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Microsoft Angers Gamers With Xbox One Restrictions

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 12 at 5:30 am PT

Microsoft Corp. has touched a nerve with gamers, and rival Sony Corp. hopes to exploit the situation.

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Software Developers Trim Costs on New Games

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 10 at 3:22 pm PT

A new generation of videogame consoles from Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. promise innovation on several fronts, including higher-fidelity visuals. But one thing they aren’t expected to bring is increased cost to software developers.

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PC Makers Fight Back Against Mobile Devices

Don Clark and Eva Dou, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 2 at 5:30 pm PT

Rocked by the mobile-device movement, personal-computer makers and their partners are planning a counterattack that leans heavily on two weapons: Lower prices and power consumption.

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Microsoft Prevails Against Google in ITC Xbox Case

Steven D. Jones, Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires in News on May 23 at 5:12 pm PT

A federal trade panel has ruled that Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox doesn’t infringe on wireless patents owned by Motorola Mobility, another in a series of legal decisions that could quiet patent litigation surrounding popular consumer electronic devices.

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Microsoft Creates “Yammer North” in Redmond to Learn New Software Tricks

Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 22 at 12:07 pm PT

Microsoft has been quietly operating a group inside its Redmond, Wash., headquarters called Yammer North in an effort to integrate Yammer into its vast software business, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

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Microsoft to Name New Software Windows 8.1, and It’s Free

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 14 at 11:45 am PT

Microsoft announced Tuesday the updated version of its Windows 8 operating system — which had been code-named Windows Blue — will be called Windows 8.1, and it will be available for free to encourage as many people as possible to take up the new software.

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Web Browsers Are Reinvented

Jessica E. Lessin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 14 at 9:41 am PT

Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications for how consumers work and entertain themselves online.

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Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 9 at 1:00 pm PT

As videogame fans await the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.’s next Xbox, questions about another piece hardware loom for the software giant.