Stuart J. Johnston

With the coming rollout of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft says it’s hitting an “inflection point.” The company is billing its new mobile operating system as a dramatic departure from its current Windows Mobile offering. As a result, Windows Phone 7 devices won’t support apps developed in the Windows Mobile 6.x environments, Enterprise Mobile Today reports. […]

It looks like Steve Ballmer wasn’t kidding, after all. Many had questioned how serious the Microsoft chief was when he promised Office 2010 would be ready “in just a couple months” in January. But now the company’s confirming the accelerated release schedule. Datamation has the details on when Microsoft plans to release Office 2010, and […]

Microsoft is back in the rumor mill, thanks to some leaked documents that surfaced on a gadget blog. Described as marketing materials, the documents, if legitimate, describe Microsoft’s plan to bring a branded smartphone to market dubbed “Pink.” Enterprise Mobile Today has the story on Microsoft’s rumored release of Pink, which purportedly has the software […]

Steve Ballmer’s not one to mince words. The always-exuberant Microsoft CEO turned his attention to cloud computing in a speech delivered at the University of Washington. For Microsoft, cloud computing is the future, Ballmer said, declaring his company “all in” on the cloud. CIO Update has the details. Just like the late winter sky outside […]

Engineers will be much happier to note that this month’s patch from Microsoft will be a lot easier than last month, which was one of the largest patches ever from Microsoft. This time around, you only have two bugs to fix. Datamation goes into details. Microsoft released its advance notice for next week’s “Patch Tuesday” […]

Microsoft hasn’t always has the most amicable relationship with the Linux community, to put it mildly. The software giant has at times invoked stern rhetoric regarding what it views as infringement on its intellectual property, and hasn’t shied away from lawsuits to enforce its patents. But it’s also struck some noteworthy licensing agreements, including the […]

Microsoft has been previewing its “Project Natal” gaming system for some time, offering glimpses of the technology that relays human movements to control characters in a video game. Microsoft is readying Natal systems to bring to market this holiday season, but the company says that’s only the beginning of where the technology will take us. […]

Microsoft has long said that it’s not fooling around when it comes to the mobile phone market — and now it’s putting its money where its mouth is. $1 billion, to be exact, according to one analyst. That’s one serious research budget for Windows Phone and new Windows mobile devices, but it’s money that Microsoft […]

A little more than a month ahead of the debut of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is sweetening the deal. The software firm is offering a discounted price for users of the 2005 or 2008 versions of the software to upgrade to the next iteration. Code Guru has the details about Microsoft’s discounts for Visual Studio […]

Microsoft’s Windows operating system remains a huge target for the bad guys. Datamation has the story on the software giant’s latest patch for malware called a rootkit that infected some user’s PCs. Microsoft has rereleased a bug patch from last month that some Windows XP users blamed for repeated restarts and blue screen crashes. After […]

Microsoft’s new CFO make a major appearance before analysts with Morgan Stanley. Despite a down economy, Peter Klein had an optimistic message; Microsoft has a slew of new products, including new versions of Office, Visual Studio and SQL Server on the way. Datamation looks closer. As the rest of the economy begins to reawaken, Microsoft’s […]

Flush from playing a part in forcing Microsoft to let users in the European Union (EU) select which browser they want to use in Windows 7, an EU-based trade group is asking non-EU nations around the world to demand the same for their own countries. The request by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), […]