March, 2014

More Senior Leadership changes announced as new CEO Satya Nadella tweaks “One Microsoft”

This morning, in an all-hands email released by Microsoft, new CEO Satya Nadella announced a number of changes to his Senior Leadership team and to “One Microsoft”, Microsoft’s latest reorg. Scott Guthrie, who has been acting head of the …

Session list for Build 2014 is now online

Build 2014, Microsoft’s almost annual developer’s confererence, takes place this Wednesday through Friday, and Microsoft has (finally) released the session list for the conference. The sessions, as usual, will be available (usually within 24 hours) on demand via Microsoft’s Channel …

Microsoft changes email privacy policy after backlash

Last week, in relation to the arrest of Alex Kibkalo on theft of trade secret charges, his indictment revealed that Microsoft had accessed personal Hotmail emails in trying to find the source of the thefts. Microsoft then issued a pair

Office for iPad available now

As announced in a webcast this morning, Office for iPad, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, is available now via the Apple App Store. Microsoft has also posted a number of new posts on todays news, including:

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Microsoft introduces Office for iPad with “freemium” pricing

In a just concluded webcast from San Francisco (the on demand webcast is already up if you missed the ~40 minute presentation), new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (he’s been on the job 52 days, he announced, “but who’s counting”), announced …

Satya Nadella first public speech – watch the webcast

At 10am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -8, in just less than an hour from this posting), Satya Nadella will speak at a press event in front of gathered journalists in San Francisco, reportedly to announce the introduction of Office for …

After “Microsoft” Azure, should Windows Phone be renamed?

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was renaming “Windows Azure” to “Microsoft Azure”, the latest in a series of moves to consolidate Microsoft’s branding and clean up the Windows brand. Followers of this blog know that Azure is only the …

Nokia, still an outsider, plans a press event at Build

In just over a week, Microsoft’s Build Conference will convene in San Francisco, expected to unveil Windows 8.1 update, Windows Phone 8.1, perhaps an appearance by new CEO Satya Nadella, and now an appearance, still on the outside looking in, …

Nokia expects Microsoft deal to close in April, still awaits regulatory approval in Asia

In a press release issued Monday morning (8:00, CET +1) in Espoo, Finland, Nokia announced that it now expects its deal with Microsoft to transfer “substantially all of its Devices and Services business” to close in April 2014. That makes

Did Microsoft Scroogle itself? Some thoughts, and the company response to the Kibkala/Canouna leaks story

Earlier today, we wrote about the arrest yesterday of Alex Kibkala, a former Microsoft employee who apparently leaked not only Windows 8 pre-release information to blogger “Canouna” who ran WinUnleaked.TK and published numerous leaks of Windows 8 before the …