Web designers around the world, it’s time to celebrate: Last month, Internet Explorer’s share of global browser usage fell below 50% for the first time in more than a decade. Your long nightmare of having to make things work for people who still use IE6 is a little bit closer to coming to an end.
Microsoft’s iconic browser can still …
Two years ago, Microsoft shocked the tech world with a visionary concept called the Courier, a dual-screen tablet intended for content creators. Details were scarce, revealed only in leaked documents. But in April 2010, Microsoft at once confirmed and killed the project.
(MORE: Microsoft Admits Courier Exists, Scraps Project)
Now, …
Sorry, party photographers, you’ve been replaced—by a robot. Microsoft’s new EDDIE (short for Expandable Development Discs for Innovation and Experimentation) can now roam a crowded room, focus on people’s faces and snap photos with a fancy DSLR camera.
Okay, so right now it’s more of an advanced, camera-equipped Roomba than …
My TIME.com column this week is about the tenth anniversary of Windows XP—and how it’s managed, against all odds, to remain the world’s most popular operating system, and why that makes some people unhappy.
It’s true, of course, that XP’s dominance is degrading. Some numbers are starting to show Windows 7 overtaking it, although …
Get a slice of this news. If you want to get a taste of Mango, Windows is offering some all around. Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as Mango; what’s up with all of these food names by the way?) would be pushed out to every phone, regardless of carrier.
Well, every phone but three, which includes the …
Eight months ago, Nokia bet its future on Microsoft, abandoning other smartphone efforts so it could create Windows Phones instead. Now, we’re seeing the first fruits of that strategy shift in Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
The Lumia 800 is the star of this show, with a gently curved polycarbonate frame, a 1.4 GHz processor and an …
Any Microsoft fans who were hoping to catch up with the company’s latest YouTube videos over the weekend would have been in for an unpleasant surprise: All of the videos had disappeared, replaced by five videos soliciting advertisers for the channel, along with a message that read “I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT …
Is the holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation on its way to becoming a reality? While we’re a long way from gunslinging across the virtual Old West, the research team over at Microsoft has developed something pretty impressive: the holodesk, which lets users manipulate holographic images with their hands.
The video pretty much …
Move over, Netflix; you’ve been replaced as the king of streaming television with Microsoft’s announcement of new partnerships for Xbox 360 with 50 international content providers, including HBO—the one “get” that Netflix has never quite managed.
The company’s announcement yesterday means that Xbox LIVE will soon be streaming live …
A moment of silence, please, for Microsoft’s Zune, which has ceased production at the tragically young age of four. The company announced yesterday that it “will no longer be producing Zune players,” although services and warranties for existing players will be unaffected by the decision.
The first Zune players, developed by Microsoft …
Oh no they didn’t (but oh yes they did): Microsoft’s antiviral software’s been “accidentally” wiping Google Chrome off the face of the map, or at least from the hard drives of several users’ Windows-based computers.
The trouble stems from a bug in the company’s antiviral security suite, an inconspicuous slice of software dubbed …
“Mango,” the major Windows Phone update that Microsoft has been promising for seven months, is going live.
The update to Windows Phone 7.5 is now rolling out to all handsets on Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. On AT&T, delivery has begun for the HTC Surround, LG Quantum and Samsung Focus version 1.3. These rollouts may take …