
Mary Branscombe
Mary is a freelance business technology journalist who has written for the likes of ITPro, CIO, ZDNet, TechRepublic, The New Stack, The Register, and many other online titles, as well as national publications like the Guardian and Financial Times. She has also held editor positions at AOL’s online technology channel, PC Plus, IT Expert, and Program Now. In her career spanning more than three decades, the Oxford University-educated journalist has seen and covered the development of the technology industry through many of its most significant stages.
Mary has experience in almost all areas of technology but specialises in all things Microsoft and has written two books on Windows 8. She also has extensive expertise in consumer hardware and cloud services - mobile phones to mainframes. Aside from reporting on the latest technology news and trends, and developing whitepapers for a range of industry clients, Mary also writes short technology mysteries and publishes them through Amazon.
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Build 2016: Why Microsoft predicts a world of talking bots
Analysis Satya Nadella’s big vision for Microsoft is around intelligent conversations with machines
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Getting to a billion Windows lovers
In-depth Squaring the circle of making a platform company relevant cross-platform
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Business travel in the 21st century
In-depth How to make business travel less painful, more productive
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Microsoft widens the appeal of Visual Studio cross platform
In-depth Microsoft offers Visual Studio for free as well as announcing other key developments
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Microsoft StorSimple 8100 review
Reviews An unlimited storage array offering cloud that looks like a SAN and is firmly in the infrastructure camp
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Top ten best British tech inventions
Best From the computer to the World Wide Web, the iPod to the typewriter, a lot of modern technology started out in the UK
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Q&A: The Nokia renaissance
In-depth Following the release of the Lumia 800, Nokia has been reborn. We chat with the mobile giant's UK MD about how the company is turning things around.
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BBX BlackBerry Server brings security ruckus for CIOs
News Working with the new BlackBerry Server, BBX will secure enterprise data and provision enterprise apps without blocking consumer apps.
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RIM announces its next OS: BBX
News QNX, Android, HTML5, WebGL, Flash and open source: BBX-OS promises to support almost everything mobile except BlackBerry.
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Microsoft Windows Server 8 review: First Look
Reviews Microsoft has unveiled Windows Server 8 - but is there more to this upcoming server operating system than just the new Metro user interface? Mary Branscombe finds out in our sneak peek.
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Windows Server 8: Microsoft makes big virtualisation splash
News The next version of Windows Server commoditises storage and network hardware, whilst taking the fight to VMware.
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Microsoft Windows 8 review: First Look
Reviews Windows 8 aims to combine a touchscreen Windows Phone 7-style interface with a traditional full-power desktop. Mary Branscombe gets hands on to see if it’s a winning combination.
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Head to Head: Google Apps vs Microsoft Office 365
Vs Mary Branscombe compares the enterprise versions of both and her conclusions may surprise you...
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Windows InTune 2 goes into beta
News Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest version of its cloud-based PC management service, Windows InTune.
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Why Bing and BlackBerry make sense together
News 'BingBerry' is a sensible response to Google because Bing and RIM share more than an enemy.
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BlackBerry Bold 9900 review: First Look
Reviews Hardware-accelerated graphics and browsing come to the thinnest ever BlackBerry in the new touchscreen Bold, in addition to greater control over the security of business data. We find out whether the Bold 9900 lives up to its claims in this first look review...
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Biometric authentication: the key to keeping businesses and
In-depth You’re already paying for biometrics in business laptops, so is it time for your business to start using them?
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Microsoft Windows Intune review
Reviews Managing and protecting an office full of PCs doesn't necessarily entail the complications of Active Directory or domain joined accounts as Mary Branscombe discovers.
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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: First look
First look We take a look at the latest preview release of IE9 to see if it really is faster and more standards-compliant than other web browsers.
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Multimedia boost for Internet Explorer
News IE9 gains Canvas and HTML 5 video in platform preview 3, improves Acid 3 and SunSpider scores.
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Toshiba Libretto W100 review: First look
Reviews We take a look at Toshiba's dual screen Libretto W100 to see what all the fuss is about.
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Toshiba AC100 review: FIrst look
Reviews It was only unveiled yesterday, but we take a quick first look at the Toshiba AC100 to see what it brings to the table.
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Could your next IT project come from Brazil?
In-depth Brazil is emerging as an IT powerhouse, with attention from all the big names in tech such as Microsoft, Google and Intel.
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Roundup: the best new BlackBerry apps at WES 2010
News If you get the new Pearl 3G with 25MB of memory, what are the new business apps you’ll want on it?
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