Today Microsoft announced their new line of smartphones, Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone 7 Series will be a new cell phone strategy from Microsoft. Rather than building software for a large number of hardware configurations, Microsoft will be taking a cue from their XBox product and minimizing...
The European Commission (EU) has once again taken aim at Microsoft. The company has been accused of harming competition due to its bundling of the Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. The EU made the following statement on Friday morning: "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to...
Windows Phone 7 Series mobile device was previewed by Microsoft Tuesday though the phone will not be available for purchase for months. The Windows Phone 7 won't hit store shelves until later this year, but Microsoft allowed the public a glimpse of the device at its MIX10 Conference for web...
The Google-Microsoft War which has so far resulted in some great innovation on both the sides is also responsible for a few casualties; the latest being Microsoft's video sharing site Soapbox. Last month Microsoft had made an announcement that it isn't too optimistic about the prospects of its...
Although the entire technology world thinks that Microsoft finally succeeded in killing Yahoo search to become the only major competitor to Google, Microsoft's chief Steve Ballmer thinks otherwise. Today, Steve Ballmer sounded upbeat on this new search deal and defended it saying that it's a great...
Bill Gates, whose real name is William Howard Gates is one of the world’s richest individuals and one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He is best known as the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar company Microsoft Corporation in partnership with Paul Allen. Their corporation...
Even as little as seven years ago, trying to obtain video on the Internet, much less watching a movie, was a complete nightmare. With much of the Internet still on dialup, it could take hours to download even a three minute music video, days for a feature-length film. Furthermore, the video-watching...
The Giving Pledge, created in June by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett, has convinced over 57 billionares to give away at least half of their fortunes. Among the list of billionares who pledged to give away half of their wealth during their lifetime or after their death...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Google has finally confirmed all the rumors of it entering the operating system market which had been going on since years. Yesterday, in an official blog post it confirmed its plans to directly challenge Microsoft by introducing its own OS which would be called Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS...
