Microsoft has unveiled its own wish list for its OEM partners in 2017, highlighting the features the company wants companies like HP, Dell, and Asus to emphasize and the hardware designs it thinks are most likely to be attractive to customers. Some of the design emphases make sense — 2-in-1 …
Read More »Microsoft asks for exemptions to Trump’s immigration order for visa holders
Microsoft isn’t ending its general opposition to Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from last week, but it is more formally requesting the granting of immediate exceptions that would help its own employees, as well as the employees of other tech companies who are lawful visa holders but still affected by …
Read More »Tim Sweeney is positively steam-ed about Microsoft’s Windows Cloud operating system
Yesterday, we reported on Windows Cloud — a new version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 that’s supposedly in the works. Windows Cloud would be limited to applications that are available through the Windows Store and is widely believed to be a play for the education market, where Chromebooks are currently popular. …
Read More »Report: Microsoft prepping a locked-down version of Windows, with RT-like restrictions
Microsoft’s brief foray into ARM-based tablets running their own version of Windows debuted with the Surface RT and, after one attempt to refresh the product (Surface 2), faded from view thereafter. Microsoft’s mobile phones still run on ARM hardware, but the company dropped its attempts to build a crossover device …
Read More »Microsoft wants to bring HoloLens to the consumer market once the technology matures
When Microsoft first debuted HoloLens two years ago, it wasn’t clear if the company was working on a niche research concept that would find little life outside of tech demos, or if the company intended to push augmented reality as the Next Big Thing in the consumer market. HoloLens’ first …
Read More »Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses Trump immigration order in employee Q&A
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has already weighed in on Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order on refugees in a LinkedIn post, but now the company has made public additional thoughts on the subject from its top executive. On its official corporate blog, Microsoft shared an answer provided by Nadella during …
Read More »Amazon, Expedia and Microsoft to support Washington state lawsuit on Trump immigration order
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Monday that he’s filing suit in federal court against Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and select senior Trump administration officials, seeking a declaration that key portions of Trump’s Executive Order on immigration be declared unconstitutional. Alongside the lawsuit, Washington-based tech companies Amazon and …
Read More »Microsoft’s new Creators Update amps up Windows 10 security settings
Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft’s control panel and software settings have been split between the old Windows 7 Control Panel-style interface and the newer Settings pages that debuted in Windows 8 and Windows 10. The company has slowly been working to unify these disparate pages and options for adjusting system …
Read More »Court won’t reconsider DOJ argument in Microsoft customer data case
Microsoft won a narrow victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals today, as the court split 4-4 on whether to rehear arguments from the Department of Justice about why it wants to access Microsoft customer data stored on servers in Ireland. The Justice Department and Microsoft have grappled over …
Read More »Microsoft slashes Xbox One price to $250 ahead of Slim launch
This weekend, Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox One for the third time since May, giving users access to the Xbox 360 successor for a mere $250. Remember, the Xbox One originally launched with a 500GB drive and a Kinect sensor for $499, all the way back in November …
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