by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago

Oh, Microsoft. When will you learn? Today, at All Things D: Dive into Mobile, Microsoft’s head of Windows Mobile, Terry Myerson, had some choice words for competitors. Among his statements were his musings on Android,…

by Bogdan Bele, 1 month ago

Credit: Intel/Flickr The decline of PC sales continues, with data from IDC showing the largest drop in shipments since data has been first tracked. The fact that Windows 8 has started shipping with PCs didn’t seem…

by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago

The hits just keep on coming. Just when you thought they’d give up, Microsoft has begun another round of ‘Scroogled’ jabs aimed squarely at Google. We’d hoped that those seemingly light-hearted April fools day shots…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 1 month ago

Credit: tiseb/Flickr FairSearch Europe, a coalition of companies that includes Microsoft, Nokia, and Oracle, has filed a formal complaint with the EU over Google’s alleged anti-competitive practices in the mobile market. Over the past couple…

by Bogdan Bele, 1 month ago

The Facebook Home Android launch has triggered a pretty strong reaction from Microsoft, in an article that executive Frank X. Shaw posted on the official company blog. Shaw says that Facebook’s event has made him…

by Andrew Grush, 1 month ago

Earlier this week, it was reported that Baidu would be following in Google Glass’ footsteps with the Baidu Eye. While the story turned out to largely be an April Fool’s joke, analyst Brian White of…

by Brendan Lynch, 1 month ago

Credit: cutenessareej/flickr April Fool’s day is perhaps one of the most loved (and confusing) days of the year. Throughout the day, you have all sorts of people and companies joining in on the fun. It…

by David Gonzales, 1 month ago

When Microsoft Lync for Android was first released back in 2011, it was still stuck in the 2010 era of user-interface design. As you can imagine, it looks severely outdated now when compared with Microsoft’s…

by Mike Stenger, 2 months ago

Google-owned Motorola Mobility went after Microsoft over a patent involving the Xbox, and administrative law judge David P. Shaw has ruled in Microsoft’s favor. U.S. Patent Number 6,069,896 describes a technology that allows devices to…

by Ankit Banerjee, 2 months ago

We last heard about a possible Microsoft Surface phone around the time the Surface tablet was released, but there was no indication at the time that this smartphone would ever see the light of day….

by Brad Ward, 2 months ago

A post put up by FOSS Patents’ Mueller claims Google and Motorola are on the verge of losing a Microsoft led patent lawsuit that could cause a lot of issues in the country. If Google loses this…

by Joe Hindy, 2 months ago

Most of us have hear of Scroogled by now. For those unfamiliar, it’s an ad campaign funded by Microsoft that tells people that Google scans people’s emails so they know what kind of ad content…

by Nate Swanner, 2 months ago

Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft. Three major tech companies, all hacked in the past few weeks… but they’re not alone. Who is responsible? Why did they do it? We may never learn the answer to those questions,…

by Nate Swanner, 3 months ago

Credit: Voxpelli/Flickr The once mighty Microsoft is in a bit of peril as of late. Windows 8 is widely panned, Surface tablets are selling slowly, and they’re losing footholds once considered intrinsic to their success….

by J. Angelo Racoma, 3 months ago

Apps and the developer ecosystem are the lifeline of any mobile platform. This is what sustains the iOS and Android mobile ecosystems. Without apps, our mobile devices will just be boring old shells for a…