Meet Meka Robotics' M1: It's mobile, has dextrous arms, smart software, uses modified Microsoft Kinect sensors, and if you work in manual industries, could one day steal your job.READ»
Microsoft often tramps along the same footpath that Apple's followed, hoping to cream some money from the market with a minimum of effort, and a new rumor suggests it's trying again--this time with online subscription TV.READ»
Microsoft's Partner Conference for 2010 is just getting underway, and already some big news is coming out of the event: MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and ...READ»
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie just finished speaking at the All Things D D8 conference. In the spirit of fair comparison, we did some thinking about their language, just as we did for Steve Jobs ...READ»
While you slept, the innovation news kept gushing. Here's what you've missed so far:1. "We did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit," said BP CEO Tony Hayward in an interview for the FT (did you know that BP's official ...READ»
Microsoft may be being all cocky about video codecs in Internet Explorer 9, but the reality is that the browser's share of the market is on the slide. Slowly, since it's just fallen below 60%, but it's still downwards. Net ...READ»
The fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs' missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, and it's getting complicated. ...READ»
Microsoft's testing a service that may, just may, be a breath of fresh air to PC users struggling with balky or broken Windows installations: It's called "Fix It"...and it purports to do exactly what it says, largely automatically.The ...READ»
Microsoft's only just announced its months-off revamp to WinMo, now Windows Phone 7, and the SDK release is ages away too. But someone's just leaked the app developer agreement documentation...and revealed it's a lot like ...READ»
This is going to interest sysadmins the most, but it's also a surprise blow against Microsoft: Virtualization experts VMware have just bought out Zimbra, who make collaboration software. The target is clearly MS Exchange.
Zimbra, ...READ»
Sorry--Microsoft's not really wowing the consumer and managing an early release of Windows 7 as Apple just did for Snow Leopard. It is pushing Win7 out the door ahead of time, but it's the highly-specialized embedded-systems ...READ»
Microsoft is obviously chock-full of nice sweet people, slaving away to make its software products all groovy...but not Amy Barzdukas. She's just been saying some very snarky things about Firefox's Billion Downloads claim.
Amy, ...READ»
