Microsoft on TFTS - Page 3

What’s in a name? If you consider the value of a brand, accountants and business people actually put an amount to a company’s brand name, especially if mindshare and goodwill can bring in business. Apple, for one, has jumped to the eigth most valuable brand in the world in 2011, [...]

If Microsoft’s purchase of Skype last year meant anything, it was likely to have Skype’s VoIP technologies integrated into Windows Phone 7. According to Microsoft, WP7 smartphones will soon integrate Skype voice and video calling in its “Apollo” update.

The iPad can now run Windows. But, no, you won’t have to install BootCamp like with Intel-based Macs. Windows will run remotely via the cloud with an iOS front-end, thanks to OnLive Desktop.

Following in what is becoming a long list of other companies, it looks like LG Electronics has become the latest company to sign a patent agreement with Microsoft. The agreement will deal with both Android and Chrome OS and follows similar agreements from ten other companies to include HTC, Samsung, [...]

Talk of the next generation is, apparently, in full swing. Rumors earlier this week said that Microsoft was going to tease its next console at CES 2012 (which hasn’t happened), and Sony’s Kaz Hirai has been quoted saying that the next PlayStation won’t be getting a reveal at E3 in [...]

You know it’s got to be a bad sign when Microsoft looks at a price tag and says: hey, whoa, that’s a little pricey. But that, paraphrased, seems to be what happened following reports that said Microsoft’s pay TV service is temporarily shut down following the discovery of just what [...]

The last Microsoft CES keynote has just ended and I personally think it’s a good decision to move away from CES for the company. No matter who decided to scrape the Microsoft CES show starting with next year deserves a raise as Microsoft doesn’t really need to occupy that spot [...]

Entering the world of flight simulation can be a scary thing. Flight sim players are a different type of gamer than what you’re typically used to – for whatever reason, it seems that there’s a lot of people who exclusively play flight sims, and those players take flight sims very [...]

Maintaining a Windows PC can be a pain, and most Windows users are aware that Windows often gets bloated through time. But a new “push-button reset” capability in the upcoming Windows 8 will make it easy to revert to a fresh installation in just a few minutes.

New word has just emerged that says the Nokia Ace is going to get a whole lot of marketing support behind it. Though by the time it actually lands, it may get something of a name change as well, it’s also going to have a substantial marketing budget. How substantial? [...]