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Windows 8.1 Update Coming To Make It Easier For Mouse And Keyboard Users
Microsoft announced updates to Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 that will ship to users this spring. At a Microsoft reception at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday, Windows Phone product head...
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With Microsoft's Project Spark, Anyone Can Build A Video Game
Microsoft wants gamers build their own worlds—playable game worlds, in fact. Microsoft’s Project Spark, in open beta now for Windows 8 and the Xbox One, splices together a Minecraft-like sandbox with...
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Something To Like About Windows 8.1
Windows 8 has received enough negative press, some of it from me, to sink most operating systems. But having relied on Windows 8 for the last 18 months or so, what I have actually grown to like about...
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Surface Pro 3: Meet Microsoft's New Tablet Hybrid
At Microsoft, the PC never really dies. Like a hydra, it just grows more heads. Microsoft unveiled a new line of Surface Pro tablets on Tuesday designed to catch the eye of business users everywhere....
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With Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate The PC Market
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. In professional...
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Microsoft Surface Pro 3: A Great Tablet, But A So-So Laptop [Review]
Is the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 really the tablet that can replace your PC? That's the fundamental proposition on which Microsoft is pinning its entire Surface tablet line. Unfortunately, it's a dicey...
View ArticleSatya Nadella Proves That Microsoft Hasn't Changed At All
Microsoft wants you to work. Your life is just an afterthought.In an email to Microsoft employees today, CEO Satya Nadella outlined the core of the company’s strategy and vision and focus for the...
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The New "One Microsoft" Is About To Get Slimmer
Bloomberg News reported today that Microsoft is on the verge of what could be its biggest round of layoffs in history. New CEO Satya Nadella will reportedly cut jobs in marketing and engineering, as...
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A Replacement For Windows 8 May Be Nearing The "Threshold"
Some Windows 8 users who installed Microsoft's August update are once again seeing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death—the sign of a PC suffering a hard, unrecoverable crash. Microsoft says it's...
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Microsoft Will Show Us What's Replacing Windows 8 On September 30
The word is official: Microsoft will host an event in San Francisco on September 30 with news on "what's next for Windows"—a presentation all but certain to involve a good look at the long-awaited...
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Windows 8 Sales Slower Than Hoped
It's unexciting. Boring, really. That's what detractors of Microsoft's Windows 8 are saying. And those comments are showing up at the register, as retailers are also blaming slower than expected sales...
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Does Microsoft Still Matter? 2013 Will Decide
2013 will be a make-or-break year for Microsoft. Not so much from a financial standpoint, but for how the company is perceived.Traditionally, Microsoft has built itself around the PC, anchoring itself...
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Will Windows 8 Bring HTML5 To Enterprise Applications?
When Microsoft gave its first public preview of Windows 8 in 2011, the now-President of Windows Julie Larson-Green sent shockwaves through the Windows development world with just four words: "our new...
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Hey PC Industry: Stop Being So Damn Touchy-Feely
Intel's CES prediction that there will be $599 ultrabooks with touchscreens on the market by the end of 2013 promises to shake up the computer market, giving the finger to the notion that Tablets Will...
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Hands On With Microsoft's Impressive Surface Pro Tablet
For several months now, Microsoft's Surface RT has stood as an example of Microsoft's commitment to the concept of a Windows tablet.But in the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin shipping the...
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How To Turn Your Boring Old Laptop Into A Cool Touch Screen Machine
Sure, Windows 8 - Microsoft's new touchscreen operating system - will run just fine on PCs designed for Windows 7. But you won't be able to take advantage of the new touch capabilities the OS enables...
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The Real Problem With The Windows 8 User Interface - And It Isn't Touch
I just finished setting up my second Windows 8 computer. The first one, a Lenovo Yoga ultrabook/tablet, has a touchscreen. The second one, a Lenovo desktop tower, is hooked up to a standard Dell...
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Microsoft's Tami Reller's Secret Windows 8 Talking Points
When company executives give speeches, they carefully consider what they plan to say, and what they plan not to say. But that's only the beginning. They also have to prepare for the questions they're...
