Schooling the competition
Why Surface Go is better for students than iPad (and why it may not be)
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Microsoft's pitting Surface Go against Apple's newest iPad in the education sector. Here are some pros and cons.
Warditorial
Folding PCs of all shapes and sizes
Microsoft's smartphone failures may negatively impact its folding PCs
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Folding PCs are here and potentially offer a range of versatility as desktop, journaling, gaming, creative and tablet devices. Sadly, Microsoft's smartphone failures may have done irrefutable damage to the increasingly important touch-and-app centric foundations that are important to its success in the age of modern mobile computing. Will the impact of a failing in smartphones forever...
You should care about accessibility
Microsoft and Deque make accessibility easy for millions of developers
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Most people without disabilities ignore articles about accessibility because like a wheelchair ramp they're there but seem irrelevant to them. With one billion people living with disabilities and many disabilities being acquired through accidents, disease or aging, we'll all be touched by disabilities directly or by association. With the digital world becoming more integral to our lives...
You will be assimilated
Microsoft's #InsiderUp isn't just about being nice — here's the big picture
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Microsoft's ambitious #InsiderUp program's goal to make everyone, everywhere a programmer isn't just about being nice; it's part of Microsoft's master plan to make every company a "tech company" that uses its Azure cloud platform.
The many are becoming one
Microsoft’s Azure goals ominously echo its past Windows-everywhere strategy
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In a multi-cloud world Microsoft's determination to make Azure the de facto cloud service powering the world's computing is ominously similar to its fateful Windows-centric strategy of the past. As Microsoft had to adapt Windows as a cross-platform OS to co-operate with, not dominate, other OSes, it must do the same with Azure to work with other cloud services. After all - to users the...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day — here's what Microsoft is doing
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Today is the eighth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day where the focus is on the creators of our tech employing making sure its accessible to all. This is something Microsoft does 365 days a year.
Cloud is cool
What Microsoft's ambitious plans for Azure mean to YOU
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Many Microsoft and Windows phone enthusiasts see Microsoft's cloud focus as a profit-driven obsession with little direct relevance to them. But the cloud is cooler, and more personally relevant than you think.
Look a little deeper
Microsoft's moral stance on facial recognition isn't as noble as you think
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Microsoft is making a bold ethical stand for the responsible use of facial recognition tech - but it's not all about being the "good guy."
Missed it by that much
Samsung's Galaxy Fold woes validate Microsoft's Surface Andromeda caution
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Microsoft's placing its Surface Andromeda folding pocket PC on the back burner angered fans, but may have avoided folding displays inherent weaknesses and the accompanying PR nightmare Samsung and its Galaxy Fold are experiencing.
Cloud wars
How Google is beating Microsoft in the cross-platform cloud
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Microsoft and Amazon are the world's leading cloud providers. Google's cross-platform, open source, hybrid cloud solution may have something to say about that.
It's Autism Awareness Month
How Microsoft is helping other companies hire people with autism
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Microsoft's cross-platform cloud strategy and open source development strategy democratizes tech, while its Autism Hiring Program is democratizing empathy.
Look world no phone
Microsoft Your Phone 'replaces' Windows phone and may replace your phone
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Microsoft's Your Phone app strives to keep your phone in your pocket.
Kill or be killed?
How the U.S. military plans to use HoloLens 2 to gain an edge in warfare
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Microsoft's Augmented Reality headset, HoloLens, is headed to the battlefield to make U.S. troops more efficient. And not everyone is happy.
Race is still an issue
Black History Month is over − this is what Microsoft did and didn't do
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Black History Month is over. Here's how Microsoft highlighted the contributions of African Americans. Was it enough?
Holographic computing is here
Folding phones are cool, but HoloLens 2 is cooler — here's why
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Folding phones are getting a lot of attention but Microsoft's HoloLens progress is moving holographic computing closer to the masses.
Privacy no more
Do we share too much about ourselves with Microsoft and others?
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We share a lot of personal information in the name of convenience, but at what price?
Out of the shadows
Microsoft's HoloLens and Surface creators are the company's secret weapon
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As Microsoft struggles to maintain its personal computing relevance its Surface and HoloLens creators may be its secret weapons.
Let's talk about mobile
These are Microsoft's three ambitious visions for mobile
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Microsoft failed with smartphones but is still pursuing mobile in three distinct areas.
Proof is in the pudding
Microsoft's retail partnerships prove it's committed to consumers
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Microsoft is committed to consumers. Just not in the way you may think.
Smartphones are dead
HoloLens 2 may be Microsoft's foundation for one day replacing smartphones
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HoloLen creator Alex Kipman famously stated "smartphones are dead." An appearance of HoloLens 2 at Mobile World Congress may be the beginning of the smartphones end.