By encouraging employees to spend time follow their ideas and concepts for apps and services Microsoft is daily looking for the next great thing.
Making the most of your system and raising the possibility of some interesting builds.
Microsoft has released an API for Onedrive cloud storage
Microsoft Garage has released a variety of productivity-based cross-platform apps that include joining conferences to a new keyboard for Excel in Android
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP that come with a number of bug fixes and other enhancements
Microsoft has opened up a first public preview of its real-time mobile analytics service that is based on technology it acquired with its purchase of Capptain last year.
Microsoft continues to expand their apps and services on all platforms as they update OneNote on iPad to support inking and OCR.
Microsoft is delivering a preview its HDInsight big-data service on Azure available to Linux users, and is making its machine-learning service generally available.
Microsoft has become one of the largest cloud providers to adopt a newly developed international standard for cloud privacy for enterprise customers with data stored in Azure, Office 365 and Dynamic CRM Online
Microsoft has begun adding some of the features demanded by IT to its Outlook clients for iOS and Android, with more to come in the 'coming weeks and months.'
Bringing the pen tech in-house will cost about $200 million say Israeli media sources
Trademark could mean Windows subscriptions are coming in the not too distant future.
Microsoft will be releasing the next version of SharePoint Server later this year in the same time frame as Office 2016, with more features and better Office 365 integration
Microsoft officials have revealed the next release of Windows Server won't ship until some time in 2016. The next public preview of the product will be this spring.
Microsoft began selling the DT-903 Smart Wireless Charging Plate online and in physical Microsoft Stores
Recently someone leaked the installer for the latest beta version of desktop Office 16
Microsoft has posted on their Facebook page that they now have over 2.2 million users which means that in the past eight days, they have added over 500k new testers of Windows 10
But quarterly profit fell due to slow sales of Windows software and a strong US dollar.
Microsoft rolled out its Enterprise Cloud Suite add-on in December 2014 for Enterprise Agreement customers and has now confirmed that the suite will cost between $7 (£4.66, AU$8.86) and $12 (£7.99, AU$15.18) per month per user
Microsoft says its new desktop productivity suite will be called Office 2016, and will launch later this year, and it also shared a few more pics of its new touch-friendly Office apps today