Whether you're in the camp that believes that Microsoft is too dependent on its cash cows or the one that thinks that Microsoft is spreading itself too thin, it's worth considering which product will be the next billion-dollar baby in Redmond.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 09/01/2010
Even if Steve Ballmer is going to be replaced (doubtful), it won't be by Bill.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 08/01/2010
For years, Microsoft has insisted that the browser is an integral part of the operating system, yet the company's current strategies with IE 6 and IE 9 make that argument an absurdity.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2010
Microsoftis driving its customers toward online services, but do its customers really want to ride along?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 06/01/2010
Microsoft is taking a lot of risks with its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 05/01/2010
It's been almost three years since Microsoft threw down the gauntlet by claiming that open source and Linux software infringed on 235 of the company's patents.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 04/01/2010
It's looking more and more like there's a battle between the Windows Presentation Foundation team and the Silverlight team -- and Silverlight is winning.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 03/01/2010
It took years to build the Windows empire, and Microsoft won't stand idly by watching it be dismantled.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 02/01/2010
Microsoft has given up trying to out-Google Google and is trying instead to carve out a new search niche.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 01/01/2010
As Microsoft gets older, can the company continue to create products that younger users want to buy?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 12/01/2009
"Three screens and the cloud" is the updated take on Microsoft's Software plus Services strategy.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/01/2009
It might surprise you to know which Microsoft products are poised to make a big splash in 2010.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/01/2009
If left unchecked, Microsoft's Apple fixation could be the company's undoing.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 09/01/2009
Microsoft's ambitious product-launch schedule requires a delicate juggling act.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 08/01/2009
The house that Gates built? More like a house divided.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 06/26/2009