Along with Toshiba, Microsoft is a big backer of HD DVD. But with Warner’s siding exclusively with Blu-ray Disc, some Xbox faithful look to Microsoft to answers regarding the high-definition future of the console. While Microsoft isn’t about to flip-flop to Blu-ray Disc any time soon, the company’s gaming group expressed that it will consider [...]
Bill Gates, who built his fortune equipping the personal computer, predicts that the keyboard and mouse will soon become relics. The founder of Microsoft Corp used his swansong to the technology industry on Sunday to spell out a vision of a “digital decade” of telephones, televisions and cars that respond to voice and touch.
Microsoft has offered to buy the Norwegian search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values it at about $1.2bn (£607m). The price is 42% above Fast’s closing share price on 4 January and the shares have risen close to the offer level. Fast’s board of directors have recommended that shareholders accept [...]
BANGKOK – U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. is moving deeper into the global health-care market with an agreement to buy the assets of a Thailand-based company that provides a package of clinical and back-office software, according to Microsoft officials. The Thai company, privately-held Global Care Solutions Thailand Ltd., designed and developed its software in collaboration [...]
