Microsoft made mistakes in early mobile strategy: Bill Gates
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said he was not satisfied with the company’s pace of innovation over the last few years, and that it had...
Tag : microsoft
Microsoft launches Office 2013 software suite
Microsoft has launched a new version of its Office software suite. Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook have been redesigned to work better with touch-screen-controlled computers. They...
Microsoft’s Skype pressured to offer privacy reports
Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is. Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 43...
Microsoft ups Surface production, to sell in more stores
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp has stepped up manufacturing of the Surface tablet, its new device designed to counter Apple Inc’s iPad, and will introduce it to...
Facebook in talks to buy Microsoft ad technology: reports
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc is in negotiations with Microsoft Corp about acquiring advertising technology that could allow the social network displays ads on other websites, broadly expanding its advertising business,...
Microsoft vs. Google trial over patents finishes up
(Reuters) – A Google expert witness testified on Tuesday that Microsoft will make roughly $94 billion in revenue through 2017 from its Xbox game console...
Analysis: New Microsoft mantra after Sinofsky – teamwork
(Reuters) – The sudden departure of powerful Windows boss Steven Sinofsky this week is the first step in a plan by CEO Steve Ballmer to...
Microsoft and Google financials could surface at trial
(Reuters) – Microsoft and Google’s Motorola Mobility unit are set to square off on Tuesday at a trial with strategic implications for the smartphone patent...
Microsoft’s Windows unit head, once a possible CEO, exits
(Reuters) – The executive most widely tipped to be the next chief executive of Microsoft Corp has left the world’s largest software maker barely two...