Microsoft

Celebrating the W3C and HTML5 with a New Logo Program

Ziad Ismail: Today, the W3C is announcing a new logo for HTML5. While some parts of HTML5 are still unstable…

Ballmer unsure how long he will remain on Microsoft’s board, thinks Nadella is doing a great job

Steve Ballmer stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft last month and remained on the company’s board of directors. Now,…

Fahad Al-Riyami · September 18, 2019 · 1 min read

Black Friday 2014: Get an 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet from E FUN for $99 from Walmart

There are already a large number of budget Windows 8.1 tablets out there from an equally large number of unheard…

Microsoft invites developers to their //Publish/ event, offers coaching and 1:1 consulting

This week on May 16-17, Microsoft is teaming up with community experts in producing an event called //Publish/. This event…

Microsoft reveals Gears of War and Shoot Many Robots to be free in December

With its Xbox One now firmly in the market, Microsoft can resume business as usual, and that means getting games…

Fahad Al-Riyami · September 18, 2019 · 9 min read

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Surface Pro 3: Designing every aspect of the engineering marvel

At Ignite 2015, Microsoft’s Vineet Thuvara, a general program manager on the Surface team talked in depth about what went…

Hammad Saleem · September 18, 2019 · 2 min read

Microsoft makes it less attractive for developers to create apps for Windows

Beginning January 2015, Windows developers will be at a disadvantage when it comes to making money using their apps submitted…

Microsoft gives Office Web Apps a flatter design in new interface overhaul

Microsoft just recently rolled out an updated and refreshed design for its Office Blogs and apparently the company has also…

Thousands of Surface Minis have been produced and await a launch date

There was a great deal of excitement at yesterday’s Surface event, but there was no sign of the Surface Mini…

Say hello in Welsh: Microsoft offers support for one of world’s oldest languages

Microsoft has teamed up with the Welsh Assembly to provide support for Welsh language in the Bing Translator app, Bing.com/translator,…

Rethink Internet Explorer: Microsoft showcases what the browser has done and what it can do

Internet Explorer, the browser you all once loved to hate, has grown stronger over the last few years. After ignoring…