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Apple Is No Longer Easy: A Mac Mini Tale Of Woe
My decision to continue to stay on Apple’s Macintosh platform was not a particularly easy one. Three of our last four Macs have come to untimely deaths. Since 1984 dozens of Macs have lived on my desk...
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Like Intel, AMD Earnings Bit By Windows 8 Launch
Quarterly earnings reports from the two major chipmakers seem to indicate an unusual trough, rather than a peak, at about the time Microsoft launched Windows 8.For the fourth quarter of 2012, AMD...
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Microsoft Earnings Surprise: Windows Soars, While Office Struggles
Maybe Windows 8 isn't doing so badly after all.Overall, Microsoft profits fell 4% during the fourth calendar quarter, although revenue climbed. Revenue and profits within Microsoft's Windows division...
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Why Microsoft's Earnings Report Doesn't Reveal How Windows 8 Is Doing
Microsoft reported an unexpected boost in both profits and revenue within its Windows division for the fourth quarter, and yet little of that had to do with real demand for Windows 8.Well, possibly. Or...
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Home Virtualization & The New Power User
Windows 8 is not really my cup of tea. Mac OS X Mountain Lion is not what I hoped it would be. Google's Chrome operating system is not powerful enough for my purposes. What is a power user to do?Use...
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Is Skype Too Cool For Windows? New Video Messages Feature Says, Yes
On Friday, Microsoft launched a new Video Messages feature for Skype on the Mac, iOS and Android - but not Windows Phone or even Windows. Why? Because that's not how Skype rolls, a company spokesman...
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Microsoft's Mobile Ambition: Not Dead Yet
You can be forgiven for writing off Microsoft's mobile future. Given that Apple's operating income for its iPhone and iPad devices nearly surpasses Microsoft's total revenue, or that Google's Android...
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The 5 Big Questions Dell Will Have To Answer To Survive
On Tuesday, Dell faced Wall Street analysts for what could be the last time, as Michael Dell and a collection of investors prepare to take the company private. And though Dell Inc. reportedly exceeded...
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In The Security World, Android Is The New Windows
For decades, Microsoft Windows was the computer platform of choice — not just for the overhwelming majority of computer users, but also for a growing legion of malware creators. As the dominant...
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Microsoft Cuts Windows, Office Prices For Manufacturers - Is Windows 8 In...
Unable to light a fire under Windows 8, Microsoft is holding a fire sale instead.On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journalreported that Microsoft is offering significant additional discounts on both...
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PCs Are In Free Fall, But Windows 8 Shouldn't Get All The Blame
A Samsung exec has smacked around Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, calling it out as a big reason why the global PC industry's numbers are tanking. But is this really the smoking gun?"The global...
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Microsoft Is Basically Screwed In The Tablet Sector, IDC Says
Something is rotten in the state of Redmond.When Microsoft said that it would fork its new Windows 8 operating system in two to support both x86 and ARM-based chips, most pundits figured that was a...
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Prices Of Windows 8 Machines Are Falling. Wow, Demand Must Be Red Hot!
Notebook manufacturers appear to be lowering the prices of some Windows 8 notebooks and tablets, presumably pinched by underperforming Windows 8 demand or a slow selling season.Six out of the fourteen...
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Windows 8 Stabs The PC Market In The Gut
The PC market tanked in the first quarter, IDC reported. Shipments fell by a stunning 14% from a year earlier, almost twice what IDC had predicted and the worst performance since the firm began...
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Microsoft Profits Are Up, But Its Outlook For Windows May Be Down
Microsoft had some news today: It confirmed plans for smaller "touch devices" in coming months — i.e., the rumored Smaller Surface — and preemptively blamed a presumably darkening outlook for Windows...
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5 Ways Microsoft Could Fix The PC (and Windows 8)
Let's say the rumors are true, and that Microsoft does in fact bring back the Start button and a boot-to-desktop option to address longstanding user complaints. Can that fix what's ailing Windows 8?...
