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Geek of the Week: Kelly Franznick, Blink CEO

Kelly Franznick is the type of person who can spend his vacation working on a stop-motion animation projects, and his… Read More

BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties

Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More

Why Microsoft is still fighting a $1.3 billion European fine from last decade

It was like a blast from the past this morning to wake up to news that Microsoft was back in… Read More

Video: ‘Halo’ Spartan blows up mini-fridge to pitch Windows

Microsoft’s Windows team seems to have figured out a thing or two about marketing to college students. Not only is… Read More

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to… Read More

Microsoft customer satisfaction hits new high as Windows 7 takes hold

Have we finally witnessed the death of the Blue Screen of Death? OK, so that’s still a bit of a reach,… Read More

Google’s Brin to Windows users: Stop torturing yourselves

One of Google’s big selling points for its new Chromebooks is the promise of a seamless updating mechanism that keeps… Read More

Google Chromebook: Is this your next mobile machine?

Google today unveiled the first wave of “Chromebooks” — notebook computers running the company’s Chrome OS, to be available starting… Read More

Video: Microsoft builds PC store inside Windows 7 skeptic’s house

So this is what it takes to get somebody to upgrade a PC these days? Earlier today we told you… Read More

New Windows ads will battle old nemesis: Yesterday’s PCs

Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” campaign was originally launched as a counterpoint to Apple, embracing the phrase from the Mac maker’s… Read More

Microsoft profits climb as Xbox, Office trump PC slump

Microsoft’s Xbox, Office and Windows Server businesses helped the company overcome a down quarter for the Windows PC market. The… Read More

So this is how it ends: Microsoft antitrust pact winding down, quietly

It might be hard to remember just how big Microsoft’s U.S. antitrust case was in its day, in part because… Read More

Windows 7 hits 350 million: Putting the data in perspective

Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s… Read More

Ubuntu 11.04: The desktop Linux you’ve been waiting for?

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu version of Linux, is making a new push for a larger slice of the… Read More

Apple bucks trend with 28% increase in Mac unit sales

Apple is just out with its quarterly earnings, reporting record revenues of $24.67 billion and profits of nearly $6 billion.… Read More

Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck

It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond… Read More

Inside Microsoft’s Kinect SDK

Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference… Read More

Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store?

Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More

Windows app store Allmyapps reaches 100,000 users

Allmyapps, an online app store for Windows PC reminiscent of Apple’s App Store for Mac, this morning announced that it… Read More

How Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8

A new leak gives the first real glimpse of what to expect in a special Windows 8 interface for tablets,… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone

Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and… Read More

Microsoft’s IE team: Pay no attention to those stats … yet

Much has been made over the past week about Firefox 4 trouncing Internet Explorer 9 in total downloads since the… Read More

A Microsoft IT tool for iOS, Android and Symbian? Yep

You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Microsoft’s “System Center Configuration Manager,” which IT departments can use to… Read More

Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video

Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More

WebOS planned for every HP PC, alongside Windows

Hewlett-Packard, continuing to raise questions about Microsoft’s long-term dominance in PC operating systems, plans to ship its webOS operating system… Read More