Vendors and Providers

Satya Nadella toes the Ballmer line in first public comments as CEO

He reiterates the company's strategy of becoming a provider of hardware devices and cloud services

IBM questions the performance of D-Wave’s quantum computer

IBM charges that a D-Wave quantum computer run by Google actually relies on good old-fashioned classical physics

SAP lays out its strategy for growth, with HANA at the forefront

The HANA in-memory computing platform will figure into everything SAP does, executives say

Apple, Microsoft Team With White House to Close Tech Gap in Schools

ConnectED brings in $2B in federal funds for high-speed Internet at schools

Obama announces commitments at Maryland middle school; tech firms pledge $750M

One out of four U.S households not online in ’12

Rural, poorer Americans still need Internet access

Bill Gates steps aside as chairman, becomes Nadella’s consigliore

Company's long-running chairman relinquishes job to John Thompson, a former Symantec CEO

Attack of the BYOD-Killing MDM Software

Daunting challenges await Nadella as he takes over from Ballmer

They include the future of Windows, uncertainty over the Surface tablet, the Nokia acquisition and the One Microsoft reorganization

New Microsoft CEO is a mark of maturity: Is that a good thing?

Naming Satya Nadella CEO shows the company has grown up. But in the tech world, maturity is not always a virtue.