The day after Microsoft's announcement that it will lay off 18,000 employees, more specifics are coming into focus, including information about what's happening in the Operating Systems Group.
On the heels of its release of a first version of Windows Azure toolkit for Windows Phone, Microsoft has created a comparable Azure toolkit for Apple's iOS -- and has another in the works for Android.
A Microsoft official confirms the company is planning to trim the number of different versions of Windows in its portfolio.
A newly unsealed legal document indicates that Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion in Android patent-licensing royalties in 2013 alone.
The next version of Internet Explorer that will be included in Windows Threshold could get extension support, as well as task-completion smarts from Bing.
HTC launched a Windows Phone version of its HTC One on Verizon -- its first Windows Phone flagship in two years.
In the mobile market -- at least the higher-volume, lower-cost part of it -- the new Microsoft is looking to make money on services, not operating systems.
Microsoft's Bing is now the source of 11.5 percent of all U.S. searches, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Windows Mobile's marketshare continued to plummet, according to comScore, and is now at 15.7 percent among U.S. smartphone subscribers.
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) show kicks off on February 15 in Barcelona, and Microsoft will be there, (hopefully) showing off various new mobile wares and sharing more details on its evolving mobile strategy. For those following along at home, here's a refresher, organized by codename, as to what to watch/listen for next week.
Microsoft posted to the Microsoft Download Center a Windows Mobile 6.5 software development kit (SDK) on January 22. Shortly afterward, the company pulled the SDK. There are reports that Microsoft may have pulled back because the downloadable SDK included the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 bits.