Microsoft
Microsoft is a devices and services company based in Redmond, Washington – a city about 16 miles east of Seattle. Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Traditionally a software company at heart, Microsoft dabbled in hardware with computing peripherals like mice and keyboards before going all in with the Surface line of tablets. The pending acquisition of Nokia’s handset unit will further add to Microsoft’s future plan to be a devices and services company.
Microsoft has many products in both the consumer and enterprise space. Most consumers are familiar with Microsoft through their operating system Windows, their office software suite Microsoft Office, their home entertainment consoles Xbox, and their mobile operating system Windows Phone.
Microsoft rose to power in the 90’s thanks to its operating system Windows and its office software suite called Microsoft Office. In the early 00’s Microsoft cracked the living room by launching the original Xbox. The Xbox has now seen three generational entries, with the Xbox One being Microsoft’s answer to the eight generation of gaming consoles.
Windows and Office continue to be a large part of revenue for Microsoft, but their future plans have shifted from a “computer on every desk” to “mobile first, cloud first”. Microsoft is investing heavily in their Azure, their cloud computing platform that will be the backbone of what they do for the next generation of computing.
Windows, Windows Phone, Office, Azure, Azure, Surface, and Cortana are all at the heart of what Microsoft’s future will focus on.
Latest about Microsoft
Is an overreliance on Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT negatively impacting our cognitive skills and making us dumber?
By Kevin Okemwa published
More harm? Studies and users have recently highlighted concern over the impact of AI-powered chatbots on their cognitive skills and knowledge. It seems that they might be doing more harm than good.
Microsoft is on the precipice of reaching its next 'iPhone moment' with AI affirming its status as the world's most valuable company ahead of Apple
By Kevin Okemwa published
TOP DOG Microsoft dethroned Apple as the world's most valuable company, and it will soon manufacture its own iPhone moment with AI.
Night City is calling this weekend as Xbox Series X|S owners get a free trial for Cyberpunk 2077
By Colton Stradling published
Trial Now redeemed from its poor launch, Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game, and you can try it out for free this weekend on Xbox.
AMD FSR 3.1 is bringing frame generation to other upscaling solutions and adds support for Xbox game development kit
By Colton Stradling published
FSR 3.1 AMD FSR 3.1 is set to bring various fixes to the technology and decouples frame generation and upscaling. Also adds Xbox GDK support.
Microsoft once again merges Windows and Surface teams under new boss — and that's good news
By Zac Bowden published
Merged Windows is moving back under the same team that handles hardware, after briefly being moved under Microsoft's new AI organization last week.
Billionaire investor warns "The faster and higher things go up, the harder they fall" while talking about skyrocketed AI stocks, which will predictably lead to an inflationary economic slowdown
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI BAG The current AI boom will reportedly lead to an economic slowdown and inflation.
Microsoft apparently wrote the iPod’s success story, saving Apple from plummeting and falling into imminent bankruptcy in the 90s
By Kevin Okemwa published
THE SAVING GRACE Was Microsoft the secret to the success of Apple and the iPod? The US Department of Justice certainly thinks so.
A Minecraft exploit is reportedly allowing co-ordinated attackers to get any Xbox / Microsoft account fully banned
By Colton Stradling published
Bug Bash An exploit is allowing malicious users of Minecraft to falsely create malicious content as anybody and then report that content leading to a ban.
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