The Pentagon. (Flickr Photo / David B. Gleason cc2.0) A federal judge has paused work on a hotly contested cloud contract that the Defense Department awarded to Microsoft in November….
Continue readingMicrosoft is out with another weekly Edge Dev channel release, bringing a round of new features, fixes, and improvements to the table. This update comes in at build number 81.0.416.3,…
Continue readingAWS CEO Andy Jassy at the 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is asking a federal judge for permission to depose President Donald Trump…
Continue reading(perthsnews.com.au Photo) Amazon is the latest tech giant to pull out of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona later this month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The tech…
Continue readingMicrosoft chief product officer Panos Panay is expanding his purview to include the Windows user experience teams. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is embarking on a reorganization that will bring part of…
Continue readingIt’s not secret that Microsoft competes with Nintendo and Sony in the gaming space. However, the company doesn’t view the two as competition. Microsoft is obviously worth over a trillion…
Continue readingToday we released a new preview update for Blazor WebAssembly with a bunch of great new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new in this release: Version updated to 3.2 …
Continue reading“Tax Amazon” signs adorn a 2018 event hosted by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. (perthsnews.com.au Photo) The Seattle-area business community is throwing its weight behind a proposal to tax…
Continue readingVersions 16.3 and 16.4 of Visual Studio 2019 brought many new improvements in code generation quality, build throughput, and security. If you still haven’t downloaded your copy, here is a…
Continue readingMicrosoft Teams. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft Teams went down early Monday morning, gumming up the start of the week for millions of workers who rely on the tech giant’s chat and…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) For the first time in its 44-year history, Microsoft’s employee count surpassed 150,000 people, the latest sign of the tech…
Continue readingSurface Earbuds. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft’s Surface hardware business reached an all-time high of nearly $2 billion in revenue for the December quarter, but the company indicated that the result would…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Xbox business took a hit in the most recent quarter as the company prepares to debut its new Xbox Series X console this holiday season. Console vs. cloud: What…
Continue readingMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft posted revenue of $36.9 billion for the December quarter, up 14%, and surpassed Wall Street’s expectations with profits of $11.6…
Continue readingMicrosoft President Brad Smith speaking at the 2019 perthsnews.com.au Summit. (perthsnews.com.au / Dan DeLong) Microsoft launched a major health research initiative Wednesday to address some of the medical world’s most…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Activists are planning a demonstration at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus Wednesday to protest the company’s relationship with Israeli security firm…
Continue readingMicrosoft has struck a nerve over the past several years with Super Bowl ads that convey its mission and message around empowering individuals to achieve more. A new spot for…
Continue readingBest Surface Book 2 Accessories Windows Central 2020 Your Microsoft Surface Book 2 is a fantastic Ultrabook as is, but a few accessories could make your life easier. Whether you’re…
Continue readingMicrosoft has kicked off its campaign to get developers to support its dual-screen vision with the release of a preview toolkit. The toolkit allows developers to begin crafting apps for…
Continue readingOn Windows 10, the new version of Microsoft Edge includes a revamped printing experience with the essential features to print web pages, documents, and official forms to paper using a…
Continue readingRecently, Microsoft set up new studios and acquired a lot of teams like Playground Games, Obsidian Entertainment, and Ninja Theory. The Initiative is Microsoft’s new studio based in Santa Monica,…
Continue readingA drawing of solar panels attached to a Microsoft Surface-like device. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Photo) A future generation of Microsoft Surface tablets could feature solar charging capabilities if…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Digital Crime Unit in Redmond, Wash. (Microsoft Photo /Benjamin Benschneider) Microsoft said it got a court order to seize 50 websites used by a hacker group with ties to…
Continue readingThe great debates in computing all have one common theme. Whether it is tabs vs. spaces or Vi vs. Emacs, the thread linking all these debates together is keyboard efficiency….
Continue readingThe demise of Windows Phone forced Microsoft to take some bold steps to stay relevant in the consumer space. Making all its popular apps available for Android and iOS users…
Continue readingPrior to now, anybody interested in joining the Windows 10 Insider Program required a Windows 10 PC and a Windows account to go with it; but thanks to a new…
Continue readingCortana gives a user a rundown of everything she needs to know from several different apps. (USPTO Photo) Microsoft’s vision for Cortana continues to evolve, and according to a new…
Continue readingCortana could one day summarize your emails for you when you can’t stop to look at a screen. What you need to know A Microsoft patent imagines a smarter future…
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