Microsoft News & Reviews

Office 2013 Review

Office 2013 gets the Windows 8 treatment, with a touch-friendly interface and a sparser look, as well as new features in every application. So while the main thing you’ll notice...
Microsoft Readying for New Xbox With August Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

Not news: Microsoft is prepping a successor to its Xbox 360 console, and eager gamers have but two days to wait until the company pulls the big curtain off its new...
Microsoft Surface Pro Available in U.K. May 23

Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet will go on sale across the pond beginning May 23. The Windows 8-based tablet will hit shelves in the U.K. next week, for an estimated £719 ($1,100)...
Windows Phone Edges In on iOS, Android in Q1, Barely

While Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS continued to dominate the worldwide mobile OS market in the first quarter, Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform edged its way into third place, according to new...
Google Orders Microsoft to Remove Windows Phone YouTube App

Microsoft might be tickled pink about its updated YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, but Google certainly doesn’t feel the same way. The search giant on Wednesday sent Redmond a cease-and-desist...
Microsoft Partners With Paramount for Star Trek Cross-Promotion. Oh, Brother!

In today’s news we learn that Microsoft is partnering with the Paramount Pictures to promote the new movie Star Trek Into Darkness. The campaign will consist of many cross-promotions, including adding...
Windows Blue Officially Dubbed Windows 8.1, Coming as Free Update

The upcoming Windows Blue update, now officially known as Windows 8.1, will be delivered as a free update through the operating system’s app store, Microsoft confirmed today. Redmond’s chief marketing officer,...
Report: Microsoft Prepping Streaming Set-Top Box

Although Microsoft has received its share of criticism for its responses to challenges in the mobile arena from the likes of Apple and the Android operating system, most agree that the...
Microsoft Names Amy Hood New CFO

Microsoft on Wednesday named Amy Hood its new chief financial officer, effective immediately. Hood was promoted from CFO of the Microsoft Business Division (MBD). She replaces outgoing CFO Peter Klein, whom...
Steve Ballmer: Should He Stay or Should He Go?

Various members of the investment community have been calling for Steve Ballmer to be removed from Microsoft. Today The Street‘s Jim Cramer once again accurately analyzes the situation but then wrongly...
Microsoft Office Web Apps Come to Android

Microsoft this week unveiled a few updates to Office Web Apps, the Web-based companion to Redmond’s full Office suite that made its debut in 2010. Among the expected updates is the...
Microsoft Windows Blue Coming Later This Year

UPDATE: Microsoft confirmed at the Wired Business Conference that it will release a public preview of Windows Blue at its Build conference next month. Original Story: The upcoming Windows Blue, the...
Get Organized: 5 Tips for Microsoft Outlook

When it comes to the pain of email, Microsoft Outlook is both part of the problem and part of the solution. The gargantuan program contains so many features, functions, settings, and...
Farewell Hotmail: Microsoft Completes Outlook.com Upgrade

All Hotmail accounts have been upgraded to Outlook.com, Microsoft announced in a Thursday blog post. Those with existing @Hotmail.com email addresses can keep them; “you will always be able to use...
Microsoft Struggles to Compete Against iPad, Ships 900K Surface Tablets

Microsoft landed on IDC’s list of the top five tablet makers after shipping 900,000 Surface tablets during the first quarter. But that still pales in comparison to the 19.5 million iPads...
Microsoft Embeds Wi-Fi Routers in Magazines to Push Office 365

Even in the age of augmented reality advertisements in major city centers and holographic billboards promoting the latest running shoe, the lengths some companies will go in order to promote certain...
Microsoft, DailyBurn Team for Second-Screen Workout Experience

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team on Wednesday announced it has teamed up with fitness and nutrition site DailyBurn to bring a whole new workout experience to users’ living rooms through the Xbox....
Microsoft Adds Skype Preview to Outlook.com

Microsoft today started rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com. The move brings Skype video calling and messaging to Redmond’s email service. Skype contacts will appear via the contact...
Windows 8 Review

Introducing Windows 8 With Windows 8 upgrades, new Windows 8 PCs and Windows 8 tablets having been released at the end of October 2012, the operating system has now been in...
Windows Phone Sees ‘Continued Growth’

Windows Phone may have captured only 5.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, but it still “showed continued growth” during the first quarter, according to Monday stats from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech....