Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 195 of 225

Microsoft woos disgruntled Google users in full-page newspaper ads — here’s the first one

Concerned about changes in Google’s search and privacy practices? Microsoft is waiting with open arms. That’s the message from the… Read More

Microsoft wins round vs. Barnes & Noble in Android case

Dealing a blow to Barnes & Noble’s defense vs. Microsoft in a closely watched patent case, an International Trade Commission administrative… Read More

Amazon employment still rising, now more than 56,000

Amazon.com has been hiring employees at a rapid pace over the last two years, and the job numbers in the… Read More

Hello, Windows 7? Browsium comes up with new way to run old web apps in IE8, IE9

For all of the advances in computer operating systems and web browsers over the last decade, walking into some companies… Read More

Caradigm? Microsoft and GE signal potential name for health-care initiatives

Microsoft and General Electric, which last month announced plans to form a new health-care technology company, have filed a series… Read More

Ask.com hopes to find the right answer in latest ad campaign

Here’s a key question for Ask.com: Can it find a way to compete against the likes of Google and Microsoft’s… Read More

Microsoft’s Facebook investment: Smartest deal Ballmer ever made?

It was a modest amount in the scheme of things — a $240 million investment by Microsoft in Facebook in… Read More

Microsoft launches secretive Office 15 preview, calls it ‘most ambitious undertaking yet’

Microsoft this morning launched a technical preview of the next generation of its Office programs — releasing the products to… Read More

TechStars perk: Free cloud services from Microsoft’s Windows Azure

Hook ’em while they’re young. That could very well be the code-name of a partnership announced today between Microsoft and… Read More

Battle vs. bogus email: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, others team up on new plan

An unlikely alliance of online giants, including rival email services Microsoft Hotmail and Google Gmail, announced this morning that they’re… Read More

Google vs. your wife, Apple’s piles of cash, rooting for Cozi, and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “In short, we’ll treat you as a… Read More

Kinect in your next laptop? Report says Microsoft working on it

Microsoft is already expanding its Kinect controller beyond the Xbox 360 to to Windows through the release of a commercial… Read More

The Greatest innovators of all time: Edison, Jobs, Zuckerberg (but no Bill Gates?)

Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010… Read More

Google shows some love for Microsoft’s Windows Phone

We’re still waiting for that official Google+ app for Windows Phone, but the Google Sync team just released some updates that… Read More

Nintendo’s rough patch continues with warning of larger loss

Mario has been in plenty of jams in his day, but never before quite like this. Nintendo, which was already… Read More

Video: Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs

The story of Bill Gates’ final visit with Steve Jobs was told in Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple co-founder,… Read More

Report: Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone will be $99

The Nokia Lumia 900 is being positioned as the flagship Windows Phone in the United States, but a new report… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Tablets will be bigger than PCs and why Kindle Fire isn’t hurting the iPad

Remember the report last month in which a financial analyst from Stern Agee cut his projections for iPad sales from… Read More

Big Fish hooks an Angry Bird: Wibe Wagemans to head game company’s mobile unit

Wibe Wagemans — who flew the coop at Angry Birds maker Rovio three months ago — just landed at Big Fish… Read More

Study: Personal devices now used for work in 88% of businesses

Nearly nine out of 10 companies are seeing employees use personal phones, tablets and computers at work — marking a… Read More

How the Microsoft search deal is reshaping Yahoo’s business, for better or worse

Yahoo today reported fourth-quarter profits that met Wall Street’s relatively modest expectations, but the numbers also show how Yahoo’s 2009… Read More

Microsoft Hotmail soars on iPhone and Android, now available on Kindle Fire

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from… Read More

Apple posts three Yahoos, two Googles and a Microsoft

How powerful is Apple becoming in the tech industry? Well, take a look at the impressive quarter that the iPhone… Read More

Microsoft back in hiring mode: Where it’s adding new jobs

Microsoft returned to modest employment growth in 2011, adding more employees around the world than at any point since making… Read More

R.I.P., Microsoft Points? Report says they’re going away

Microsoft will be phasing out the Microsoft Points virtual currency system used on Xbox Live and Zune by the end… Read More

Microsoft says botnet kingpin worked for antivirus vendor

Four months after dismantling the nasty Kelihos botnet, Microsoft says it has tracked down the central figure behind it– naming Russian… Read More

A new era: Google outspends Microsoft in federal lobbying

Google is speaking loud and clear in Washington D.C., nearly doubling its expenditures on federal lobbying efforts last year. Cnet’s… Read More

Estimate: Nokia ships more than 1M Windows Phones

Microsoft was mum about Windows Phone sales during its quarterly report last week, but we could get a clearer picture… Read More

Video: Cell phone interrupts solo, and violist plays along

How’s this for bringing harmony to the digital age? The video above, originally posted on YouTube over the summer, has… Read More

Gadgets galore: More than a quarter of Americans now own an e-reader or tablet computer

Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out… Read More