The Microsoft-Nokia alliance plan to put Office applications on Nokia smartphones isn't a good sign for the Windows Mobile operating …
Publicis Groupe buys Razorfish from Microsoft
The French media and advertising company Publicis Groupe will acquire the digital marketing agency Razorfish from Microsoft in a deal …
Microsoft puts positive spin on sales drop
Microsoft executives put a rosy glow on the company’s prospects and performance at the company’s annual financial analysts meeting, despite …
Microsoft plots mobile group improvements
Microsoft acknowledged its Windows Mobile segment has not performed well and said it is working on turning that around, but …
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers
Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No …
Microsoft stuns Linux world
In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. …
Vista Ultimate users fume, rant over Windows 7 deals
Consumers running Windows Vista Ultimate, who have blasted Microsoft for breaking promises to deliver a host of extras, are now …
Microsoft’s Bing takes a nibble out of Google’s search share
Up and running for a month, Microsoft's Bing has upped the company's share of the U.S. search market by 1%, …
Bing overtakes Yahoo in global search wars
It didn't take very long – less than a week – for Microsoft's Bing to surpass Yahoo to become the …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
Year after year, breathless pundits announce that the open source OS is on the verge of a tipping point, a …
Yahoo, Alibaba relationship frays under Bartz
Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's China operations, have soured since Carol Bartz took the helm of …
Microsoft, analysts tell companies to kill Vista plans
The Microsoft executive in charge of Windows urged some companies this week to dump Vista deployment plans and shift to …
Microsoft lays off 3,000 employees
Microsoft Corp. today laid off 3,000 workers, the second wave of a major reduction the company announced in January. And …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
After a year of bad blood, Microsoft, Yahoo talking again
Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp.'s fractious takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. fell through, the two companies are reportedly talking …
Microsoft won’t let companies run Azure on their own systems
Microsoft Corp. said this week that it has no plans — at least for now — to let businesses run …
Windows Azure goes down for early adopters
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure cloud-computing network suffered an overnight outage over the weekend during which their applications being …
Three reasons Microsoft shouldn’t port Windows to the ARM processor
Microsoft Corp. is facing increasing pressure to bring its mainstream Windows operating system to the ARM mobile CPU. But analysts …
Report: Microsoft U.S. search share hits 12-month low
Microsoft's share of Internet searches in the U.S. fell to a 12-month low according to Comscore's report of Internet search …
Microsoft testing search engine to take on Google
Microsoft this week will start internal testing of Kumo, the company's update to its Live Search Web site and part …