Microsoft introduces Office for iPad with “freemium” pricing

In a just concluded webcast from San Francisco (the on demand webcast is already up if you missed the ~40 minute presentation), new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (he’s been on the job 52 days, he announced, “but who’s counting”), announced …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 27th, 2014 at 10:56 am

Satya Nadella first public speech – watch the webcast

At 10am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -8, in just less than an hour from this posting), Satya Nadella will speak at a press event in front of gathered journalists in San Francisco, reportedly to announce the introduction of Office for …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 27th, 2014 at 9:14 am

After “Microsoft” Azure, should Windows Phone be renamed?

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was renaming “Windows Azure” to “Microsoft Azure”, the latest in a series of moves to consolidate Microsoft’s branding and clean up the Windows brand. Followers of this blog know that Azure is only the …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
March 25th, 2014 at 7:46 pm

Nokia, still an outsider, plans a press event at Build

In just over a week, Microsoft’s Build Conference will convene in San Francisco, expected to unveil Windows 8.1 update, Windows Phone 8.1, perhaps an appearance by new CEO Satya Nadella, and now an appearance, still on the outside looking in, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 25th, 2014 at 10:44 am

Nokia expects Microsoft deal to close in April, still awaits regulatory approval in Asia

In a press release issued Monday morning (8:00, CET +1) in Espoo, Finland, Nokia announced that it now expects its deal with Microsoft to transfer “substantially all of its Devices and Services business” to close in April 2014. That makes…

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 23rd, 2014 at 11:30 pm

Did Microsoft Scroogle itself? Some thoughts, and the company response to the Kibkala/Canouna leaks story

Earlier today, we wrote about the arrest yesterday of Alex Kibkala, a former Microsoft employee who apparently leaked not only Windows 8 pre-release information to blogger “Canouna” who ran WinUnleaked.TK and published numerous leaks of Windows 8 before the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 20th, 2014 at 9:04 pm

Receiving leaks from Microsoft? Don’t use Hotmail/Outlook.com!

The Seattle PI reported yesterday that a former Microsoft employee, Alex Kibkalo, was arrested for “theft of trade secrets”, stemming from his leaking pre-release Windows 8 information to a French blogger, known as Canouna, and concerned mainly with the theft …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 20th, 2014 at 1:05 pm

Office for iPad set for March 27 introduction?

Microsoft has been sending out invitations to an event set for March 27th in San Francisco, with opening remarks to be delivered by new CEO Satya Nadella, and rumored by the likes of The Verge and All About Microsoft…

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 17th, 2014 at 8:25 pm

OneNote, Surface, and Microsoft’s Brave New (free) world

It’s Monday morning and time for Microsoft to pound away once again at the news cycle. This time, the company made two major announcements, both of them well expected, but both interesting in their own rights. First, a set of …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 17th, 2014 at 10:35 am

Those million pre-ordered Nokia X’s in China don’t add up, sorry.

Earlier today Nokia “weibo’d” that the Nokia X had received over a million pre-orders for the first Android powered Nokia phone, and indeed it had, but that doesn’t mean that Nokia will sell anywhere near that many of the new …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile News
March 14th, 2014 at 9:47 pm
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