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  • The AI-first world requires new products

    By Martin Recke

    It's not enough to simply add an Alexa skill to an existing product, like it wasn't enough to make your website responsive or launch a mobile app without changing anything else. AI-first means reimagining your product for a world driven by AI and voice interfaces.

  • Surface Studio: Microsoft’s beautiful bid for the creative market

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft has just unveiled a beautiful, but incredibly niche, PC for the creative industries. Has it turned itself into an innovation powerhouse?

  • Finding Productivity

    By Juliane Hennig

    Mobile working boosts productivity say almost 70 percent of knowledge workers according to a survey conducted at NEXT15. Find out more on how we (will) work

  • Learning to Love Productivity – From Information to Knowledge Work

    By Thorsten Hübschen

    We need to reinvent the way we work and redefine productivity by matching the variables technology, time, man and space. Guest post by Thorsten Hübschen.

  • Augmented reality crime scenes – when business tech gets exciting

    By Adam Tinworth

    UK police forces are looking at deploying Microsoft technology to visualise crime scenes. Why don't we get more excited about business technology?

  • Internet Explorer RIP: the disruptor disrupted

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer, which was once king of the web browser market. How the mighty fall.

  • The workplace of 2025: a Microsoft productivity vision

    By Adam Tinworth

    Can wearables, touch interfaces and pervasive computing change the world of work? Microsoft is exploring the future of productivity.

  • Computers start beating humans at image recognition

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft's researchers have manage to craft image recognition software that beats humans on a reference set of images.

  • Nokia’s back in the mobile game – with an Android tablet

    By Adam Tinworth

    Post-Microsoft, Nokia is back in the mobile faster than expected - but with a curiously familiar-looking tablet…

  • Microsoft sets Office free on mobile

    By Adam Tinworth

    Surprising development of the day: Microsoft just made Microsoft Office free on iOS and Android: Microsoft’s Office suite…

  • Microsoft Band: on the boundary of smartphone and fitness tracker

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft has unexpectedly joined the wearable and quantified self markets with a new fitness band that muscles in on smartphone territory.

  • NEXT Up: essential reads you might have missed

    By Adam Tinworth

    Google and Microsoft's heads speak, Taylor Swift talks tech, and Britain contemplates deep linking into your inline activity…

  • Microsoft after Windows: a new normal for the company

    By Adam Tinworth

    The last week has seen a transformation of Microsoft: Windows relegated to just one product, a more open approach to other platforms, and great new software. Will it be enough?

  • Satya Nadella: rebuilding Microsoft for the New Normal

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft was the powerhouse of the last age of tech. Can its new CEO make it fit for the shifting landscape that is the New Normal?

  • Nokia’s tablet: where might it fly?

    By Adam Tinworth

    Nokia launched a beautiful new tablet last week - not that you'd notice amongst the Apple noise. Could the design of the device hint at a way for Microsoft to establish itself in tablets?

  • Ballmer’s exit: he was the wrong man, playing the wrong game

    By Adam Tinworth

    The inevitable has happened: Steve Ballmer is exiting Microsoft, which is a fading giant in the technology game. Has he poisoned the well for his successor?

  • Microsoft’s last bid for tech dominance

    By Adam Tinworth

    Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled a major reorganisation designed to allow it to compete in every sector of the tech market with a unified Windows experience. Can this possibly word?

  • The new Era

    At NEXT13 Peter Jäger, member of the management board of Microsoft, talked about the new era of Microsoft and it’s changing position in the mobile industry.

  • Microsoft and the challenge of the conservative mainstream

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft's changes to Windows 8 in the forthcoming Windows 8.1 have some suggesting that they're failing. But have they found the right strategy for selling to customers who don't like change?

  • Windows 8: the first truly digital interface?

    By Adam Tinworth

    Can a different paradigm of mobile computer use get any traction in the market? Let's hope so - because Microsoft is the only one trying.

  • Amazon: It’s Services, not Hardware

    By Martin Recke

    In the beginning was the Hardware, and the Hardware came from Apple and IBM, and the Hardware was Apple and IBM. Then came the Software, and with the Software came Microsoft. IBM withdraw and left the Hardware to Dell and HP. Microsoft dominated the Software, and Apple got to the brink of bankruptcy.

  • Surface: Microsoft fights for a digital future

    By Adam Tinworth

    Microsoft's Surface tablet may be the single most important initiative for the company's future. It has to win the battle for enterprise tablets.

  • Jens Garberding – How UI Design Can Help Managing Chaos

    Not long ago, our digital desktops looked like a simple digitisation of our analog desks. Today GUIs use a “metro-style design language”, which is universally understandable and stripped off unnecessary information, Jens Garberding explains in his talk at NEXT Berlin 2012.

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