Bill Gates has given up his Windows phone. HP is pulling production of its flagship Windows handset. Now Microsoft has finally seen the writing on the wall — there aren’t enough people using Windows 10 Mobile or enough apps to make it viable. Corporate vice president of Windows 10 and head of Microsoft’s “PC-Tablet-Phone” division, Joe …
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Microsoft pulled support for Windows phones earlier this summer, but you know the one-time iPhone and Android competitor is truly dead when Microsoft’s founder admits on TV that he’s now using Android. “The phone that I have, recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone with a lot of Microsoft software,” Bill Gates told Fox News Sunday host Chris …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An iPhone? Don’t be silly. Yana Paskova / Getty Images They were rivals. They were friends. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did much to define what the tech industry is today. Does that mean, though, that the Microsoft co-founder has softened a touch and started …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The president wants the web muffled. Alex Wong / Getty Images After an improvised bomb was detonated on a subway train in London on Friday, the US president offered his solutions on Twitter. More than 20 people were injured near Parsons Green subway station, in what …
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Amazon is now so big it wants a second headquarters. The world’s largest online retailer said Thursday it plans to build a corporate base in a major North American city that will be an equal to its existing Seattle headquarters. It expects to spend over $5 billion on the project, called Amazon HQ2, and hire as many as 50,000 people …
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History has repeated itself for Amazon. Following a series of strong quarterly results, the company has yet again shrugged off Wall Street’s expectations and posted an unexpectedly low profit. The clear culprit was — yet again — Amazon’s penchant for shoveling billions more dollars into its businesses to amp up their growth. In its earnings report Thursday, the company said …
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It’s already been 15 years since Microsoft debuted the Xbox. Bill Gates came on stage at the Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2000 to unveil the original Xbox, which was released in the US on November 15, 2001. It’s also worthy of note that Halo: Combat Evolved was launched at the same time and was crucial to the game …
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Chatting and collaborating with colleagues used to be all about watercoolers and whiteboards. These days it’s more about videoconferencing, email and at least one form of instant messaging. Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the work-chat bandwagon with the launch of Teams at a New York event Wednesday. Teams brings together chats, notes and planning with the intention …
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