Jason Ward

Full Photoshop on iPad highlights Apple's progress in post-PC computing and Microsoft's failures to advance its Universal Windows Platform.

Microsoft's iOS and Android investments are beginning to coalesce into a massive cloud-based Microsoft experience.

Google's Pixel Slate takes aim at Microsoft's Surface Pro's weaknesses and strives to match its laptop strengths.

Microsoft's Cortana-powered Surface Headphones may prove to be a smart wearable that complements Microsoft's cross-platform work and life mission.

In 2016, we learned of Microsoft's Home Hub plan to turn Windows PCs into Cortana-powered "smart displays." Google's Home Hub is Microsoft's Home Hub dream that never happened.

Microsoft's A.I. for Humanitarian Action is part of its A.I for Good global agenda to democratize A.I.

Microsoft's new "tech Intensity" push is about assimilating companies into its Azure-as-the-world's-computer vision. Resistance is futile.

Microsoft's ambitious IoT and ambient computing vision is being crushed by Amazon on the home front.

Microsoft's ambitious personal computing plan,from cloud computing to always connected PC's, rests on the advent of 5G networks.

Apple's powerful new iPhones are positioned to shift how we think of smartphones. These "mini tablet PCs" may suggest the time is right for Surface Andromeda.

Microsoft's and rivals cloud platforms are reliable, powerful and always available...until they're not.

Microsoft investments in risky future-focused technologies may be a setup for success or irrelevance.

Microsoft Learning Tools is a Hackathon-birthed set of tools that helps people with reading and writing. Soaring 100,000 to 13 million users in one year its impact is profound!

Microsoft's universal touch strategy makes Apple's touch-less Macs but touch-centric iPads and phones look broken and confused.

Many people bemoan Microsoft's lack of a "cool factor". But Microsoft isn't trying to be cool, its making others cool.

Microsoft's says Surface Go is for everyone. Here's why it's particularly great for businesses.

Microsoft's Immersive Reader is helping millions of people with Dyslexia learn to love reading and is equipping school with the tools to help readers of all levels succeed.

Google's rumored dual-boot Windows and Chrome Campfire Chromebook strategy may be bad news Microsoft.

Microsoft's inclusive design efforts need to include Sign Language recognition. And it has the technology to make it happen.

Google markets Chromebooks as more secure, simpler to use, and easier to maintain than Windows PCs. But Android apps on Chrome may have changed things.

Surface Go may bring the right combination of fun, quality and productivity to make it "cool" enough for consumer success.

The tablet market has been in decline for years, so why is Microsoft betting on Surface Go?

Microsoft's belief that devices should conform to users may be a forward-looking perspective its rivals are missing.

Microsoft's mobile-focused Surface Go is paving the road for Surface Andromeda inferred Surface creator Panos Panay.

The hybrid web-app solution, progressive web app, is touted as the possible solution to Microsoft's app gap; but it may do more good for Google than for Microsoft.