Microsoft isn’t too happy with the “post-PC” title Steve Jobs and others like to use for our increasingly tablet- and smartphone-centric world. With Jobs’ passion for everything sleek, thin and mobile, and consumers eating out of the palm of his hand, it seems like the PC giants of yore are being left in the dust.

Microsoft has revealed that Windows 8 will boast “robust” support for USB 3.0 devices, though it will continue to support old USB specifications.

Tracking software persisted after deleting cookie cache Microsoft has disabled an online tracking technology that a Stanford University researcher said allowed the company to track users on MSN.com, even after they deleted browser cookies and other identifiers.

Microsoft’s Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online have had their service restored following outages on Wednesday, August 17. For CRM Online, the issues reportedly included a performance slowdown to the point of being unusable. For Office 365, the status dashboard during the outage had indicated that “all users are unable to access their email, and [...]

Google announced earlier this week that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, primarily for Motorola’s intellectual property portfolio which includes more than 17,000 patents.While it may be a great move for Google, it will undoubtedly affect its competitors like Apple and Microsoft as well its Android device partners like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and [...]

Microsoft suffered an outage with its Office 365 online service Wednesday afternoon, according to the company’s Twitter feed and messages from customers.

Microsoft launched its new smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7, last year. Since the launch, it has received little interest for its phones. In the meantime, its main competitors, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, have seen tremendous growth and are dominating the smartphone OS market.Android now has 50% market share of the global smartphone market and [...]

Microsoft announced an open dialog between itself and the community for Windows 8, focusing on the engineering of the upcoming operating system.