Microsoft 11806 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy.

Microsoft 11806 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft's scheduled unveiling of new Surface tablets next week is not a last-chance moment for the company's hardware dreams, analysts said, countering a theme popular on the Web.

Microsoft 11806 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Bowing to pressure from the Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft today announced that it would sell a less expensive version of its Xbox One console that matches the PS4 price by dropping the Kinect motion sensor. This new Xbox One will become available in June and will cost $400.