For a company that has it’s operating system on over 80 percent of the computers in the world, you have to wonder why their phone selection is so pitiful.  Really, try to find a Windows Phone 7 device made by more than two companies and you are out of luck in the US.  If you [...]

Microsoft’s market share in the mobile arena has been on the decline this year. With a shrinking piece of the mobile pie, many feared that the platform would lose development support eventually. However, a new study indicates that its quite the opposite. As reported by Tech News World, a recent study conducted by Appcelerator and [...]

While Apple is constantly updating it’s software to make jailbreaking harder, Microsoft has sanctioned Chevron WP7’s ability to jail break it’s smartphone operating system.  Of course for your $9 it is a limited jailbreak. Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s approach to jailbreaking is a middle ground between Apple’s rigid control and Android’s “free for all” [...]

Earlier today Microsoft unveiled a brand new phone, the Samsung Focus Flash during an event in New York City. Apparently this is all part of Microsoft’s new direction to plunge into the “cheap” smartphone market. Google’s Android has a head start on everyone with its platform available across a wide range of affordable devices. This [...]

Microsoft canceled the Courier tablet, its rival to the iPad, in order not to compromise its core products. And that’s the problem with Microsoft in a nutshell. In September 2009 the existence of a new Microsoft tablet leaked onto the Web. March 2010 brought more details of a product shaping up nicely. But by May [...]

The war of words between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is continuing, even though Jobs has passed on. Thankfully Gates isn’t the type to speak ill of the dead. Just a couple of days ago we noted some of what Steve Jobs had said about Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer in the interviews with [...]

In a roundabout way Microsoft was the making of Steve Jobs. So you’d think he’d have had kinder words to say about the company before he sadly shuffled off this mortal coil. The late Steve Jobs really wasn’t a fan of Microsoft, its founder and chairman Bill Gates, or its CEO Steve Ballmer. As passages [...]

Mango is Microsoft’s code name for the latest update to Windows Phone 7.  Handsets are beginning to hit the market.  Since Windows Phone 7 handsets must be competitive, they have to have two cameras, one for videocalls.  The first Mango handsets will have Tango available as the standard videocalling app, not newly acquired Skype. Forbes [...]

It was 20 10 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play Windows XP was released to the public. And there’s still no sign of it curling up into a ball in the corner and dying. Unfortunately. On Oct. 25 a new Windows operating system was shipped to stores. The company immediately [...]

Microsoft is once again toying with the idea of acquiring Yahoo, though it would likely be a different type of deal than the one proposed in 2008. And a lot cheaper as well. In 2008 Microsoft came very close to buying Yahoo, with a $45 billion offer for the company being turned down. At the [...]

Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon have developed a wearable technology that will turn just about any surface into a touch screen.  That means that you can use any body part, home surface, car surface or consenting friend as a touch screen.  Not bad.  Except for looking dorky, it’s a great idea.  Anything or anyone [...]

Getting other hardware manufacturers to pay royalties for using Google’s platforms has been a recurring theme with Microsoft.   The company is literally making millions off Google’s products without lifting a finger. Near the beginning of the month news broke of a patent deal where Samsung agreed to pay Microsoft royalty fees for every Android handset [...]

Microsoft’s ability to talk itself and its products up is sometimes unrivaled. If not a little shady, and sometime underhanded. So it is with a new site called Your Browser Matters, which is owned and run by Microsoft. Not that the company makes a big show of that, of course, hiding the name at the [...]

Its been a crazy week with all kinds of mishaps on Microsoft’s official site regarding the Zune. Earlier reports seemed to indicate that Microsoft was killing off the Zune, which was promptly refuted shortly after by Microsoft. As reported last week, a notice popped up on the Zune’s official support site that indicated that Microsoft [...]

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype is now assured, with both the FTC and the EC accepting that the deal is not anti-competitive. According to Reuters antitrust authorities within the EC have approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, which comes with a price tag of $8.5 billion. This represents the final clearance Microsoft required to make the deal [...]