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Microsoft's motion-sensing Kinect technology will be available for Windows PCs in a few weeks and is destined for a lot more than just gaming, CEO Steve Ballmer said at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
Even as questions remain about Microsoft's commitment to its Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform, the company has made available version 5 of the technology, featuring a variety of new capabilities.
Google’s Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Firefox to claim the number two slot in the browser battle, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
Open Mobile Marketplace is a store where developers can download modules to expand the functionality of the Titanium smartphone dev platform.
Metro apps for Windows 8 will be available only through Microsoft's own store, and a primer about the download market said MIcrosoft, like Apple, will get a 30% cut of all sales.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has strongly hinted that the company will craft a Metro-style version of the next Office suite.
Microsoft appears to be taking a page out of Apple's play book saying it will dump plug-ins such as Adobe Flash from Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. Well, sort of.
Want to give Windows 8's new look a try? Well, you can now download a Windows 8 developer preview release straight from Microsoft.
The buzz is building over Microsoft's BUILD conference that starts today, where the company will provide more details about Windows 8, which the company bills as the most radical change in its OS since Windows 95.
Microsoft is incorporating a software stack in its upcoming Windows 8 OS to natively support devices based on the USB 3.0 interconnect, which is in a battle for adoption with Intel's Thunderbolt.
Boot Camp, the Mac OS X utility that lets Mac owners run Windows in a separate partition, now requires Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7.
Microsoft has confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system.
Apparently doomed or at least marginalized by HTML5, Silverlight found a foothold in Windows Phone and has more recently emerged as a key component of the Jupiter application framework and programming model for Windows 8.
So many pictures, so little time to tag all those smartphone-generated memories. A pair of Microsoft interns have come up with a remedy.
Microsoft has improved the tools it provides for webmasters to track their sites' visibility on Bing search engine results, so that they can make any necessary adjustments to improve how Bing crawls their content and ranks their pages.
Some big changes are on the way for Microsoft's Windows Phones, thanks to the Mango update coming this fall, but what about hardware?
Microsoft's next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed Windows 8, will debut in 2012, company CEO Steve Ballmer said this week.
In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend.
Mozilla and Opera have mocked Microsoft's use of the term "native HTML5" to describe IE9 and the upcoming IE10 as an oxymoron, an attempt to hijack an open standard and a marketing ploy.
IE10, the next version of Internet Explorer, was showcased this week at Microsoft's MIX developer conference. The goal, the company says, is enabling web standards to exploit OS-specific features like hardware acceleration.
