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Analysts: Office 365 is a win for consumers. For businesses, it’s not so clear
The unveiling of Office 365 Home Premium may be a giant step for Microsoft, but analysts say Redmond still has a long road ahead in its effort to regain consumer confidence. The new Office 365, which...
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Real talk from Steve Ballmer: Surface won’t dominate PC sales
In addition to running companies, most CEOs have mastered a greater, more common art: giving lengthy interviews wherein they say nothing at all. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is an exception to that, or...
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Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Page, and Brin (but no women) among world’s top 10...
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are not just engines of technological innovation in America — they’re also the path to Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, which was just updated. But there is a...
View ArticleWindows 8 finally has its own Facebook app
Facebook has finally announced a native app for Windows 8 –nine months after the operating system’s release. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer announced the app on stage at Microsoft’s Build conference...
View ArticleMassive Microsoft reorg unifies the company: ‘One Strategy, One Microsoft’
Microsoft’s leaders have greatly reorganized the company to boost innovation and better unify products and services being developed by its business groups. Microsoft offers an unwieldy number of...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s head of Windows takes over Xbox division
Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division is no more. In a memo today, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer revealed a massive, company-wide executive restructuring. As part of this...
View ArticleMicrosoft just spent 30 minutes saying nothing about its huge reorg
Microsoft put in place its largest company reorganization ever today. So what does Microsoft’s new leadership team have to say about it? “We have to be more like a football team where we help each...
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The DeanBeat: Microsoft goes crazy with its appointment of new gaming chief
It could quite possibly be the dumbest move Microsoft has ever made in games. Or the smartest. Yesterday, Microsoft appointed Julie Larson-Green, head of the Windows business, to be in charge of...
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Microsoft takes $900M charge for Surface RT tablets in disappointing earnings
Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings sure look ugly, with missed analyst expectations and the company taking a $900 million charge on its Surface RT tablet inventory. The company has made a lot of big...
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Why Lorne Lanning went from triple-A games to indie — and loudly loves it...
Above: Oddworld: Stranger’s WrathImage Credit: Oddworld Disclosure: The organizers of Siggraph paid part of my expenses to Anaheim, Calif. Our coverage remains objective. Lorne Lanning, the founder of...
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Microsoft admits it made more Surface RTs than it could sell
In a rare moment of corporate honesty, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted something about the Surface RT that you probably already knew: Microsoft made too many of them. Speaking at an internal...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire in less than a year
Steve Ballmer, the long-time chief executive of Microsoft, has decided to retire within “the next 12 months,” Microsoft announced this morning. “There is never a perfect time for this type of...
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The core of Apple's problem is Tim Cook, Scoble says (interview)
Tech evangelist Robert Scoble is a lot of things to a lot of people. The prolific blogger, tweeter, and speaker has over half a million friends on Facebook, is in a massive 4.1 million circles on...
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Microsoft needs an anti-Ballmer — but it won't get one
No matter how much we want to see someone shake things up at Microsoft, there’s little chance that would happen. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced this morning that he would be retiring...
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Every CEO should celebrate developers as much as Ballmer did
“Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!” Who doesn’t know the Ballmer cheer? Whether you were there in person or saw the YouTube remix, you remember the hollering, the sweating, the clapping,...
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What Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did for Xbox — and what his retirement means...
Steve Ballmer’s decision to retire as CEO of Microsoft in the next year will have a big impact on the future of the Xbox gaming console, as he has played a key role in all of the major decisions about...
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This week in tech stock: Microsoft scales Ballmer Peak one last time
Somewhere between sober despair and alcohol poisoning lies a land of infinite productivity and wizard-like programming skill. We call this land Ballmer Peak. That’s also what we’re gonna call...
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Microsoft + Nokia = Apple (at least, that’s what Ballmer is hoping)
Microsoft’s $7 billion deal to buy Nokia’s devices and services business was the inevitable outcome of a years-long courtship. For Nokia, the move was a much-needed bailout from its burning platform,...
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Steve Ballmer opens Microsoft’s Berlin accelerator with startup acquisitions...
Amidst the media buzz over who will take over from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the man himself was in Berlin today to open the company’s tech hub and announce the startups in the first batch of the...
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Steve Ballmer’s biggest Microsoft blunder: He was just too slow
Apple released the first iPhone in 2007. Microsoft’s Windows Phone didn’t appear until 2010. That alone should tell you all you need to know about Microsoft’s biggest issue over the last decade:...
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