Many become one
Why an intelligent cloud connecting a family of devices is the 'modern PC'
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Today's PC is evolving but not into a single form factor, as some may believe. Here's why.
Warditorial
Context and perspective
Why Microsoft — not Apple — will redefine the modern PC
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Respected analyst Walt Mossberg believes that the redefinition of the PC will be driven by Apple, not Microsoft. Mossberg has some valid points but also lacks perspective. Here's why.
Sound off
Attn Windows phone fans: What would your ideal phone look like?
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Diehard Windows phone fans desperately desire a new Windows phone to replace their aging devices. The HP Elite x3 and Alcatel Idol 4S are too expensive for some consumers. So would an affordable, Continuum-powered phone fit the bill?
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Lingo bingo
Is it Windows Phone or Windows phone? Windows Mobile or Windows 10 Mobile?
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Some people write Windows Phone (capital "p") while others write Windows phone. Some say Windows Mobile, and others say Windows 10 Mobile. What gives?
Can you handle the truth?
What Apple's latest iPad ads say about Microsoft and Windows
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Apple's blockbuster success with the iPad defined the tablet space. But Microsoft's Surface, Windows 10 and Surface inspired 2-in-1s have since put Cupertino on the defensive, as demonstrated by Apple's latest barrage of iPad Pro ads.
Long live Windows phone
Contrary to popular belief, Windows phone won't die anytime soon
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Every few months, Windows phone's declining market share provokes a new round of speculation about the platform's health. The situation isn't good, but the concept of Windows on a phone isn't dead. Here's why.
Redefining the PC
Why Microsoft's Surface phone could be MUCH more than a mere 'phone'
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Full Windows 10 on ARM has many people talking about the possibility of Win32 apps on a Surface 'phone.' But Microsoft is aiming far beyond the smartphone, and its sights might be set on a new form of ultramobile PC.
Listen here
Attn Android and iPhone users: What you need to know about Windows phone
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Many iPhone and Android user appear to be unclear on what exactly Windows phone is. So we summed it ALL up.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
If Microsoft doesn't kill at BUILD, Surface phone may be dead on arrival
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The Surface phone is expected by 2018 but Microsoft's ecosystem isn't ready. What will Microsoft do at BUILD 2017 to get developers on board?
Ready or not?
Microsoft still may not be ready to launch Surface phone by 2018
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Unless Microsoft surprises the world with a 2017 debut, we're expecting a game-changing Surface phone in 2018. But will Microsoft's ecosystem be ready?
First come first serve
What if Samsung builds a "Surface phone" before Microsoft?
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A foldable Continuum-enabled Surface "phone" may change the game for Microsoft, unless Samsung builds one first.
Moving right along
WhartonBrooks: Building the team, the company, the phone, and expectations
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Upstart Windows phone maker WhartonBrooks has been quiet for a little while now. I guess that's what happens when you're working hard to meet your own expectations, to say nothing of the fans'.
Is the grass greener than on Redmond's side?
If a Microsoft employee switches from Windows phone to Android should you?
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A Microsoft data scientist, and ardent Windows phone fan shares his love for Windows phone and conversion to Android!
It takes an ecosystem
If all of your hopes are in the Surface phone you haven't been listening
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The Surface phone hardware alone will not be Windows phone's savior. A multitude of ecosystem-supporting factors are important pieces to the mobile puzzle.
Becoming human
Microsoft is using you to make AI more human
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Microsoft is positioning itself as the world's platform for very human-like AI.
Everyone gets a holographic computer
I want my HoloLens!
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Microsoft's delayed consumer-focused HoloLens and the $3000 price are off-putting for consumers. Redmond is forging partnerships that will bring holographic PCs to the masses at affordable prices, however!
The new frontier
The AI and Bot "gold" rush
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The way Microsoft talks about their work in AI and bots might make you think that they're the only ones doing those things. But that would be a mistaken assumption. Facebook, Google, Apple, and a startup called Viv are striving for a position of relevance in the new frontier of artificial intelligence.
Let's talk about it
Cortana, AI and Bots are the Next Big Thing
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In 2014 I wrote an analysis that Cortana not health would be The Next Big Thing. Mobile computing required an equally dynamic AI & voice UI. The industry push of AI, bots and and conversation canvases has added to and changed some of my views, but has ultimately confirmed AI is The Next Big Thing.
Micrsosoft: PCs are what we do best
Evolve don't iterate: Bigger, faster phones aren't enough
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Microsoft's smartphone strategy has struggled in vain to garner any meaningful share in the current smartphone space. But suppose the company fought the battle from a position of strength? As the mobile phone industry evolves, Microsoft's PC forte' may be its mobile salvation.