RSS: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is open-sourcing and releasing to the Open Compute Project its 'Project Zipline' data-compression algorithm, plus related hardware specs and source code. […]

Microsoft is making a big play to get game developers to use Azure, Power BI, machine learning Visual Studio and game-specific apps and services like PlayFab, to build their next products. […]

One Windows 10 user discovered what potentially could be a new setting coming to Windows 10 Home, allowing those users to pause updates for 35 days. […]

Starting next month, Microsoft will start displaying periodic pop-up notifications reminding Windows 7 users that support for that OS is ending early next year. Happily, you'll be able to shut them off. […]

Microsoft showed off the ability to mirror applications running on an Android phone to a Windows 10 PC last fall. Some Windows Insiders on the latest Windows 10 19H1 build can test-drive it now. […]

Microsoft has sued Hon Hai for patent royalties that it allegedly owes as a result of a 2013 patent-licensing deal it forged with Microsoft for unspecified Android and Chrome OS devices. […]

New Intel Core i5, 16 GB of RAM models of Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 are coming, starting in the U.S. and Canada, for Surface for Business customers. […]

After it makes available System Center 2019 in March this year, Microsoft plans to cease rolling out Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) twice-yearly feature updates due to customer feedback […]

In September 2018, Microsoft officials said Windows 10 was installed on more than 700 million devices. Now that number is 800 million, company officials say. […]

The latest Microsoft layoffs follow a January reorganization in its Worldwide Commercial Business that was meant to further accelerate cloud growth and simplify the group's structure. […]

Microsoft is making good on its promise from a year ago to up the revenue share offered to app developers who deliver through its app Store. […]

Microsoft is making available the Windows Calculator source code, build system, tests and roadmap as open source under an MIT license. […]

Microsoft seems to be moving toward simplifying and consolidating its project-management services portfolio by championing its new Project Service. […]

Microsoft's first African data centers are now open and serving up Azure. Office 365 and Dynamics 365 are scheduled to be added to the region by the end of 2019. […]

Microsoft still has yet to release to external developers a first preview of its coming Chromium-based Edge browser. But it may be getting closer to its debut, if leaked screen shots of it are any indication. […]

Microsoft is providing support for more types of Windows 10 PCs, as well as fleshing out its documentation, as it broadens availability of the Microsoft Managed Desktop Service. […]

Microsoft's 'Insert Data from Picture' feature is coming first to Android phones; iOS users will get the new feature 'soon.' […]

This is as close to Microsoft officially admitting it's out of the fitness Band space as we're likely to get. […]

When Microsoft began testing its Windows 10 20H1 release more than a year before it is expected to start rolling out, many company watchers wondered why. The answer may be more boring -- and a lot more complicated -- than you'd think. […]

Microsoft's Windows Defender ATP service, which provides pre- and post-breach detection and investigation, is finally generally available for Windows 7 and 8.1. […]