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An upset Steve Ballmer calls Microsoft’s revenue report ‘bullshit’ while criticizing Satya Nadella on Windows Phone
Former Microsoft CEO and presently the company’s largest individual shareholder isn’t thrilled with the way Microsoft reports its finances, according to a recent report in Bloomberg. Microsoft disclosed on Wednesday its financial figures at its annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington, although Ballmer criticized the way in which those figures were reported. Microsoft reported what ...
Here’s what Halo 5: Guardians looks like through HoloLens
Microsoft has shown us what its augmented reality headset can do during demonstrations, such as put Minecraft in a living room and see inside a holographic body for learning purposes. But besides these great spectacles, alongside Microsoft attempting to send the headset to the international space station and news about the release of the $3,000 ...
Microsoft unlocks cities for the blind
Just over a year ago, we reported Microsoft’s efforts, along with the charity Guide Dogs, to use technology to help the blind. At the time, the navigational headset that could be worn by blind people to give them a sense of what was around them was still in its developmental stage. The technology was called, at ...
DANGER! Don’t get too attached to your online translator
I just finished reading the last story in the the sci-fi anthology Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft, a book dedicated to Redmond’s aspirations and how they might play out in the next decade or two. The story “Another Word for World,” written by award winning author Ann Leckie, takes Microsoft’s translating technology and puts ...
Microsoft takes a bite out of Apple’s momentum in the tablet-sphere
Apple may have bragging rights when it comes to the smartphone ecosystem, but recent reports state that when it comes to tablets it’s Microsoft that is going to be charging ahead. According to the new ‘Tablet Operating System Forecast’ by Strategy Analytics in the first nine months of 2015 Windows tablet shipments have increased at ...
Skype for iOS update means getting a lot of different things done faster
Microsoft has given Skype for iOS a boost with new app integrations that include, most importantly, Skype working with Apple Maps and the calendar on your iOS device. Skype 6.6 for iPad and iPhone, says Microsoft, has been reinvented to make multi-tasking easier. What this means is that now right now your Skype chat you ...
What’s up with Man in the High Castle?
I was talking with a friend the other day, Oliver Benjamin, the founder of the new sort of religion, Dudeism, about the series The Man in the High Castle, another Philip K. Dick novel turned out for the screen. You’ve got to realize, said Benjamin (I am paraphrasing) that when Dick wrote that no one ...
Microsoft’s delectable Xbox One deals for Black Friday, starting today
“The big day is coming,” says Microsoft in a video clip heralding Black Friday. A statement that is perhaps a tad bombastic, but nonetheless, Xbox is offering some pretty decent treats. This starts with a sale at the Xbox Store on November 24th, which consists of Xbox One and Xbox 360 content being sold at ...
Microsoft makes great changes to Bing for iPhone in a bid to deflate Google dominance
Microsoft has made massive changes to its Bing for iPhone app, with an emphasis on bringing up more relevant and useful information during searches that is integrated with your apps. The improved Bing, using Microsoft’s Knowledge and Action Graph, will pull up the required information but provide deep links into your other iPhone apps so that ...
Writers write Microsoft into a thing of science fiction
The Redmond tech giant, and what goes on within the walls of Microsoft, has been turned into a book of short stories. The book, ‘Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft’, consists of nine stories by nine science fiction writers who were allowed into Microsoft’s labs to help them imagine what the future of computer technology ...