Andy Rubin, although leaving his current position, is still staying with the company.
Windows 8 tablets are expected to perform much better than their Windows RT counterparts.
Windows 8 adoption rates have fallen even below Windows Vista.
Microsoft says it was an oversight that resulted in a deleted browser choice screen for more than a year.
Microsoft recently released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a downloadable suite for creating apps for Office and SharePoint.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/04/2013
The release lags IE 10 for Windows 8 by many months.
Microsoft becomes the latest victim of a spate of intrusions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2013
A new IDE, Xamarin Studio, is also part of the release.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/20/2013
CFO Peter Klein took questions at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco.
Another aspect of Blue could be a kernel update that eases interoperability between Windows 8/Windows RT apps and Windows Phone apps.
The tool aims to reduce testing time, leaving more time for development.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/06/2013
Possible products include a Windows 8/RT interim release, and a SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse update.
Latest cuts are seen as a response to reductions in Amazon cloud offerings.
The PC market is declining or staying flat as well, analysts are reporting.
For the first time, Git support and integration are baked in.
Microsoft today announced the release of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2 of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, with some major upgrades related to application lifecycle management (ALM).
Non-small business editions are coming in about a month.
The product combines on-premises TFS testing with the speed and agility of the hosted cloud.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 01/29/2013
Windows retakes its place as the top revenue producer for the company. Business and Entertainment divisions see a dip in performance.
Redmond claims AV-Test methodology is flawed.