Microsoft has kicked off a 'technical preview' of the next version of its Office suite and promised that a public beta will ship this summer.
Microsoft today issued a brief statement promising to make "essential patents" available to competitors at fair and reasonable licensing rates, and promised not to sue companies making products that infringe these patents.
U.S. Microsoft employees raised $100.5 million (inclusive of the company match) for more than 18,000 U.S.-based community organizations doing work in the U.S. and around the world last year.
Microsoft plans to launch the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone on Valentines Day in a special bundle costing $899, according to reports.
Microsoft has partnered-up with a British-based child protection group to launch a new version of Internet Explorer to keep kids away from unsuitable content.
The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms.
Microsoft rolled out OneNote for Android phones, adding to its growing cross-platform app stable.
Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units).
Barnes & Noble received a boost in its patent infringement case against Microsoft after staff attorneys at the US International Trade Commission recommended that ITC Judge Theodore Essex find that the book company had not infringed on three Microsoft patents, reports Bloomberg.
Microsoft will deliver mobile versions of its Dynamics CRM app and service for iPad, iPhone, Android phone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 in the second quarter of 2012.
Microsoft SkyDrive has been around for a while, but was recently given a fairly significant update.
Brandon Watson, head of developer experiences for Windows Phone, is the latest exec to leave the Microsofts phone unit.
Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say.
If youre among those who received a free Samsung Windows 8 tablet from Microsoft at Build and have erroneously gotten a tax bill for it, Microsoft plans to make good on it.
Windows Phone 8 has major changes en route, according to Microsoft's Joe Belfiore. Look for better hardware support, Windows 8 compatibility, and enterprise security.
Google fires back at "dishonest" Microsoft ad
Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail integrates processes from supply chain to point of sale, spanning in-store, Web, and mobile retailing.
Microsoft is pushing its alternative services
Microsoft has revealed that its Internet Explorer 10 will not use plug-ins when running in the Metro user interface.
Microsoft has made available the 1.0 version of its Kinect for Windows hardware and software under a commercial license.
