We are halfway through 2014 and Microsoft is having a good year - well, almost - even if it had to cut 18,000 jobs, can the Surface Mini, kill Android for Nokia, shut its Xbox Entertainment Studios and merge its tech conferences
Microsoft has made it clear that it wants its products on all platforms and that march continues as Microsoft has made OneNote available for the Amazon Kindle Fire and Fire phone
The next locations for 13 upcoming Microsoft stores have been revealed, and it shows that Microsoft is heavily committed to rolling out retail outlets all over the United States
Microsoft again took a hit on its Surface business, the company acknowledged Tuesday.
Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said this week that sales of the company's 12-inch Surface Pro 3 tablet are "outpacing earlier versions of Surface Pro" but did not offer any specific numbers.
With Nokia's range of Android-powered smartphones all but dead, Microsoft is pushing its newly-acquired Lumia line harder than ever
Strong sales of cloud products to businesses helped lift Microsoft's revenue by 18 percent last quarter, though its profits declined.
Adds plug-ins for Packer.io and Opennebula
As part of the sweeping changes being ushered in by CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft is to merge five of its big global tech events, including TechEd, into one major event the week of 4 May 2015 in Chicago.
Microsoft isn't discontinuing only the Android-based Nokia X line. It also is phasing out the Nokia Asha and S40 feature phones as part of its further focus on Windows Phone.
The rumors were true as Microsoft announced today that thousands of Microsoft employees will be let go from the company as they work to streamline operations and conform to Nadella's new mission
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are continuing their longstanding partnership with a new migration support program for Windows Server 2003 customers, which was announced during this weeks Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2014
Sales of the Xbox One have doubled in the US following Microsoft's decision to drop the Kinect as a core product and lower the price
Microsoft is releasing its second firmware update this month for the Surface Pro 3 tablet
The Apple-IBM partnership will have little effect on Microsoft's dominance in the enterprise, or drastically change its mutating mobile strategy.
One of the biggest cloud data centers in the country will now be driven primarily via alternative energy
Redmond staff to likely to learn fate next week
Microsoft's Cortana artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1 is about to get a whole lot smarter, thanks to the software giant’s decision to integrate academic data within its Bing search engine.
Microsoft's COO says his company and its army of OEMs will compete on price with Google's Chromebooks, a milestone in Microsoft's battle against the encroaching enemy.
Microsoft expects that consumers could see a seven inch tablet running on Windows 8.1 in stores priced as low as $99 this fall, along with notebooks as cheap as $199
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demoted Windows to a handful of terse mentions deep in his 3,100 all-hands strategy email of last week.
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner acknowledged today that his company's operating systems power only a small fraction of all devices worldwide.
A new leak shows the Start menu in a leaked build of Windows Threshold and it looks exactly like the one that was shown off at Microsoft's Build conference earlier this year
Microsoft has announced a range of improvements to some of its Bing Apps for Windows Phone 8.1, including single sign-in for Microsoft Accounts, and new features in Bing News, Food & Drink and Travel
A screenshot of Windows build 9788 has been spotted in the wild and aligns to previous information that we had heard about this particular build being leaked in the very near future
CEO Satya Nadella has given Microsoft's employees their fiscal 2015 marching orders. The company's primary focus will be on productivity and platforms, not devices and services.
Microsoft is introducing three new Office 365 plans for small and midsize business users this October
Last year, Microsoft said that it would allow any Xbox One to be turned into a developer console but it looks like that feature has been scrapped by the team in Redmond
Microsoft has managed to reverse years of sometimes-sharp decline in Internet Explorer's user share and revive interest in the browser it bundles with Windows.
Notorious Russian leaker Wzor denied any link between the publication of internal Microsoft info and a former employee who stole trade secrets.
Microsoft may be seriously looking at releasing Android powered Lumias after all, after the release of the Nokia X which was seen by many as a parting shot for the Microsoft acquired Nokia division
Google joined Microsoft, Mellanox, Broadcom and Arista Networks to launch the 25G Ethernet Consortium, an open industry body that aims to push 25G (single link) and 50G (double link) protocols in datacenters
Redmond wants to ensure IoT is not hampered by lack of communication
Microsoft's pre-release programme for the next version of its Microsoft Office productivity suite has gone down after just a few hours
Bolsters the company's cross platform credentials
Microsoft's new Office 365 pricing, new Outlook Web App functionality, an update to Visual Studio 2013 and more on that coming Microsoft smartband close out this short week.
After confiscating 22 domains from hosting service No-IP earlier this week, Microsoft has announced today that it has restored control of the seized domains to the hosting provider.
Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch
Microsoft and Canon have entered into an agreement that will allow both companies access to each other's patent portfolios
Microsoft has partnered up with Qualcomm and other companies to establish standardized ways for connected household objects (such as light bulbs and thermostats)
Ever wanted to test out new features before they launch? If so, today's your lucky day as Microsoft is currently looking for beta testers for the Office family of programs and services.
A DDoS on the heels of Microsoft's takeover of 22 No-IP domains makes things worse.
Word on the street is that Redmond is releasing a smartwatch in the autumn
It appears that the Chinese government is not rushing to kill off Microsoft office as it had been widely reported
Microsoft has filed a civil case, naming two foreign nationals from Kuwait and Algeria as the masterminds behind a concerted scheme to infect millions of computers with Bladabindi and Jenxcus families of malwar
Says it will keep sending early notification emails
Microsoft has announced it is adding new encryption support for its OneDrive cloud storage service and its Outlook.com email website, along with the opening of its first Transparency Center.
A new story that claims to have inside information on the next major update for Windows, code named Threshold, should please desktop PC users, who may never have to access the Modern UI interface that was first introduced in Windows 8.
Microsoft plans to test the fuel cells as a means of providing more efficient power to data centers
Online rumors claim that a sequel to the 2013 Xbox One launch game Ryse: Son of Rome has now been cancelled, reportedly due to issues between the game's developer Crytek and publisher Microsoft over the rights to the franchise.