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Microsoft Is Trying To Sell Windows 8 To Enterprises, But Most Want Windows 7...
While Microsoft is obviously having trouble convincing consumers to adopt Windows 8, its message is that enterprises have been far more accepting. It turns out that might not be true, either.Last week,...
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Surface Will Top iPad? What The Heck Is Bill Gates Smoking?
In a CNBC interview interview aired on Monday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates suggests that Windows 8 and Microsoft's Surface tablet line could ultimately dethrone Apple's iPad from its global tablet...
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Microsoft Is Trying To Build - And Sell - A Kinder, Gentler Windows 8
Last weekend, the busiest spot at Fry's Electronics in Concord, Calif., was the notebook PC aisle, where eager salespeople buzzed about from customer to customer, eager to show off Windows 8. It...
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Windows Blue Will Be Free - And Called Windows 8.1
Microsoft's much-anticipated updated to Windows 8 will be free, will be called Windows 8.1 and will be out "later this year."All this news came on Tuesday when Tami Reller, the CMO and CFO of...
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Microsoft Is Backing Down From One Of Windows 8's Boldest Changes
The Start button is back.According to reports by Microsoft experts Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurrott, a forthcoming update to Windows 8 codenamed "Blue" will restore the familiar interface for navigating...
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Microsoft Confirms Return Of The Start Button
Microsoft today is confirming new design and interfaces changes to Windows 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue, today - changes that include the return of the missing Start menu button.(See also Microsoft Is...
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Sorry Intel: Your Next-Gen Haswell Chip Won't Rescue The PC Market
On Tuesday, Intel will formally launch Haswell, the fourth-generation Core processor the company says will help pull the PC industry out of its downward spiral.Unfortunately for PC makers, that won't...
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Windows 8 Is Failing to Beat Windows 7... And XP... And Even Vista!
With the release of yet more data showing Windows 8's dismal performance in the marketplace, we have to ask: Is Windows 8 failing to gain traction because it sucks, or because there's no demand for...
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Samsung's New Tablet Does Windows... And Android, Too
Ever wanted to use Android apps on a Windows 8 tablet? Well, whoever you are, now you can. Samsung today announced a new tablet called the ATIV Q, a dual-mode tablet/notebook that can run both Android...
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With Windows 8.1, Microsoft Steps Back Toward Operating System Relevance
Microsoft officially released a preview of Windows 8.1 this morning, coinciding with the opening of Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer to-do here in San Francisco.The preview release (get...
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Windows 8.1: It's Getting Better And Stronger — Just Not Fast Enough
It's no secret that Windows 8 has been an open wound for Microsoft. The question is: Can Microsoft fix its desktop-and-tablet operating system fast enough to stanch the bleeding?Fast is the key...
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Ballmer Announces Retirement As Microsoft CEO
Microsoft CEO Steve BallmerMicrosoft announced that CEO Steve Ballmer will retire from the software company within 12 months, pending the installment of a successor. Its shares opened almost 9% higher...
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Microsoft's Best Bet For Next CEO Currently Runs Another Giant Company
And all across the land, the people rejoice. The King, a resourceful if ineffective leader, has announced his abdication of the throne. His demise is imminent. The citizens of the land, in full huzzah,...
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What Microsoft Gets Wrong With Its New Surface Tablets
Microsoft has remade its Surface Tablets running Windows 8—the Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2. They are thinner, brighter, more powerful and faster. Speeds and feeds remains the name of the game at...
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Your Quick Guide To Stick Computers And What They’re Good For
Earlier this week, Google unveiled the Chromebit—a Chrome OS computer the size of a candy bar that plugs into a TV's HDMI port. This device, manufactured by Asus, is the latest in a line of “computers...
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5 Things Developers Should Know About Microsoft’s Open-Source iOS App-Porting...
Microsoft needs developers to build apps for its platform, and its play to get them—by helping coders port iOS and Android apps to Windows—just took a big step forward: On Thursday, the Redmond,...
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