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?
Dave Cutler, the father of Windows NT, is now working on helping Microsoft evolve Xbox beyond a game-centric console.
Microsoft is embarking on what I believe to be its biggest challenge yet the end of the road for the x86 architecture.
Microsoft Corp.'s computer-network- management software, a product that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer once came close to scrapping, emerges today as the cornerstone of a bid to challenge VMware Inc.
Microsoft has decided to focus on programming packages for cable subscribers via Xbox
10 years after Bill Gates famously declared a security emergency within Microsoft, the stakes are much higher. 'TWC Next' will include a focus on cloud services such as Azure.
Microsoft has finally managed to surpass Yahoo's US search engine market share
Microsoft Corp and LG Electronics have signed a patent agreement that covers Android and Chrome OS-based devices
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, known for dismantling botnets like Kelihos and Rustock, is testing a new service to distribute threat data in real time to governments and partners.
Microsoft executives this week hinted at lowered expectations for Windows revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011, citing data from research firms that point to a stall in PC shipments at the end of 2011.
Microsoft investigated a workers protest at its contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group
Microsoft's exhibit hall space for CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center has already been sold for the 2013 show in a process that took just 45 minutes, according to a new report.
Microsoft said industrywide sales of personal computers will probably be lower than analysts projected in the fourth quarter because supply was hurt by flooding in Thailand.
Steve Ballmer gave Microsoft's last keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show Monday night
With Internet Explorer finally getting auto updates for the first time this year, the UK lead for the product has told TechRadar that she has quelled a 'reasonable amount of internal panic' from the Microsoft enterprise teams.
Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote did let slip one juicy morsel of news: Kinect will be coming to Windows in February 2012
Microsoft has denied that its Xbox Live internet gaming service has been breached by hackers
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made some exciting announcements regarding Windows 8 and Kinect at the CES keynote speech on Monday night.
OnLive Desktop offers remote access to a cloud-based full Windows 7 desktop, including Microsoft Office applications and cloud storage, all from an iPad.
Nothing has changed in regard to how we work with carriers to deliver Windows Phone updates to our customers, maintained a Microsoft official following a change in Microsofts update disclosure policy.
Microsoft has made no secret of the fact that it is transforming the Xbox 360 in a media hub to extend its life, but it looks as if the company is going a step further by adding PVR functionality to the next generation of the console.
Today, Microsoft Studios premiered Microsoft Flight, a PC game that lets players jump into the challenge, fun, and freedom of flight.
Microsoft today filed a legal complaint against Comet, a UK retailer which the company alleges sold 94,000 sets of Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs without Microsoft's blessing.
Microsoft is continuing its campaign to eradicate IE 6, celebrating a new low in IE 6 usage share in the U.S.
HardOCP posted a story that Facebook is phasing out support for IE7 because it doesn't display Timeline profiles correctly
Reports that Microsoft is set to kibosh the distribution of more tokens allowing homebrewers to create Windows Phone apps are not true.
Microsoft is preparing to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server there.
Microsoft will be showcasing the Surface 2.0 multi-touch systems, aka the Samsung SUR40, at the National Retail Federation show in New York in mid-January.
A number of people are experiencing an issue, more commonly known as "Error 801540B7," that's keeping them from getting their daily media fix by booting them from the Live network and locking its purchased-content doors.
Microsoft today announced that next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will its last as an exhibitor.
Following the recent OneNote launch for iPad, Microsoft is moving on with another major release a native SkyDrive app.
An intriguing report in the Wall Street Journal has claimed that top brass at Nokia and Microsoft recently spoke of making a joint bid to buy RIM.
In another blow to Android, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial determination that Motorola Mobility infringes four claims of a Microsoft patent
Computerworld reports that Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.
PC World posted a story that after seven years' preparation and a two-month trial, Novell's $1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft ended Friday in a hung jury.
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft adds open standard support to Messenger
Anandtech posted a story that Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer 6 Countdown site with the express goal of reducing worldwide usage of IE6 to 1% of the browser market
All About Microsoft reports that Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division.
InformationWeek reports that Denmark's largest bank predicts Nokia will sell its phone-making business to Microsoft during the first half of 2012.
PC World posted a story that Microsoft has taken steps to make Office 365 more attractive to U.S. and European customers who have to comply with regulatory requirements related to data protection
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft Studios has just released Kinectimals,
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft is replacing Andy Lees as head of its Windows Phone division
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft has launched ExcelMashup.com, a new website for Excel users
