Kip Kniskern
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Is Windows 11 upon us? Two days ago, Microsoft announced a June 24th event to unveil "what's next for Windows." So far, we don't know much more than that, but of course there's rampant speculation. Let's take a look at ... Read more
We first came to know Microsoft engineer Dona Sarkar when she took over the role of head of the Windows Insider program back in June of 2016, taking over from Gabe Aul. Since then, she moved on to work on ... Read more
Microsoft is about to kick off its second annual virtual only developers conference, scheduled to run May 25-27 and starting at 8am Pacific Time with the keynote including CEO Satya Nadella and featuring news and information on Azure, Teams, Windows, ... Read more
Microsoft launched the Android Powered "Surface Phone," the Surface Duo, for an original base price of $1399 (or $1499 for the 256GB model). Since then, it's been officially discounted to $999/1099, but third party sellers have it for less than ... Read more
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Discord, the gaming focused chat, audio, and video platform, has ended talks with Microsoft on a reported $10 billion acquisition deal. The talks "have ended without a deal, though it is possible they ... Read more
Word got out yesterday that Microsoft was in final talks to acquire AI software company Nuance Communications, and today the company made it official, announcing a $19.7 billion all cash deal for the AI software company. Nuance's CEO Mark Benjamin ... Read more
As you may know, we made some changes to OnMSFT.com and Azure this month, and as is normal, we hit a few snags along the way. After some fine tuning, though, we think we're getting close to getting it dialed ... Read more
For the past 7 years, Gavriella Schuster has led Microsoft's commercial partner efforts, a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and a well known keystone at Microsoft for both commercial partners and newshounds. Yesterday, in a LinkedIn post, Schuster announced that ... Read more
As it turns out, we've been hosting OnMSFT.com on Azure for a little more than two years, running on an Ubuntu 18.04 VM. Since it has been past time to update Ubuntu (and MySQL and PHP etc), it seemed like ... Read more
During the Microsoft Ignite livestream, CVP Jeff Sandquist revealed that "Build is coming in May." Not a huge revelation, as the conference has traditionally been in April or May, but so far Microsoft hasn't said much about this year's virtual ... Read more
Big news: Panos Panay is pumped! Today at a mini session at Ignite, Microsoft's Chief Product Officer for Windows and Devices, joined Roanne Sones in a "fireside chat" about Windows. While much of the quick 15 minute session centered on ... Read more
This morning, Microsoft spent most of the Ignite 2021 keynote unveiling Microsoft Mesh, the new Virtual Reality platform taking HoloLens and virtual reality to a whole new level. Now, after the announcements are over, Microsoft has released a set of ... Read more
Steven Sinofsky had a long career at Microsoft, joining the company after finishing his Master's Degree in 1989. He started out as a technical assistant to Bill Gates, rising to lead the Office division, and then becoming president of Windows. ... Read more
As in all organizations, changes occur as executives move on to better opportunities (as in the cases of Brad Anderson and Julia White), or to retirement, as in the case of Executive Vice President Kurt DelBene, who will be leaving ... Read more
This week, Tom Warren over at The Verge wrote that it looks like "Microsoft now has a true answer to Chrome OS." He goes on to show off a number of features now out in the public thanks to a ... Read more
Larry Hyrb, known far and wide by his Xbox gamertag Major Nelson, is celebrating 20 years at Microsoft. Starting out before that even as a vendor managing communities for MSN (which was far more a social network than a news ... Read more
Microsoft's MSPAC, or political action committee, has long been controversial at least among some Microsoft employees. The PAC donates to political causes, with a steering committee making decisions on where donations, some to controversial politicians, goes. While the employees can ... Read more
Microsoft's Excel is one of the stalwarts of the company's business tools, used by millions around the world for everything from creating shopping lists to running multi-million dollar businesses. First introduced way back in 1985 (and preceded by another spreadsheet ... Read more
Tomorrow, November 26th 2020, is the Thanksgiving US holiday. As such, and throughout this week, news coming out of Microsoft has and will slow down, as the company pauses to celebrate and gather (hopefully mostly virtually) with their families. We're ... Read more
This past July, Microsoft's Business Development lead, Peggy Johnson, left the company to become CEO at Magic Leap. Today, the company has announced her replacement, former CEO of McAfee, Christopher Young. Young will report directly to CEO Satya Nadella, he ... Read more
Microsoft is pushing the Surface Duo's ability to function in multiple "modes," and have chosen former Seattle Seahawk running back Marshawn Lynch, famous for his "Beast Mode" style of running, to feature the Duo in its latest ad: https://youtu.be/LcjF3sJtow4 The ... Read more