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Earlier today large multi-national corporation announced a potentially large sounding deal with Microsoft. While the rest of the S&P500 was rushing to sign cloud hosting deals with AWS this multi-national … Continue Reading Microsoft strikes big ambiguous deal with mediocre multi-national corporation
With the ever advancing pace of innovation these days Microsoft is throwing a bone to those of us who spend all day working in email. Some days responding to emails … Continue Reading New AI empowers Outlook users to write emails which seem important but convey no information whatsoever
Gaming has been a major focus for Microsoft in recent years. Phil Spencer has been representing the needs and wants of the gaming community to the most senior levels of … Continue Reading Xbox team plans to update their app every 12 hours to compete with Steam,
Software seeps into our lives every day. Much of that software, particularly at work, is made by Microsoft. Because of the nonstop and essential nature of working with software some … Continue Reading Elite team within Microsoft searching for beloved products to screw up
Task tracking apps are a dime a dozen and it seems like Microsoft has a dimes worth of them. One of the best task trackers was Wunderlist which Microsoft acquired … Continue Reading Microsoft To-Do pledges Wunderlist feature parity before heat death of the universe
With the accessibility focus at Microsoft continuing to accelerate the hardware division has begun experimenting with adding an ‘Any’ key to their keyboards. This key will work as most computer … Continue Reading New Microsoft keyboard includes physical ‘Any’ key
In hundreds if not thousands of conference rooms across the world there are Windows 7 PCs with a balloon popup asking the user to update Java. Usually the IT department … Continue Reading Concerned employee updates Java on conference room PC
Leveraging their expertise in avoiding anti-trust regulators, Microsoft is developing browser ballot apps for devices running Google and Apple operating systems. While Microsoft didn’t have final say in the design … Continue Reading Microsoft releases new browser ballot app for Android and iOS devices
Testing a product as large and sprawling as Windows 10 requires lots of testing and validation. A common tool used to verify if a change is positive is A/B testing. … Continue Reading Insider teams use new Ouiji board to select groups for A/B testing
As the current most valuable company in the world, Microsoft needs to make sure their investors are happy and their financial statements are strong. Having done such a good job … Continue Reading Microsoft CFO refuses to admit Windows makes Microsoft any money
Keeping computers up to date has always been a tricky problem. Users want their computers to work well from the beginning and not have to keep learning new ways to … Continue Reading Windows 10 installs updates every time you walk away from your PC
Engineers and designers in Redmond never stop working to capture the next wave of digital consumers. Microsoft stumbled initially when it came to their mobile platform, but they eventually had … Continue Reading New Mobile platform from Microsoft designed to be incompatible with every popular Microsoft product
Big tech companies are always looking for opportunities to grow the markets where their products are relevant. In a recent blog post Microsoft announced they will be launching a new … Continue Reading New Microsoft health service targets individuals with short term memory loss
We all get it. Work is work and some times it can be more effort than it is worth to learn new ways of doing the job you’ve had for … Continue Reading 52 year old Excel user not interested in learning new ways of saving the little time they have left
Before the days of Satya Nadella there was Steve Ballmer sitting in the seat of CEO. While many credit Satya Nadella with a monumental transition in culture and shifting business … Continue Reading Steve Ballmer working on studio album titled ‘Developers developers developers’
Surface devices have usually exemplified a modern Windows device. With tight integration between software and hardware the Surface Pro set the standard for what a 2-in-1 device could be. So … Continue Reading Rumor: In radical move Microsoft goes for USB-Mini on new Surface devices
