Come on, Microsoft.
Redmond finally issued a statement today in response to Google's decision to cut off Exchange ActiveSync support to personal, non-enterprise users — a decision that renders Windows Phone effectively unable to handle contacts and calendars stored in Google's cloud.
A bad situation made worse
Microsoft has issued a fresh update to its Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview today. Along with improvements for the keyboard autocomplete / autocorrect and toast notifications for Windows Live Messenger buddies, Microsoft says it is temporarily...
Ahead of CES next week, Samsung has announced two new models at the top of its PC lineup. The new Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra bring a lot of horsepower to Samsung's lineup — they join the Series 7 Slate and Series 7 Gamer as the company's flagship laptops, with everything now optimized and tuned for Windows 8.
The Series 7 Chronos is aimed at pros and offers up to 1TB of hard drive...
We knew that R2 studios, a startup from the creators of the Slingbox that was focused on home automation solutions, had been courting acquisition offers from the likes of Apple and Google — but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft was the company that was able to close the deal. The news breaks less than a week after Blake Krikorian, one of the founders of id8 Group R2 Studios Inc., stepped down from the Board of Directors at Amazon.
The price of the deal was not disclosed, but according to the WSJ Microsoft acquired several patents in the exchange that cover controlling various electronic devices. The report also states that R2 Studios had been working on different ways to distribute and display content on televisions, a focus that lines up nicely with Microsoft's ambitions to make the Xbox the center of the living...
Microsoft continues to invest in the future of Xbox
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Microsoft has officially responded to Google's planned Gmail ActiveSync removal in a statement issued to The Verge today. The company says it has been left "surprised and disappointed" by Google's decision that will affect the syncing of personal Gmail contacts and calendar for new WIndows Phone...
Microsoft originally voiced its concerns over a lack of a full Windows Phone YouTube app nearly two years ago, but the software giant has decided to resurface its complaint as 2013 gets underway. Microsoft's Dave Heiner posted a fresh blog post on...
It looks like $21 million in Intel cash and a few promising prototypes weren't enough to convince manufacturers to build eye-controlled tablets quite yet. Tobii, the company behind the eye-tracking Gaze technology we sampled at last year's CES — and again at CeBIT — has...
