(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled a revamped, Facebook-friendly version of its free, online email service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse market share losses to Google Inc’s fast-growing Gmail. The world’s largest software company is renaming its Hotmail service Outlook, giving it a sharp new look, social network links, and new features for handling […]
Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists
Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps? Or Twitter? Or Google? Try Microsoft Corp: the company once derided as the “death star” of the technology business and lately thought of not so much as dangerous, but merely irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull. “Microsoft feels cool again,” said 22-year-old Gbenga Badipe, an electrical […]
Former top Microsoft exec says world is over the PC
Ray Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp’s tech visionary, believes the world has moved past the personal computer, potentially leaving behind the world’s largest software company. The PC, which was Microsoft’s foundation and still determines the company’s financial performance, has been nudged aside by powerful phones and tablets running Apple Inc […]
In Microsoft’s shadow, Seattle’s tech scene surges
The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city’s emergence as what some would argue is the West Coast’s second most important hub of technology and entrepreneurship. Many of the glass and steel buildings were built by Paul Allen, the second-richest — behind Bill Gates — of the numerous […]
Feeble Windows holds back Microsoft profit
Microsoft Corp’s flagship operating system made only slight gains last quarter, largely due to business and emerging market spending, holding back profit growth for the world’s largest software company. Sales of Windows, which still runs more than 90 percent of the world’s personal computers, edged up only 2 percent from the year-ago quarter, in line […]