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Microsoft's $21B in quarterly revenue is nice, but it's no iPhone

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th, 2012)

When you think Microsoft, you think "big." Especially from the perspective of Apple's long-time customers and loyalists -- those who remember the rough times in the 1990s, when Microsoft's US$150 million investment helped keep the company from fiscal ruin -- the idea of corporate behemoth-ness is ...

iPads for Madison, WI schools purchased with Microsoft lawsuit settlement funds

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2012)

A total of about 1,400 iPads are heading to schools in Madison, Wisconsin during 2012, indirectly paid for by none other than Microsoft. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the school district is acquiring iPads as they are less expensive, easier to use, and more portable than the usual ...

Will the iPhone 4S overtake the Kinect as the fastest selling consumer product device?

by Richard Gaywood (Jan 29th, 2012)

In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of Guinness Breweries, was involved in a drunken argument about which of Europe's many game birds could fly the fastest. Unable to settle the argument even after consulting a well-stocked library, he commissioned a new reference book that would be filled ...

Daily iPad app: OneNote for the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 26th, 2011)

After years of developing mobile tools for its own platform, Microsoft has finally released a series of apps for the iPad including Lync, OneNote and Kinectimals. Hands down, the most anticipated of the bunch is OneNote, Microsoft's popular desktop app for taking and organizing notes. It's the ...

Halo Waypoint app available now

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2011)

Microsoft is really getting busy on iOS today -- first we saw Kinectimals released for the platform, then it was the new SkyDrive app, but last week we missed seeing a brand new Halo app built for the iPhone (and presumably Windows phone devices as well). This one is a little more useful than ...

Microsoft releases SkyDrive for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Dec 13th, 2011)

Watch out, Dropbox. There's a new kid in town, and he's bigger than you are. Microsoft has just released an iPhone app for access to the free Microsoft SkyDrive cloud storage service. SkyDrive for iPhone (free) should make Windows users who have documents stored in the cloud happy. Videos or ...

Kinectimals for iPhone and iPad available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 13th, 2011)

One of the first things I bought last holiday season after receiving a Kinect as a gift was Kinectimals. My kids loved it, but we found it can get a little tedious after a while. There it sits on the shelf of unplayed games... But perhaps when my kids get little iPod touches this holiday ...

My Xbox Live available on the App Store

by Mel Martin (Dec 7th, 2011)

Xbox owners with iPhones or iPads, rejoice! Microsoft has added a brand new app called My Xbox Live to the App Store today. The free app takes your Xbox Live experience portable, letting you connect with friends, update your Avatar, and even browse through the games hub all directly from the ...

Microsoft Doesn't Get It, Episode 65,536: TellMe versus Siri

by Chris Rawson (Nov 25th, 2011)

As with all new technologies developed by or associated with Apple, competitors are stumbling over one another to dismiss Siri. Google has already played the "yawn" card, and now Microsoft's Craig Mundie has joined the fray during an interview with Forbes. Here are Mundie's remarks when asked ...

Former Apple interface expert rants on Microsoft's "Vision of the Future" video

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 10th, 2011)

A few weeks ago Microsoft came out with a future of productivity video proposing a very touchscreen-based future for us humans. A former human-computer interface inventor for Apple, Brett Victor, has picked apart this video in a beautifully designed "rant" on his site, essentially taking ...

Why Google and Microsoft need to fear Siri

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 26th, 2011)

Tech.pinions' Tim Bajarin has opined on why they feel Google and Microsoft hate Siri, citing some excellent sources. As the article states, Google's Andy Rubin told the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, "You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody ...

Plug your iPad into a 150-inch touch display

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 21st, 2011)

Earlier this year, Crunchy Logistics unveiled an interactive, multi-touch table to rival Microsoft's surface devices. The LED table had 36 touch-points and supported common gestures like swipe and pinch-to-zoom. It's literally the size of a conference table. Best of all, the Florida company has ...

MS Office 2011 14.1.3 update patches some Lion-related issues

by Chris Rawson (Sep 13th, 2011)

Microsoft has issued an update to Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 with a bushel of bug fixes, outlined below. Installing the update (available at the link above) requires you to be running Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later. Improvements for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Office documents open in all ...

Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.0 arrives in the Mac App Store

by Matt Tinsley (Aug 30th, 2011)

Good news, users of Windows Phone 7 mobile phones and Apple Mac computers. Microsoft has just released the latest iteration of its Windows Phone Connector software -- version 2.0. And it's available for download now in the Mac App Store. Windows Phone Connector is developed by Microsoft to ...

Adobe releases a PDF creator for iOS

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2011)

Given the history between Adobe and Apple, this might be kind of surprising, but it happened anyway. Adobe has released an app for iPhone and iPad called CreatePDF that allows you to make and edit your own PDF files, right on iOS. The app can be used to open up any number of document formats, ...