Microsoft's upcoming entertainment and cloud services platform console could run seven times faster and dish up Blu-Ray.
Nokia has released its fourth quarter financial report for 2011.
Microsoft has announced seven new countries that will be added to the 'supported' list for the pubCenter and Microsoft Advertising service, which will enable Windows Phone developers in said countries to begin earning revenue from in-app advertising.
In a new post on the Windows Live blog site, Microsoft gives its reasons while Gmail users should switch over to Microsoft's Hotmail service as well as showing how to make that switch.
Microsoft is moving steadily ahead with its plan to enable Linux to run on its Windows Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft has tweaked its Hotmail for Android implementation to create one that is customized for the Kindle Fire.
The Xbox 720 could be with us in October 2013 if reports that its new, super-charged chipset have entered production are true.
Microsoft has announced that there will not be a MIX Developer conference this year. Instead, Microsoft will merge the spring conference for web developers and designers into the company's next major developer's conference that will come about in the coming year.
Rumor alert: Might the coming Windows Phone 8 operating system have even more in common with Windows 8, architecturally, than the OS kernel itself?
Microsofts SQL Server 2012 database will launch on March 7.
Microsoft has announced that it is looking into fixing video playback problems on the Xbox 360, which have occurred ever since the console was given the Metro dashboard update.
Nokia plans to launch a Windows Phone 7 handset for the Chinese market in the first half of this year, positioning itself to be among the first companies to officially bring Microsoft's mobile OS to the country, a Nokia spokesman said Friday.
Windows' contribution last quarter to Microsoft's revenue hit its lowest point since Vista's swan song more than two years earlier, according to figures released by the company Thursday.
Some developers already have begun building Metro-style apps for Windows 8. Heres what they're experiencing so far.
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft's Bing Maps service will be co-branded with the Nokia logo
Microsofts two biggest cash cows in its second quarter were the Business Division and Server Tools not Windows.
A member of Microsoft's 343 Industries game development team has announced that recent invites for a beta test of the upcoming Xbox 360 first person shooter Halo 4 are fakes.
Microsoft has joined the public opposition to SOPA, although like Google and many other opponents, won't black out its site today. Although some people have said Microsoft's opposition is insincere or half-hearted, the company has been quietly working against it behind the scenes at least since November.
Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent have settled a patent dispute, following a jury verdict last year that would have had Microsoft pay US$70 million for infringement.
With rumors of tablets starting at $599, will Intel and Microsoft use lessons learned from their netbook experience to lower the costs and better compete with the dominant iPad?
