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Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART The history of digital technology is full of innovations that are praised for having changed the world: the Mac, Microsoft Windows, the Netscape Navigator…
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be…
Common Sense By JAMES B. STEWART When Microsoft stock was at a record high in 1999, and its market capitalization was nearly $620 billion, the notion that Apple Computer would…
Sure, Gmail has its converts, and many millennials shun email entirely for iMessage, Snapchat and other alternatives. But the world still has plenty of power email users and, for them,…
Microsoft this week unveiled HoloLens, an augmented-reality headset that overlays text and images on the real world and, in particular, anchors them to precise locations in space, as if they…
–Xbox won the holiday season, beating the Sony (SNE) PlayStation 4. Microsoft sold 6.6 million Xbox Ones, which is more than it sold a year ago. But Xbox revenue was…
David Carr THE MEDIA EQUATION Microsoft made a big announcement last week, revealing that Windows, a lucrative legacy franchise, was about to be unleashed into the physical environment through a…
The short answer is: Probably not. The reasons show just how big their ambitions have become. First, Qualcomm, which makes semiconductors for smartphones, invested with Richard Branson’s Virgin Group on…
Growth in on-demand services helps customers improve their lives by finding somebody else to clear out the garage, put up the shelves or run errands. But do the people handling…
Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, explained how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds thanks to one simple change. “The reality is, the more there are names, the…
Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Kaspersky Lab, said there’s both good and bad news about cybersecurity. The good news is that leaders are starting to understand the issues with cybersecurity…
PATH President and CEO Steve Davis stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday to share how he and others are working to help the fight against the Ebola virus….
Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday, where he spoke about the book he wrote with his colleague Erik Brynjolfsson…
Microsoft International President Jean-Philippe Courtois didn’t hesitate when asked what new technology makes him say, “Wow.” “We presented something very cool. It’s called HoloLens,” he told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski…
Education for Employment’s president and CEO Jamie McAuliffe, along with founder and chair Ron Bruder, sat down with HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday where they discussed youth unemployment. Bruder…
But Microsoft understands that a lot of people still want to use Office the old-fashioned way. For them, Microsoft will release a new version of Office called Office 2016 in…
Related: Microsoft’s insane holographic vision of the future After an on-stage demonstration of the sleek, wraparound black glasses, Microsoft gave reporters four hands-on demos of the device at its Redmond,…
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a headset that will allow people to interact with holographic images, allowing them to play video games and build 3-D models. The headset,…
No more Internet Explorersorta. Microsoft is expected to introduce a new, stripped down browser that has been codenamed “Spartan.” The new browser will ship with Windows 10, and it will…
In one scene, a woman wearing HoloLens needs help fixing her leaking sink. A man in another city sitting in front of a tablet sees what she is seeing, makes…
No more Internet Explorersorta. Microsoft is expected to introduce a new, stripped down browser that has been codenamed “Spartan.” The new browser will ship with Windows 10, and it will…