Bowing to pressure from the Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft today announced that it would sell a less expensive version of its Xbox One console that matches the PS4 price by dropping the Kinect motion sensor. This new Xbox One will become available in June and will cost $400.
Company bolsters Office 365 management powers for non-Windows devices
Microsoft will be adding new rules and undo functionality to its Outlook.com Web mail over the next few weeks.
Microsoft is finally allowing users to run Windows 7 and 8 in the cloud, but for development and test purposes only.
For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft's Azure cloud.
Microsoft has made Azure ExpressRoute available to enterprise users, according to reports
Microsoft is streamlining its ASP.NET server-side development framework with its next release, codenamed 'Project K.'
Android and iOS development in Microsoft's IDE now has first party support.
GFXBench spills the beans
She turns lights on and off and prints out shopping lists in a YouTube demo video.
Haswell rather than Bay Trail
A Microsoft incubation project focused on building a machine-learning-powered recommendation service is staffing up and taking steps toward going commercial.
A three-fold increase in Microsoft Windows computers infected with malicious software in late 2013 came from an application that was for some time classified as harmless by security companies.
Simply shrinking the big Surface design down to 8-inches ain't going to cut it
Microsoft has patented a smartwatch that includes a removable display that you can dock on specially-enabled gym equipment
Microsoft today announced several changes to its OneDrive cloud storage service, including updates to the web interface and Android mobile app.
Microsoft is opening up a customer preview of its newest Office app, a PowerPoint-based app known as Mix, to more testers.
With the Xbox One out, Microsoft's game development teams are hard at work, with long lists of projects they'd like to tackle, Phil Spencer told fans on Twitter this week
Microsoft looks to be taking the covers off its long-rumored Surface Mini tablet on May 20 in New York City.
Microsoft is reportedly close to inking a deal with Showtime that could see episodes of the upcoming live-action Halo show air on the TV network before appearing on Xbox
Microsoft recently announced new low-cost hardware for schools across the US, aiming to address the technological issues in the education system
Microsoft is giving the IT admin crowd an updated toolset for managing encryption with the latest release of its Desktop Optimization Pack, better known as MDOP.
Using the Xbox One's Kinect for voice commands is still pretty hit-or-miss for many, and Microsoft knows it
Microsoft will open an innovation center in Miami focused on providing students, startups, government organizations and the Latin American community access to technology and tools for job creation, the company said in a statement
Tools and skills for managing workloads in the cloud
He also hints that Cortana could make her way to the PC.
Nice work if you can get it
Looking for the next new thing
For the past 9 months, Microsoft has lost $300 million on Surface
Will be the first console to reach the country in 14 years
A 20 anti-trust battle between Microsoft and Novell has finally ended with the US supreme court deciding the thing has been done to death.
As convenient as touchscreens and air gesture controls can be on a PC, it's not very comfortable to keep raising your hands just to handle basic tasks.
Microsoft has released an update for Office for iPad that adds the ability to print Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents using any AirPrint printer
Microsoft/Nokia are the perennial underdog in a market dominated by Android and iOS
Pair of updates is expected in Q3 and Q4 for Windows Phone 8.1
Landmark ruling could pose serious concerns for European firms wary of the cloud
Microsoft is making Skype group video calling a free, cross-platform feature, starting with the Windows desktop, Mac and Xbox One platforms.
It's looking increasingly likely that Microsoft has no intentions of dumping the Android-based Nokia X phones that Nokia introduced just before its handset business became part of Microsoft.
Microsoft has announced it has increased the amoung of storage space for OneDrive For Business from 25GB to 1TB per user, along with offering the same amount of space for Office 365 ProPlus customers.
Nokia appears free to return as an Android or Windows Phone maker in 2016
An excavation of an old landfill in New Mexico to find evidence of millions of buried Atari 2006 "E.T." game cartridges has been successful and will be part of an upcoming Microsoft Xbox documentary.
Microsoft has offered a new update on its subscriber base for Office 365 Home, announcing that 4.4 million users have now signed up to access the software service.
Microsoft may be prepping to ship a mini version of its Surface tablets within a month, based on an Amazon.com listing for a case custom made for the device.
Microsoft is retiring its SQL Web and Business cloud-database service tiers in April 2015 and replacing them with new Basic, Standard and Premium ones.
Microsoft has committed to building a massive 1.2 million square-foot, $1.1 billion regional data center complex on 154 acres in central Iowa, a project officials pledged will create more than 80 jobs in the local area over a four- to five-year phase-in period.
Microsofts $7.2 billion deal to acquire Nokias (NOK) mobile phone business is set to close Friday, April 25, sealing a month- long process that apparently ended with the companies winning the last-leg nod from Chinese regulators.
Nothing to do with Lenovo whatsoever
What comes after Windows 8.1 Update? Sources say a second update is on its way, and that Microsoft's unified OS group is picking up the delivery pace.
Microsoft will hold an Atari 2600-themed free party Friday night in Alamogordo, New Mexico prior to Saturday's dig of the site where millions of "E.T.' games were buried.
The grand old name of Nokia will be dropped from the company's title as soon as the Microsoft takeover is rubber stamped this month, according to a letter sent by the new owners to suppliers
