At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Microsoft talked about the next version of Windows Phone–now officially named Windows Phone 8–for the first time. The biggest single piece of news is something we knew was coming: …
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Another Day, Another Big Windows Event
On Monday in Hollywood, Microsoft told the world that it was going to make Windows 8 tablets. It was one of the biggest announcements in the company’s history, but there’s more Windows news to come.
Today, at an event in San …
Photos from Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Announcement
Scenes from Microsoft’s tablet event in Los Angeles. The company announced Microsoft-designed “Surface” tablets built to run Windows 8, which is expected later this year.
My First 23 Questions About Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ Windows 8 Tablet
I don’t claim to be psychic, so I’m not embarrassed by my utter failure to predict what Microsoft would announce at its mystery event in Hollywood.
Surface: Microsoft-Made Windows 8 Tablets Coming This Year
Microsoft’s mystery event turned out to be the announcement for Microsoft Surface, a pair of Windows 8 tablets made by the company and scheduled to launch later this year.
Microsoft is recycling the Surface name–previously …
Microsoft’s Kinect NUads Will Be Even More in Your Face (Perhaps for the Better)
When I think about online commercials and embedded spots and advertising in general, I imagine Malcolm McDowell strapped into a chair, his eyes pried open.
I think about volume jacking — TV ads that suddenly blare from my …
We Are Watching the Reinvention of Microsoft
Its not every day that we get to watch a company that helped make personal computing a reality reinvent itself. Yet that is exactly what we are watching as Microsoft inches closer to one of its biggest operating system launches …
Let’s Hope Microsoft’s Kindle Fire Competitor–Assuming It Exists–Isn’t a Kin
We still don’t know what Microsoft is going to announce tomorrow at its event, shrouded in carefully-orchestrated mystery, in Los Angeles. (I’ll be there to provide live coverage here on TIME.com, and I hope you’ll join …
L.A. Confidential: Live Coverage of Microsoft’s Mystery Event
It may be the most cryptic invitation I’ve ever received to anything. The Microsoft e-mail asked me to come to an event in Los Angeles on Monday, saying it was “major” and informing me that I didn’t want to miss it. But it didn’t …
Holy Cow, Microsoft to Build Its Own Windows 8 Tablet?
Way back in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft to sell a version of the BASIC programming language for MITS’s Altair microcomputer. Their idea–producing essential system software for computers manufactured by …
Why It’s Increasingly Tough to Compare Macs and PCs
When I sat down to review Apple’s new Retina-display MacBook Pro, I instinctively wanted to compare it with similar Windows laptops. I wanted to discuss how the specs stacked up and whether the price seemed fair. I hoped to …
Skype Rolls Out ‘Conversation Ads’ During Audio Calls
Wondering what Microsoft had in mind for Skype when it bought the company in May of last year for $8.5 billion? Apparently, the answer is ads.
Yes, today Skype announced “Conversation Ads.” Well, Skype doesn’t want you to …