The Windows Phone 7.8 update will be launched in China in the “coming weeks,” a senior executive at Microsoft China has revealed.
The information comes from Microsoft’s vice president for the Greater China region in an interview with Chinese publication BJD.
The Windows Phone 7.8 update is expected to curb anger from current Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone owners as their devices will not get the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system launched by Microsoft just this …

Microsoft isn’t too keen on letting crap go to waste.
The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has announced that it will soon be testing a modular data center ran on biogas from wastewater.
The development was first noticed by Technology Review in a report that says Microsoft “has gotten approval to test a modular data center run from a biogas-powered fuel cell located at a wastewater treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming.”
According to the publication, local officials have agreed to …

Initial sales figures for the newly-launched Windows 8 operating system are below what Microsoft has expected, a report notes.
The information comes from the well-connected Paul Thurrott who cites an unnamed source he says is one of his “most trusted sources at Microsoft”.
In his report, Mr. Thurrott says that “Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft’s internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing.” [Emphasis added.]
 
However, it seems …

Look forward to more hardware coming directly from Microsoft.
That’s according to comments made by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer recently who hinted that Microsoft will continue to pump out hardware after its release of the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT.
In a report from Reuters, the Microsoft CEO is quoted as saying: “Do I anticipate that partners of ours will build the lion’s share of all Windows devices over the next five years? The answer is, …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a recent interview has let loose criticisms against Windows Phone rivals Android and iOS.
The remarks were made by Ballmer in an interview on Wednesday in Santa Clara, California, TechCrunch reports.
According to the Microsoft CEO, the Android mobile operating system and its ecosystem is “wild”.
Furthermore, he says it is “uncontrolled” and susceptible to malware.
On the other end of the spectrum, he says that the iOS mobile operating system is too …

As Microsoft has announced the abrupt and unexpected departure of Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, several reports are coming in about how the man worked inside Microsoft.
Microsoft tried to paint the departure as amicable but anecdotes from Microsoft employees describe Sinofsky as “abrasive”, as The New York Times puts it.
In a report, the publication tells of one such time Sinofsky displayed callous behavior.
According to the Times, the former Windows division boss once did not prepare a …

Motorola wants Microsoft to pay royalties for the recently-released Microsoft Surface tablet.
According to a report from GeekWire, Motorola has asked the judge in their ongoing lawsuit at the U.S. District Court in Seattle to consider new and upcoming devices from the Surface-maker which implement technology patented by the company.
That includes the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT, the Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 and, if the Redmond, Washington-based software giant does release it, a …

Never shy of voicing his opinion, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has expressed concern that Microsoft is out-innovating the company he helped bring to life.
Speaking with Andrew Keen of TechCrunch on the sidelines of TEDx Brussels, The Woz said that the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has shown “more of the type of innovation where you see something and you say, ‘Whoa, they really changed things drastically, whoa, they aren’t really even going in the same direction as everyone …

Microsoft shocked the world just now after with news that Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has left the company “effective immediately”.
Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s wording in his full letter to employees about the departure of the man who just launched Windows 8 paints the parting of ways as amicable, the timing of Sinofsky’s move leads one to wonder whether that’s really the case.
Microsoft has just released Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and it just released its first ever …

Microsoft is allegedly in the early stages of planning a new 7-inch game-centric tablet called the Xbox Surface.
The rumor started with a report from The Verge citing multiple unnamed sources “familiar with plans within Redmond”.
According to the publication, Microsoft has already begun “initial hardware planning for an Xbox Surface”.
The new rumor comes after Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, revealed after the release of the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT that Microsoft plans on making …