Microsoft's former CEO, Steve Ballmer, hinted recently that he may soon step down from the company's board.
Microsofts new chief executive Satya Nadella is set for a San Francisco public debut of sorts this week, with a March 27 event to paint the vendors mobile first, cloud-first landscape and unwrap its new Office for iPad app, followed by an April 2 possible appearance at the Build 2014 developers' conference.
Nokia looks to be readying new Lumia hardware and/or software on the first day of Microsoft's Build 2014 conference in San Francisco next week.
Microsoft has a new blog post and infographic that gives us a reminder that Office 2003 will lose its official support on April 8th, the same day that it ends support for Windows XP
Nokia has delayed to April the sale of its smartphone business to Microsoft as it still hasn't received approvals from certain antitrust authorities in Asia.
Microsoft is bringing elements of its Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to iPad in a bid to win over the ever expanding tablet user base, which has largely been neglected by Redmond.
Microsoft will rebrand its cloud platform from 'Windows Azure' to 'Microsoft Azure' as part of the company's push to emphasize its cross-platform services prowess.
Emails stolen and leaked from Microsoft by the Syrian Electronic Army show that Microsoft can receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges from the government for information requests
A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the "Metro" version of Firefox says that poor adoption of Windows 8's radical user interface wasn't behind the decision to shelve the browser.
Windows and Xbox games will receive a significant graphics and performance boost with Microsoft's new DirectX 12, a set of application programming interfaces and tools used in PC games.
The noted Windows leak site Wzor.net was offline Thursday and its Twitter account had disappeared, a day after an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with stealing trade secrets from the company.
A former Microsoft employee has been charged with passing on Microsoft trade secrets involving Windows 8.
Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.
Rumors are swirling that Microsoft may buy or invest significantly in mobile-development tool vendor Xamarin.
Microsoft is scratching off one more excuse for not buying its Windows tablet hardware with the introduction of an 4G LTE model that glides into US retail stores this week
Google also allegedly stopping hardware makers from selling hybrid devices
Microsoft has made available for immediate download the expected free versions of its OneNote note-taking app for Mac and desktop Windows.
In the wake of Skype updates for Outlook.com and Windows 8.1, Microsoft today announced a major update to Skype for Xbox One as well
The software giants pressured ASUS to drop its Transformer Book Duet TD300 plans
Microsoft's software is due for major changes in order to transition effectively into the era of cloud computing and mobility, the company's co-founder Bill Gates says in a Rolling Stone interview.
