December 2011
9 posts
A look ahead: 2012 is Microsoft's turning point →
2011 was in many ways a quiet (albeit thoroughly profitable) year for Microsoft. The company made big, important announcements—the Nokia partnership, the Windows 8 reveal—but neither…
Microsoft to make CES 2012 its last amid claims of... →
Claiming that the timing of the event meshes poorly with the company’s product launches, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw announced on…
Leadership change could herald Windows 8-powered... →
Andy Lees, head of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division for more than three years, has been moved by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer into a new “time-critical” role that somehow combines…
Azure price cuts, bigger databases, now with... →
Microsoft has rolled out a big update to its Azure cloud computing platform to make it cheaper, easier to manage, easier to scale, and easier to use with popular open source software.
Is Apple using patents to hurt open standards? →
Opera developer Haavard Moen has accused Apple of repeatedly using patents to undermine the development of Web standards and block their finalization. World Wide Web Consortium…
Microsoft brings the Genius Bar to the Web with... →
Microsoft has quietly launched a new service to help Windows and Office users get the most out of their PCs. Answer Desk is an online version of the Answer Desks found in…
Win 8 app store revealed: more money for devs,... →
In San Francisco today, Microsoft started talking up the Windows Store, the online marketplace for Metro-style Windows 8 applications. With Apple’s Mac App Store and iTunes Store…
Can a Windows Phone Web demo win over iPhone and... →
Keen to get consumers to take a look at Windows Phone, Microsoft has released a browser-based demo of its smartphone operating system for iPhone and Android users. The Web site…
With WP7 Mango available for all, Microsoft pushes... →
Windows Phone’s “Mango” update has been pushed out to the last few stragglers. The final handset to receive the update is the Dell Venue Pro—a quirky device with a portrait mode…
November 2011
12 posts
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4: Windows 7... →
Microsoft has released the fourth preview of Internet Explorer 10. As is the case with previous Platform Previews, the release is aimed at developers: the new features are…