Local News: Ashburn, VA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Microsoft News Editors

News Widget

Display the Microsoft news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Microsoft News

News on Microsoft continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

21 min ago | ComputerWorld

New Kinect for Windows to improve human interaction with computers

Human interaction with computers could improve with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, which will be better at recognizing gestures, motion and voice.

Comment?

Related Topix: Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, Video Games, Computers, Microsoft, Startups, X360, Microsoft Xbox

2 hrs ago | All Things Digital

Jawbone Hires Microsoft's Mindy Mount as President to Turbocharge Ops

In a key hire, Jawbone said today that it had hired Mindy Mount, a top corporate VP at Microsoft, as its president.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Groove Commerce, Dapper, Citizen Sports, University of Wisconsin Madison

3 hrs ago | SlashGear.com

Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse and Mobile Mouse bring touch tab to your tips

Though the Windows 8 user interface still sits in the "generally designed for touch" category, Microsoft isn't being shy about continuing to push their hardware line with clickables like the Sculpt Comfort Mouse and the Sculpt Mobile Mouse this week.

Comment?

Related Topix: Mice, Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Keyboards

7 hrs ago | Windows IT Pro

Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

A few weeks back I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8. One of the first things that I did was install the Hyper-V Manager and I pinned it to my taskbar.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Bill Gates

11 hrs ago | CMSWire

Samsung Sells 10 Million Galaxy S4s, as Microsoft's Advertising Takes on the iPad

After the big Spring launches comes the bragging and the competitive advertising.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Groove Commerce, Apple

13 hrs ago | Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft Launches Azure in China Via 21Vianet Group

Microsoft is the first major U.S. provider to launch a public cloud in China. Windows Azure is rolling out in China through partner 21Vianet Group , a large carrier-neutral internet data services provider.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Sentillion

14 hrs ago | NextGenLog

#ALGORITHMS: "Microsoft's Big Data Taming Energy Waste"

Instead of spending $60 billion to rip-and-replace the scourge of incompatible heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems on its sprawling campus, Microsoft decided to practice-what-it-preaches by using Big Data running on its Windows Servers to cut energy wastes: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington uses ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Redmond, WA

Wed May 22, 2013

ComputerWorld

Preston Gralla: Users tell Microsoft, keep your Windows 8 Metro apps, we don't want them

Microsoft's new-style "Metro" Windows 8 apps were supposed to draw people to the operating system in droves, but the exact opposite is happening.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups

MacRumors

Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Tablet Ad Highlighting iPad's Flaws, High Price

As noted by The Verge , Microsoft has released a new Windows 8 tablet ad that uses Siri to highlight a few of the iPad's shortcomings, depicting the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet as a robust productivity machine while implying that the iPad is more suited to entertainment.

Comment?

Related Topix: Ipad, Science / Technology, GarageBand, iPod touchiPad App, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Microsoft, Startups, Microsoft Office

Neowin.net

Microsoft updates YouTube for Windows Phone, Google's issues partly addressed

Google specifically complained that the app doesn't show ads to users, which is YouTube's main revenue stream.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups

Rome News

Model high joins Microsoft IT Academy

Information Technology is a key to future success for today's youth. At Model High School, students have taken a giant leap into the future as the school has joined Microsoft's IT Academy.

Comment?

Related Topix: Education Etc., Georgia, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

WinBeta

Microsoft Surface and Windows: 'The Official Tablet and PC Operating System of the NFL'

May 21st was a big day in entertainment history as Microsoft revealed the new Xbox One entertainment console.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, X360, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games

BetaNews

A new social platform for Microsoft channel partners

The Microsoft partner network is Microsoft's 'official' body for channel partners.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Marketing

ComputerWorld

Citrix links cloud-based storage to Microsoft SharePoint and Azure

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure.

Comment?

Related Topix: Citrix Systems, Software, ShareFile, Microsoft, Startups

PC World

New Microsoft Kinect enters PC motion-controller wars

Microsoft isn't going to sit idly by as companies like Leap Motion and Thalmic Labs bring motion control to PCs.

Comment?

Related Topix: Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, Video Games, Microsoft, Startups, The, Deep Silver, X360, Microsoft Xbox

NEWS.com.au

Apple's Cook feels heat over taxes

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Phillip A. Bullock, right, Apple's head of Tax Operations, are sworn in on Capitol Hill.

Comment?

Related Topix: X360, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games, Oklahoma City, OK, Gay/Lesbian

Seeking Alpha

Microsoft Finally Gets How To Grow Windows Phone

Frankly, I don't know what took them so long but with the initial response to the Nokia Lumia 520/21 Microsoft is finally acknowledging publicly that the key to winning market share in the U.S. is through the low-end of the market by providing a superior experience for a better price than what is currently offered by either Apple or the gaggle of ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Nokia, Wireless, Telecom, Apple

Tue May 21, 2013

Examiner.com

New report shows a drop in satifaction with Microsoft

Ever since Redmond-based Microsoft introduced their latest operating system, Windows 8 , there has been much grumbling about the radical change, confusion on how to find your way around on the new system and bad promotion.

Comment?

Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology, PC

TrustedReviews

Xbox One vs 360

Chunky monkey, 10 pc larger Xbox 360 - One redesign in 2010 The Xbox 360 has had two main designs.

Comment?

Related Topix: The, Video Games, Deep Silver, 2010, X360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft, Startups, Opinion

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

Nine highlights from Microsoft's debut of next-gen Xbox One

Microsoft is finally joining the eighth generation of videogame consoles - and its system is meant to make every other system obsolete.

Comment?

Related Topix: Video Games, Activision, Call of Duty , Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, X360, Microsoft Xbox