If you’re someone who needs to use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol to get access to a computer from afar, there’s good news on the horizon: Microsoft is working on an… Read More
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 81.6 million units in the third quarter, a decline of 7.6 percent compared to the same period a year ago, but better than the 9.5 percent… Read More
Memo to Microsoft: When it comes to Surface tablets in the classroom, be careful what you wish for. Because you might be the next victim of education’s Curse of the… Read More
The Xbox One has been sold out at most online retailers for a while now — maybe President Obama is swooping all of them up — but it looks like… Read More
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman delivered an upbeat assessment of the company’s prospects during an address to investors and analysts this morning, saying she has “real confidence that we’re headed in… Read More
If you want to be the first to get your hands on the Surface 2 or Surface Pro 2, Microsoft is hosting ten midnight launch events across the country to celebrate… Read More
Over the years there has been a great deal of speculation and misinterpretation of Microsoft’s plans to bring its core Office programs to Apple’s iPad. So much that it’s not… Read More
Here’s one way to make a quick $100,000: Find security flaws in Microsoft products. That’s how much James Forshaw, a security researcher at Context Information Security, just made for finding a… Read More
Maybe President Barack Obama pre-ordered an Xbox One for his daughters. Or it’s possible that he’s been taking some stress out recently by getting on the sticks. Whatever the case,… Read More
Playing defense on Madden 25 for the Xbox One is about to be way more intense, detailed and creative than it ever was in previous football video games. That’s because EA… Read More
Hey, that looks like an interesting story in that random tweet on my Windows Phone lock screen. I’d like to read that. Let’s see, I’ll swipe at it. Nope, that… Read More
Lots of mobile companies offer rewards to developers who make apps on their platforms. But Nokia’s new DVLUP program is a little different, using a gamification model that encourages competition… Read More
The Chromebook army marches on, and it’s headed straight for the low end of Microsoft’s consumer Windows PC business. HP announced today that it’s launching the Chromebook 11, an 11.6-inch… Read More
Ah, those funny Finns. In the wake of Microsoft’s $7.2 billion deal to acquire Nokia’s mobile phone business, someone has reportedly used stickers to replace “Nokia” with “Microsoft” on road… Read More
It’s been a long road for Windows Phone users wanting to watch YouTube videos in a native app on their phones, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any shorter.… Read More
Microsoft has calmed the Xbox One fires ablaze this weekend after an Ad Age story suggested that the new Kinect could be used to extract data for advertisers. AdAge, reporting… Read More
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been known to drop significant hints about the company’s future in his annual letter to shareholders, such as last year when he declared Microsoft officially… Read More
Fox News today unveiled a new “News Deck” broadcast newsroom featuring an array of 55-inch touch-screen computers that appear to be running a version of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system.… Read More
Microsoft Bing is launching a test program in Seattle this week that aims to overcome one of the challenges of daily deals programs — eliminating the requirement to show a… Read More
Apple’s iOS 7 has been accused of taking cues from Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows 8, but Microsoft sure took its sweet time updating its Skype apps for Apple’s new… Read More
Writer, interviewer and tech evangelist Robert Scoble was back in Seattle this week, with his ever-present Google Glass, to promote the “Age of Context,” his new book with Shel Israel about… Read More
If you’re a Windows Phone user who has been waiting to unfriend that one person who was kind of in your group of friends, but couldn’t do it because the… Read More
Much of the speculation about Microsoft’s next CEO has focused on individual candidates for the job, but what if the company could land two veteran leaders with complementary technical and… Read More
Guest Commentary: A flurry of speculation that Seattle’s Alan Mulally, Ford’s turnaround CEO, might be chosen to become Microsoft’s next CEO has digital pundits rushing to throw cold water on the idea. Forbes, for one,… Read More
The difference between two of the most well-known smartphone makers could hardly be more stark these days. Samsung issued earnings guidance overnight for record operating profit of at least $9.2 billion… Read More
Microsoft’s board gave CEO Steve Ballmer a smaller bonus for fiscal 2013 due to declining Windows profits and the struggles of the company’s Surface RT tablet, according to the company’s… Read More
A law professor is giving Microsoft a statistical smackdown over its “Bing it On” search challenge, but the company isn’t going down without a fight. Ian Ayers of Yale Law… Read More
Autumn is officially here. How do we know? Well, of course there’s the rain. But, as GeekWire Chief Business Officer Daniel Rossi pointed out earlier today, I’m also no longer… Read More
For the second time this year, Bing has added a Pinterest feature to its image search. Now when you search for certain topics on Bing images, Pinterest boards will show… Read More
Microsoft this morning released a remake of the classic game “Hover” for the web. Hover originally debuted on the Windows 95 CD-ROM, and in a fun twist, the new version… Read More