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HP shedding PC business: Why Microsoft should buy it

Bloomberg News caused a big stir in the tech world today with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to spin off… Read More

Chart: The PC isn’t dead, it’s just another one of our devices

Today is the 30th anniversary of the unveiling of the IBM PC, one of the landmark moments of the digital revolution. This… Read More

Spoof: What happens when Microsoft’s top execs carpool to work together

Following the leak of Microsoft’s recent “Gmail Man” spoof, a new video from the company’s annual sales confab has surfaced… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘BlueHat Prize’: $250k to focus hackers on security defense

Microsoft today announced a new program called the “BlueHat Prize,” offering a total of more than $250,000 in cash and… Read More

Verizon’s first 4G LTE netbook is a Windows 7 machine, sorta

Verizon Wireless this week is releasing its first netbook computer running on its 4G LTE network, and it represents a… Read More

Too much tablet? Apple, Microsoft at risk of overdose

The changes in Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion, released Wednesday, start with the way people get the updated operating… Read More

Apple, Microsoft and the divergence of the personal computer market

Apple is set to report earnings Tuesday afternoon, amid expectations of a blowout quarter. While much of the focus will… Read More

WSJ: Amazon plans Android tablet, touch-screen Kindle

Amazon has been rumored for months to be working on its own multipurpose tablet computer, but this report by the… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘coherent’ UI for PCs, phones, everything else

Microsoft’s default Windows 8 interface, unveiled last month, was clearly modeled in part after the Xbox Live and Windows Phone… Read More

Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles this morning, Microsoft updated its Windows 7 sales figures — saying that… Read More

Microsoft Bing innovates on iPad with ‘Lasso’ quick search

Microsoft today is releasing an update for its well-received Bing app for Apple’s iPad, with a new feature designed to… Read More

Windows Phone loads up on apps, still waiting on users

Good news and still-not-very-good news for Microsoft’s Windows Phone today … Good: The Windows Phone Marketplace now boasts more than… Read More

Microsoft issues new Internet Explorer 10 tech preview

Microsoft today released a new preview of the technology going into Internet Explorer 10, the next version of its web… Read More

Microsoft updates SkyDrive, trying to stand out in a cloud

Microsoft plans to roll out a series of updates to its free Windows Live SkyDrive service later today, trying to give the… Read More

Kinect on Windows: Results from a 1-day coding marathon

In conjunction with its release of a Kinect software development kit for Windows 7 today, Microsoft held a “Code Camp”… Read More

Q&A: Details on Microsoft’s Kinect release for Windows

Microsoft this morning officially brought its Kinect motion sensor to Windows PCs — releasing a software development kit that will… Read More

Kinect goes legit on Windows as Microsoft releases software development kit

Ready to use your voice and hands to control your PC? How about a virtual orchestra or a flying quadrocopter?… Read More

Google Chromebooks: The past or future of computing?

Google’s Chromebook computers are making their debut in stores this week to mixed reviews. With instant-on startup, all-day battery life… Read More

Ballmer asks for speech advice, gets career advice

Microsoft this week invited its industry partners to suggest topics they’d like to hear CEO Steve Ballmer cover during his… Read More

A Microsoft-branded tablet? Report says company is considering it

Microsoft is thinking about coming out with its own brand of tablet computer to better compete with the iPad, according… Read More

IDC cuts PC forecast as iPad, Kindle and friends take toll

The IDC market research firm today reduced its forecast for PC shipments for 2011 to 4.2 percent, from its previous… Read More

‘Pranksters’ or ‘vandals’? Windows logo installed on future Apple store

This video, taken outside an Apple store under construction in Hamburg, Germany, is spreading around the Internet like wildfire this… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Groupon’s IPO, Microsoft’s Windows 8, and Twitter’s place in the world

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Groupon’s IPO, the unveiling of Microsoft’s next Windows version, and the end… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo video is a low-budget hit

Microsoft’s video this week unveiling the new Windows 8 interface was remarkable not just for the content but for the… Read More

Future of comic books? Microsoft, Disney release ‘Tron: Legacy’ in HTML5

Comic books made the leap to the online world long ago, but Microsoft and Disney are aiming to take things… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Microsoft’s ‘Ben the PC Guy’ on the new ‘Golden Age of PC Design’

Sure, Windows 8 looks snazzy with that tile interface and stuff, but what are you going to buy in the… Read More

Windows 8: A radical change for Windows, and a huge gamble for Microsoft

Early versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, developed a decade ago, had the feel of the Windows PC desktop. The theory… Read More

Windows 8, the first real glimpse: Tiles on a tablet

[Updated below] Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer new start screen optimized for tablet/slate computers that uses a tile interface reminiscent… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

Facebook making desktop software for Mac, Windows with new Seattle-based team

In this era of browser apps and mobile devices, here’s some news that cuts against the grain. A new Facebook… Read More