Microsoft shouldn’t hire any CEO who wants to kill Bing and Xbox
Analysts may push for it, but it will make the company weaker.
Peter Bright / Microsoft Editor
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Trident power
Microsoft’s anime Internet Explorer 11 promo is really rather weird
Inori Aizawa is an ugly duckling who now battles robots.
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I like driving in my car
Head over to your nearest Microsoft Store to take Xbox One for a spin
Microsoft stores have hardware to try ahead of the November 22nd launch.
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Yes, people still use it
Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 out now
The new browser will be deployed automatically through Windows Update.
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The real real time
Office Web Apps pick up real-time co-authoring to go toe-to-toe with Google Apps
The move marks a new focus on providing a full Office experience on the Web.
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this call may be recorded
Skype offers partial API reprieve to call recorders and hardware apps
The API is still going away, but these core tasks will be kept alive.
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Google crawler tricked into performing SQL injection attacks using decade-old technique
Let the search engine do the dirty work with carefully crafted links.
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE
Got $38,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Why not buy a Dota 2 courier with it?
It's expensive because it's pink. And on fire.
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An endless game of leapfrog
AMD stomps Nvidia with R9 290… at least in reviews
New cards faster and cheaper than Nvidia's best, but retail units have mysterious slow-downs.
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High bandwidth, terrible latency
Need to get a bunch of data onto Windows Azure? FedEx your hard drives
Web role now supports Web Sockets, remote debugging, and more.
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Feature Story
Battlefield 4: The brutal, broken, beautiful pinnacle of first person shooters
Battlefield 4 is very Battlefield with all that that entails. Good and bad.
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Internet Explorer continues to grow, and Mavericks already on 11 percent of Macs
OS X 10.9 adoption shows the difference between Microsoft's legacy and Apple's.
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Maybe free lunches do exist
Cisco releases free and libre H.264 code for browsers
Cisco will pay the royalties for its codec, so organizations like Mozilla won't have to.
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Feature Story
Surface 2: More than a tablet
Review: Improvements specifically address RT's shortcomings—plus apps finally exist.
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Feature Story
Surface Pro 2: Less than a laptop
Review: The heart of a laptop it may be, but I want the body of a laptop, too.
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Microsoft posts record Q1 revenue, increased operating income
Windows OEM revenue sharply down, but enterprise sales buoyant.
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New Surfaces once again meaninglessly dissed for low repairability
Abundance of glue, screws, and ribbon connectors provokes 1 out of 10 score.
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More apps
At long last, Instagram coming to Windows Phone
Vine videos on the way, too.
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Windows 8.1 Music and Video: More playing music, less hard selling
But they're still not complete media solutions.
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Whoops!
Windows RT 8.1 update temporarily pulled due to a “situation”
Some devices left unbootable after installing the update.
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Feature Story
Windows 8.1: What a difference a year makes
Review: Not perfect, but 8.1 is an OS that actually works for desktop, mobile.
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Third Windows Phone update supports 1080p screens, quad-core CPUs
Microsoft shows off third Windows Phone update, gives devs early access.
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What's yours is ours
FISC approves phone metadata collection yet again
Program continues despite unwanted publicity.
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Premier partner, indeed
AT&T finally rolling out GDR2 update to Lumia 820s and 920s
Update brings CalDAV, CardDAV, FM radio, lock screen clocks, and more.
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Cash or check?
Microsoft pays $100K for new exploit technique, patches IE 0-day
Bumper payout is the first bounty paid under scheme started in June.