Topic: microsoft

Silverlight: Does the new path lead to the end of the road?

Rumors abound about the demise of Microsoft’s media technology, but what do the portents about it really mean? … continue reading

Microsoft unveils the new Office

Delivers Office as a cloud service while harnessing innovations enabled by Windows 8 … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Android and iOS advance, BlackBerry retreats, Windows Phone re-launches

(Mostly) good news for users of these devices, but are any of them able to separate from the others? … continue reading

From the Editors: And the developers shall lead them

Microsoft must do better by developers to get ahead in the market; thank heaven for activist judges in patent cases … continue reading

Microsoft’s $1.2 billion question

Mike Watson’s reaction to Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition. How does it fit in with the company’s plans for social? … continue reading

Industry Watch: Microsoft on the move

Announcements on smartphones, tablets and more came out rapidly from the company … continue reading

Three things for developers at TechEd 2012

Team Foundation, global service monitoring in System Center 2012, and HTML5 support in LightSwitch were headlines … continue reading

Flipping on LightSwitch

Microsoft, its partners and its customers don’t all see eye to eye when it comes to Visual Studio LightSwitch … continue reading

Industry Watch: Testing culture undergoes dramatic shift

Changes in testing, particularly toward increasing automation, are making it more useful to organizations … continue reading

Microsoft grabs $1 billion’s worth of AOL patents

An analysis of the numbers suggests a strengthened portfolio for Microsoft, as well as additional revenue through licensing … continue reading

The Microsoft IP tussle over Android

IP lawyers describe the many tactics Microsoft uses to defend its patents, and how they can be countered … continue reading

Microsoft announces Visual Studio 11 feature pack, ‘build-in-the-cloud’

Team Foundation Service uses Windows Azure VM roles to perform builds in self-service fashion … continue reading

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