Microsoft’s new web browser reported to have Cortana built-in

January 10, 2015 | konknaijaboy

Last week, word leaked that Microsoft is hard at work on a new web browser for Windows 10 and that it is not going to be Internet Explorer. More details of that project — codenamed Spartan — started to eke … Read More

Microsoft Has Officially Cut Nokia’s Brand From Its Most Popular Smartphone Line

October 24, 2014 | konknaijaboy

Microsoft and Nokia have officially announced that the Finnish smartphone maker will no longer be a part of the branding for Lumia Windows Phone devices.

Tuula Rytilä, Microsoft’s senior vice president of marketing for phones, shared the news via Nokia’s Conversations … Read More

The Clippers sale is now complete: Steve Ballmer is in, and Donald Sterling, at long last, is out

August 12, 2014 | konknaijaboy

It’s official: Steve Ballmer is now the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and Donald Sterling is out of the NBA.

Shortly after Bloomberg News reported Tuesday afternoon that the $2 billion sale of the franchise to the … Read More

Why Microsoft is getting into TV shows

April 30, 2014 | konknaijaboy

(CNN) — Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott. John Goodman and Kevin Spacey. “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau and “Robot Chicken” creator Seth Green.

It’s a diverse list of entertainers with a pile of Oscars, Emmys and Pulitzer Prizes between them, not … Read More

Microsoft to transform learning in Rwanda

March 7, 2014 | konknaijaboy

Microsoft and the Ministry of Education Republic of Rwanda have signed an agreement to transform learning, further innovation and develop employment skills among students and educators in Rwanda, through Microsoft’s Partners in Learning programme.

Microsoft Country Manager for East and … Read More

WHERE NOKIA WENT WRONG

September 4, 2013 | konknaijaboy

Nokia’s agreement on Tuesday to sell its handset business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion is something of a minor business coup for Nokia, since a year from now that business might well turn out to have been worth nothing. It … Read More