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Windows Phone 8, Kinect for Windows SDK Powered Microsoft's Week

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Microsoft's week included a swipe at Google, the next version of Office in technical preview, and some leaks about Windows Phone 8. - Microsofts week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the latters privacy policy, the next version of Office entering technical preview, and the unexpected revelation of some crucial Windows Phone 8 details. ...

Microsoft's Business Software, Kinect Help Drive Quarter

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Microsoft's quarter saw robust business software and entertainment-product sales, although Windows sales remain soft. - Microsofts results for its second quarter 2012 offered little in the realm of the unexpected: Xbox 360 and Kinect hands-free controllers continued to sell at a steady clip, as did business software, while Windows revenue dipped on softening PC sales. All told, quarterly revenue topped $20.89 bil...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer CES Keynote: Windows Most Important

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spent his possibly last Consumer Electronics Show keynote playing up Windows Phone and the upcoming Windows 8. - LAS VEGAS Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage here Jan. 9 for what could very well be his last keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As predicted by many in the tech media, his talk focused primarily on Windows Phone, Microsoft's designs on living-room entertainment and ...

Microsoft in 2011: 10 Things the Software Giant Should Have Done

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NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft had a rough 2011 when all things are taken into account. The software giant should have done several things to fix what has been a difficult 12 months. - Microsoft had a rather interesting 2011. On one hand, the company did a fine job of appealing to consumers with products like its Xbox 360, which continued to see skyrocketing sales. But on the other hand, it lost the tablet space to Google and Apple, and handset makers have largely balked at pr...

Windows 8 App Store, Xbox Revamp, HP Agreement Marked Microsoft Week

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Microsoft's week involved the unveiling of the Windows 8 app store, a revamp of the Xboxs Live Dashboard and a cloud agreement with Hewlett-Packard. - Microsofts week included a new partnership agreement with Hewlett-Packard and the unveiling of the long-anticipated app store for the upcoming Windows 8. Microsoft and HP plan on jointly offering private and public cloud solutions for businesses, under the terms of a newly announced four-year init...

Microsoft Riding Windows Embedded to Big Data Payoff

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In updating the road map for its Windows Embedded platform, Microsoft shows how it plans to tap into the Big Data opportunity created by a world of connected intelligent devices. - If information is power, then Microsoft is looking at its Windows Embedded group to play a key role in making the software giant a lot more powerful as the unit lays the foundation for a new world of intelligent systems. Microsoft is looking to be a major player in the new world of the Internet...

Microsoft Posts Strong Revenue, But Cloud Services Still a Question

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Microsoft posted strong quarterly numbers on sales of business software and Windows, but cloud and online services arent yet major revenue drivers. - For its first fiscal quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported strong sales of traditional software such as Windows and Office. But its online services, which the company is betting will eventually help supplant traditional software as a major revenue driver, remain a relatively small part of the over...

Hortonworks, Microsoft Sign Co-Development Deal for Hadoop

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It is an unusual strategic relationship to accelerate the delivery of a Hadoop-based distribution to run on Windows Server and Azure platforms. - Hortonworks, the Apache Hadoop-based data analytics provider that was spun out from Yahoo last July, did on Oct. 12 what just about any open-source company would have found impossible only a couple of years ago: It announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The announcement was made at...

Windows Developer Preview Offers Glimpse of Future

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The pre-beta of Windows 8 shows off a new UI and design features but otherwise looks familiar. - If Ive learned nothing else from spending a few days with the Windows Developer Preview, its that Microsoft is taking few chances on there ever being another Vista. Although the first impression one receives of this taster release of Windows 8 is a dramatically different user experience compared...

Windows Server 8 Preview Promises VMware Challenge

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Hyper-V is positioned to support enterprise workloads with virtual infrastructure. - The Microsoft Windows Server 8 developer preview has enough promising enhancements to virtual networking, storage and infrastructure management to warrant serious IT interest as a data center platform. While much is yet unknown about Windows Server 8, including when it will be released and licen...

Microsoft Struts Out Windows 8, Developer Story at BUILD

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At its BUILD conference, Microsoft showed a lot more of Windows 8, the codename for the next major release of Windows. The software giant also shared more details on its Windows 8 developer story. - ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Having promised to shed more light on its developer story for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference, Microsoft gave developers a peek at the direction it is going with the upcoming operating system along with more details about the OS itself. At an invitation-only pre-conference...

Microsoft's Office 365 Hit By Outages: Reports

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Microsofts Office 365 is reportedly hit by outages of undetermined size. Microsoft hopes Office 365 will help sell customers on its "all-in" cloud strategy. - Microsofts Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. “We apologize for the inconvenience that the [Office 365] outage has caused today. Were [sic] are working on resolving the issue,” read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsofts cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 m...

Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Blog

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Microsoft has launched a blog detailing developments behind Windows 8. This is surely just the first part of a massive marketing campaign. - Microsofts ramp-up to Windows 8 is beginning in earnest. In the quarters leading to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft devoted reams of digital ink to discussing not only the features, but also the development philosophy undergirding the operating system. Whether or not that contributed in any ...

Microsoft's Solid Quarter Sees Windows Decline

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Microsoft enjoyed solid revenue during the most recent quarter, but its long-running Windows franchise experienced a slight decline. Microsofts cloud push continues. - Microsoft offered strong quarterly results, but one of its revenue pillars the long-running Windows franchise experienced a slight decline. The company reported revenue of $17.37 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 2011, an 8 percent increase from the year-ago quarter. Quarterl...

Microsoft's Windows 8: What We Know So Far

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Microsoft's Windows 8 represents a huge bet for the company not only in traditional desktops and laptops, but also "post-PC" devices such as tablets. - When Microsoft released Windows 7 in October 2009, the software giant had two very particular goals in mind (aside, of course, from selling a whole lot of copies of its flagship software). The first was to remove the lingering stigma of Windows Vista, which never managed to overcome its early re...