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Watch Microsoft’s Xbox E3 keynote in under 11 minutes
Microsoft’s E3 keynote is in the rear-view. Join editors Billy Steele and Nick Summers as they break down the most important announcements. Or, if you haven’t got 11 minutes, here’s an even shorter rundown: What did we expect to happen? At E3 this year, Microsoft defied expectations. Last December it was revealed that the company […]
Microsoft’s plan for GitHub: “Make GitHub better at being GitHub”
Enlarge / From left to right: current GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and former Xamarin CEO, soon-to-be GitHub CEO Nat Friedman (credit: Microsoft) As part of Microsoft’s $ 7.5 billion purchase of cloud source code repository GitHub, the company is installing a new CEO. Once the deal closes (which is expected to […]
Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition: It’s a developer-first world and we’re just living in it
GUEST: It’s no longer controversial: The tech universe rotates around developers. A little over a year ago, I wrote about how developers are more powerful than ever. They play a critical role in turning raw technological power into custom applications that make life easier – and create value. Over the last decade, they have ascended […]
Why Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is a good thing for developers
GUEST: When the news that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub became official early Monday, reactions were mixed. Understandably, GitHub’s user base, which consists mostly of developers, is skeptical of the move. The union of a source code platform with the maker of Office 360 (and Microsoft Clippy) might seem like an odd pairing. But if you […]
Microsoft’s AI future is rooted in its gaming past
The Kinect will never die. Microsoft debuted its motion-sensing camera on June 1st, 2009, showing off a handful of gimmicky applications for the Xbox 360; it promised easy, controller-free gaming for the whole family. Back then, Kinect was called Project Natal, and Microsoft envisioned a future where its blocky camera would expand the gaming landscape, […]
Microsoft’s digital ink tool makes sense of your chickenscratch
During its Build conference today, Microsoft introduced Project Ink Analysis, which does exactly what you’d think: Make sense of digital writing. The toolkit both understands words and provides features typically found in text editors, like alignment and bulleting. While Project Ink Analysis is still in its experimental stages, it could obviously help anyone who habitually […]
Even Windows revenue is up in Microsoft’s $26.8 billion 3Q18
(credit: Julien GONG Min / Flickr) Microsoft has posted the results of the third quarter of its 2018 financial year, running up until March 31, 2018. Revenue was $ 26.8 billion, up 16 percent year on year; operating income was $ 8.3 billion, up 23 percent; net income was $ 7.4 billion, up 35 percent; […]
Leak reveals Microsoft’s new Xbox Avatar system
Microsoft’s new Xbox Live avatars have been on the cards for a while now, with the company last year promising more diversity and customization. Now, a leaked video (allegedly from a former Microsoft designer and since removed from YouTube) has revealed what they’ll look like, plus the editor interface that’ll let you design your character. […]
Microsoft’s billionaire co-founder has an art collection worth as much as $750 million — see the painting he just sold for a cool $35 million
Art Basel Hong Kong is the premier art fair in Asia for millionaire and billionaire collectors to buy and sell art. China is now the second biggest art market in the world, after the United States. Art Basel Hong Kong kicked off this year with one of its biggest sales yet thanks to Microsoft co-founder […]
