it’s your lucky day. Amazon today announced the availability… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold sees ‘vindication’ in growing importance of tech patents

The featured speaker this morning at the Pacific Science Center‘s Foundations of Science breakfast in Seattle was Nathan Myhrvold, the… Read More

GeekWire Meetup Preview: Catching up with former Microsoft design director Bill Flora

Microsoft and great design haven’t exactly been synonymous over the years, but the company has been changing its reputation with the… Read More

Majority of U.S. smartphone users now own an Android device

For the first time in history, a majority of smartphone users in the U.S. now own an Android device, according… Read More

Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever

Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease,… Read More

As new H-1B season begins, Microsoft renews call to loosen rules on foreign workers

It’s the start of an annual tradition, and the revival of a perennial debate. Today is the first day for… Read More

Video: Microsoft Kinect powers augmented-reality magic show

Maybe Microsoft Kinect could replace Microsoft PowerPoint someday? That was my first thought while watching this TED presentation by high-tech magician… Read More

Analyst: Microsoft wrestling with ARM as Windows 8 nears

Veteran Wall Street analyst Rick Sherlund of Nomura Research has issued a report following a series of investor meetings last… Read More

Researchers: Internet Explorer declines have ‘stabilized’

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser has seen its overall market share decline from upwards of 90 percent a decade ago… Read More

Microsoft picks 11 startups for new Kinect Accelerator

When Microsoft introduced its new Kinect Accelerator startup program a few months ago, the company anticipated receiving about 150 applications. But… Read More

Nokia’s ‘Smartphone Beta Test’ teaser sets stage for Lumia 900 launch

A mysterious site that emerged over the weekend actually isn’t so mysterious upon closer investigation. It’s a marketing campaign, apparently… Read More

Bungie closes its Halo database with an epic infographic

Just how big are the Halo video games? Well, we’ve spent a combined 235,182 years playing them online — enough time… Read More

Polls: How many Apple and Microsoft products do you have in your house?

Earlier this week, CNBC published a survey which found that half of American households now own at least one Apple… Read More

Microsoft cautions ‘Piracy Lurks Everywhere’

To help inform small businesses of the risk of being lured by counterfeit software offerings, Microsoft has launched a worldwide… Read More

Tech Moves: Medio taps Microsoft vet as chief architect; Zooppa, PATH, etc.

Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better… Read More

Half of U.S. households own at least one Apple device

Now, here’s a really good reason why Apple boasts a market value of $575 billion. Half of U.S. households now… Read More

Microsoft planning Star Wars parties for new Kinect game

Is there anything geekier than this? Microsoft is planning a series of parties at its retail stores on the night… Read More

‘Mooning’ Microsoft: Box skips software giant in release of new mobile cloud service

Was there something traumatic about Aaron Levie’s childhood that caused an intense dislike of Microsoft? The founder of the Silicon… Read More

How a high-five changed this Microsoft GM’s life, and helped a bunch of kids

Bill Hilf spends his days as a general manager for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform, based in Redmond. He… Read More

Microsoft embraces, extends open source mapping

File this under “the enemy of my enemy is my friend:” Microsoft is reportedly lending “big support and big dollars”… Read More

Cash-rich tech giants have $300 billion to spend: Is a new wave of tech M&A coming?

Could we see a new wave of technology-related mergers and acquisitions? Well, that’s one possible scenario given that the top… Read More

Xbox used more for movies, music than online games

If you needed any more evidence that Microsoft views the Xbox 360 as a key weapon in its fight to… Read More

Microsoft’s goal to ‘disrupt,’ not just take down, Zeus botnet

It’s a seemingly unending battle. Botnets get put up by bad guys, taken down by good guys and are replaced… Read More

No Comcast bandwidth cap for on-demand Xbox video

Comcast is releasing a few more details on its promised Xfinity TV for Xbox 360 service with what might be… Read More

AT&T confirms April 8th release of HTC Titan II and Lumia 900

Microsoft’s efforts to catch back up in mobile will begin in earnest on April 8th when two new 4G LTE… Read More

Microsoft and Nokia pump $23M into AppCampus to spur mobile app development

Just last week, Microsoft announced that developers have created some 70,000 applications for the Windows Phone. Not a bad start,… Read More