It sounds like nonsense because it probably is: an Xbox with a Blu-ray drive? The latest claim is that the next Xbox will include rival Sony's Blu-ray technology, countering reports that Microsoft's Xbox 360 followup would do away with optical media entirely.
A former Google employee who left the company for Microsoft last month has explained his decision in a blog post, and it isn’t pretty.
Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person’s own voice.
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn’t technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia’s Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.
Microsoft toasted the demise of Internet Explorer 6 today. According to Net Market Share, IE6 usage has dipped below 1% in the United States, joining other web-savvy countries such as Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.
The Federal Trade Commission’s year-long investigation into Google’s user privacy practices only finished a few months ago, but two U.S. senators have decided that two months is too long, and have called for the FTC to look into Google all over again, this time focusing on the company’s dominance in the search industry.
The current smartphone intender market is one I am very interested in. It’s up for grabs. In the U.S., this group presents a sizable opportunity. Nielsen has recently published some data suggesting that 44% of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones. So more than half of the U.S. population falls into what we call smartphone intenders.
Bill Gates has shot down reports that he’ll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.
A few best- and worst-case scenarios for the year ahead, on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and more.
The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away. Citing “sources close to Microsoft,” The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late February.
Yahoo has lost more than half of its value in the last four years, according to a valuation by Silver Lake Partners. The company, working with Microsoft and TPG Capital, has valued the company at $20.6 billion, far below the $44.6 billion the company was estimated to be worth by Microsoft when the latter bid [...]
