The demise of the Zune has been rumored for months.  It has been discussed on Microsoft Answers and on prominent electronics news websites since March of this year.  A notice was published on the Zune support website yesterday that seems to be gone today.  It looks as if Microsoft found a way to get Zune [...]

Recently, news broke of a patent deal with Microsoft and Samsung where the CE giant has agreed to pay the software company an undisclosed amount for each Android phone sold. According to some experts this may be a desperation move on Microsoft’s part. Microsoft is waging a patent war against Google’s mobile Android platform. The [...]

Is Steve Ballmer standing down as CEO of Microsoft? It doesn’t look like it, at least any time soon. Instead, he’s just received a healthy pay rise and considerable bonus. Some people regard Microsoft as a technology dinosaur, a gigantic beast which once ruled its domain but has now been sidelined thanks to younger, fitter [...]

I’m not even sure why Microsoft is bothering with its own mobile OS at this point. After all, it’s making more than enough money from Android. Screw Windows Phone 7. Microsoft owns some patents which could be considered infringed upon by the Android operating system. However, unlike Apple, which also has patents which could be [...]

Another day, another round of Ballmer bashing at Microsoft. Is Steve on his way out of the company? Steve Ballmer has never been the most popular guy outside of Microsoft. Many people dislike his brash attitude and the way he talks about Microsoft’s competitors. But the last few years have seen things get worse, much, [...]

A one-stop shop full of all the daily deals on offer at any given moment? Yes please. Bing me the goodies as Bing Deals with the hard work. Daily deals seemed to crop up all of a sudden from out of nowhere to become big business. The trend for offering consumers a one-off deal is [...]

Currently, Windows phone 7 has approximately 1.6 percent of the smartphone market.  You can get smaller than that but no one wants to.  As it stands, Windows Phone 7 is well behind Android and iOS in market share, but it looks as if that might be changing. According to MocoNews.net, Android currently holds 43.4 percent [...]

Microsoft isn’t a fan of social networks. Or at least isn’t a fan of its employees using social networks to reveal details of forthcoming products. Firms have had to react to the prevalence of social networking sites and to the way in which their employees interact with the public on them. The bigger the firm, [...]

There is some big news coming out of Microsoft UK today as allegations of corruption in the branch are now being reported. According to the report, a female exec was allegedly passed up for a promotion because of her gender. As reported by the Telegraph, Natalie Ayres, former GM of Microsoft’s Small-Medium Enterprise and Partners [...]

While much has been made of Windows 8′s Metro-style tiles interface, there is another aspect to the new OS that has not been mentioned.  Windows 8 and Windows Server 8 will be “optimized for new hardware form factors and cloud services.” According to Ars Technica, the company is “reimagining itself.”  Ballmer’s statement implies that Microsoft [...]

Windows 8 has been unveiled in all its glory. With its new operating system, Microsoft is drawing a line in the sand and looking only to the future. You will, by now, likely have seen the Windows 8 unveiled by Microsoft at the 2011 BUILD developers conference. If not then check out this Life Hacker [...]

The recent outage Microsoft suffered with its Hotmail and Office 365 suite has raised some concerns across the industry. The concern stems from the fact that many have been pushing the Cloud as a way to avoid such outages. Microsoft’s Office 365 and SkyDrive became unavailable late last month for a few hours when one [...]

Windows 8, making its first extensive public appearance at BUILD, will be for consumers rather than businesses. So enterprise customers can continue on with their Windows 7 upgrade plans. This week sees Microsoft hold its annual BUILD conference, and that means one way or another we’re going to get to see a lot more of [...]

Microsoft is set to unveil the first Windows 8 tablet at next week’s BUILD conference. And it’s a tablet being built by Samsung. Microsoft has been surprisingly open about Windows 8, its next operating system, up to this point. We’ve seen the new user interface, and various screenshots of improvements made to integral parts of [...]

What can you say when the largest software company in the world expresses its ongoing fondness for one of the major social media players.  Well, you could say “Get a room, you two!” which is what one twitter follower did say. Microsoft’s search engine BING and social media service Twitter announced their ongoing partnership through [...]