At the first moment in which rumors about the future of the Xbox 360 and its coming replacement have begun to swirl, Microsoft has gone and stuck its foot in the door by claiming that the console is not going anywhere fast. In fact, in arecent interview, Microsoft explained that it sees the device as roughly halfway through its lifecycle: We see it as about halfway through. But yes you are right, Xbox is defying the normal curve you might expect....

“If you want something done right, do it yourself,” the saying goes. That’s the strategy Microsoft appears to be taking with its newSurface Laptop SE, by far the cheapest PC the company has ever made (the excellent Surface Laptop Gostarted at $549). It’s a shot across the bow to Google’s Chromebooks, with which Microsoft is taking matters into its own hands, rather than relying exclusively on partners making budget devices....

Microsoft is a company that enjoys to use its vast wealth as a weapon. The company has a bigger advertising budget than other company’sentirebudget. Today, we bring you a new Microsoft toy. Yes, Microsoft has a new tool, er, toy, that it is using at conferences as part of its never-ending PR process. But this is no ordinary toy, it is a 234 inch touch screen display. Not a 23.4 inch screen, atwo hundred and thirty-fourinch screen....

Microsoft’s recent shopping spree reached a new climax this week with the announcement of the$19.7-billion acquisitionof Nuance, a company that provides speech recognition and conversational AI services. Nuance is best known for its deep learning voice transcription service, which is very popular in the healthcare sector. The two companies had already beenworking closely before the acquisition. Nuance had built several of its products on top of Microsoft’s Azure cloud. And Microsoft had been using Nuance’s Dragon service in its Cloud for Healthcare solution, launched last year in the midst of the pandemic....

I was pretty hyped about Microsoft’s big Windows 11 reveal today. I’m a self-proclaimed Windows fanboy — we exist! — and after the company claimed Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows,” the news of Windows 11 hit like a nerdy Christmas. So I fully expected my first article of the day to be a straight piece about the new features coming to the OS. Instead, I’m writing this one....