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Opinion: A closer look at the Microsoft write-down – and the death of Windows Phone

Introduction and Ballmer’s folly Microsoft is a company on the edge, not of disaster per se but of a choice between what it could be and what it will be. Under the stewardship of Satya Nadella, the company has, at least from the perspective of an outsider, progressed more in a single year than it did under the latter half-decade of Steve Ballmer’s reign, both in terms of culture (which,

Opinion: A closer look at the Microsoft write-down – and the death of Windows Phone

Introduction and Ballmer’s folly Microsoft is a company on the edge, not of disaster per se but of a choice between what it could be and what it will be. Under the stewardship of Satya Nadella, the company has, at least from the perspective of an outsider, progressed more in a single year than it did under the latter half-decade of Steve Ballmer’s reign, both in terms of culture (which,

Opinion: A closer look at the Microsoft write-down – and the death of Windows Phone

Introduction and Ballmer’s folly Microsoft is a company on the edge, not of disaster per se but of a choice between what it could be and what it will be. Under the stewardship of Satya Nadella, the company has, at least from the perspective of an outsider, progressed more in a single year than it did under the latter half-decade of Steve Ballmer’s reign, both in terms of culture (which,

Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Windows Phone's on life support, Russia's on selfie watch

If we were to describe the past seven days in a word, that word would be “week” – and if we were to describe that word in another word, it’d be “trouble”. Windows Phone’s hit the skids, Apple’s Watch might be heading that way too, there’s a rumpus over at Reddit and Flash is in a pickle too. Plus: bears! It’s week in tech! Microsoft says ByePhone Remember last week’s

Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Windows Phone's on life support, Russia's on selfie watch

If we were to describe the past seven days in a word, that word would be “week” – and if we were to describe that word in another word, it’d be “trouble”. Windows Phone’s hit the skids, Apple’s Watch might be heading that way too, there’s a rumpus over at Reddit and Flash is in a pickle too. Plus: bears! It’s week in tech! Microsoft says ByePhone Remember last week’s

Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Windows Phone's on life support, Russia's on selfie watch

If we were to describe the past seven days in a word, that word would be “week” – and if we were to describe that word in another word, it’d be “trouble”. Windows Phone’s hit the skids, Apple’s Watch might be heading that way too, there’s a rumpus over at Reddit and Flash is in a pickle too. Plus: bears! It’s week in tech! Microsoft says ByePhone Remember last week’s

Google is building the ultimate spam-killing AI

Google engineers have cooked up a new way for Gmail spam filters to learn what mail you want and what you don’t. It involves ‘large scale brain simulations’. In a post on the Gmail blog, product manager Sri Harsha Somanchi wrote that less than 0.1% of the email in an average Gmail inbox is spam, and the false positive rate is even lower – at just 0.05%. “Even still, Gmail

Google is building the ultimate spam-killing AI

Google engineers have cooked up a new way for Gmail spam filters to learn what mail you want and what you don’t. It involves ‘large scale brain simulations’. In a post on the Gmail blog, product manager Sri Harsha Somanchi wrote that less than 0.1% of the email in an average Gmail inbox is spam, and the false positive rate is even lower – at just 0.05%. “Even still, Gmail

Google is building the ultimate spam-killing AI

Google engineers have cooked up a new way for Gmail spam filters to learn what mail you want and what you don’t. It involves ‘large scale brain simulations’. In a post on the Gmail blog, product manager Sri Harsha Somanchi wrote that less than 0.1% of the email in an average Gmail inbox is spam, and the false positive rate is even lower – at just 0.05%. “Even still, Gmail

Review: Lenovo LaVie Z 360

Introduction and design In the race to make laptops smaller, thinner and lighter than ever, 2015 has been an exciting year. Dell brought out a stunning machine with the Dell XPS 13, squeezing a 13-inch screen into an 11-inch frame. Apple, on the other hand, sought to reinvent the laptop with a brand new 12-inch MacBook, which squeezed an iPhone 6-sized logic board into its all-aluminum frame while introducing a