Jason Ward

In a smartphone market that's rife with competition and entrenched rivals, Microsoft successfully built a passionate fan base for its mobile platform.

Microsoft's inclusion efforts have spanned hiring practices and inclusive product design. As the presenting sponsor for the 2018 Special Olympics it hopes to transform Seattle to a city of inclusion.

I was a diehard Microsoft enthusiast long before I joined Windows Central. That's why I wish a recent visit to a Microsoft Store could have gone better for me.

Today, Thursday, May 16th, 2019, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day; and Microsoft is committed to ensuring that its technology, from conception to production is built for everyone – including the approximate 650 million people living with disabilities.

In the wake of Microsoft's far-reaching inclusion efforts in hiring practices, product design, and company culture it is morbidly ironic that the company finds itself in the crosshairs of a potential class-action lawsuit for discrimination against women.

With Projects Fizzyo and Torino Microsoft is helping children with Cystic Fibrosis engage in treatment and teaching blind children to code.

Microsoft's unsuccessful mobile efforts have angered the fan base. That same group of loyalists are now taking that anger out on one another. Is the Windows phone fan base imploding?

Microsoft and Qualcomm are both on a mission to provide the tools others will use to create technology.

Smartphones have changed the face of personal computing. Google and Apple are marketing Chromebooks and iPads to optimize on that reality.

One thing that irks many passionate Windows phone fans more than almost anything else is Microsoft's apparent lack of passion for its mobile platform.

Does Microsoft have a mobile strategy? Yes, but to see it you must look beyond the yearly cycle governing the smartphone industry.

Android is the world's most used mobile OS, and Microsoft is the world's premiere software and platform company. To some, that sounds like a match made in heaven.

Microsoft's pitting Surface Go against Apple's newest iPad in the education sector. Here are some pros and cons.

Personal computing is consumer-driven, founded on a multi-devices experience and is approaching an ambiance. Without broad consumer presence Microsoft may miss the coming shift.

Microsoft's Your Phone app strives to keep your phone in your pocket.

Microsoft is committed to consumers. Just not in the way you may think.

The Surface phone hardware alone will not be Windows phone's savior. A multitude of ecosystem-supporting factors are important pieces to the mobile puzzle.

Microsoft's Augmented Reality headset, HoloLens, is headed to the battlefield to make U.S. troops more efficient. And not everyone is happy.

I've been using Windows phones for 12 years, and the Lumia 950 XL is still my daily driver. Here's why.

Respected analyst Walt Mossberg believes that the redefinition of the PC will be driven by Apple, not Microsoft. Mossberg has some valid points but also lacks perspective. Here's why.

Microsoft 365 connects the consumer/professional to Microsoft's ubiquitous computing strategy.

It may not always seem like it, but Microsoft has a mobile strategy. It's been unsuccessful, but it's still more or less on track.

Adding voice to always connected PCs may add dimension to computing and communication that further mergers smartphones (which are tablet PCs) and computers.

For many Microsoft watchers, the company's cloud focus has set it on a course toward inevitable irrelevance. That's a profoundly misguided assessment.

A foldable Continuum-enabled Surface "phone" may change the game for Microsoft, unless Samsung builds one first.