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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s.
Microsoft is investigating how an eagerly anticipated Xbox game appeared on the internet three weeks ahead of its official release.
An urgent security patch for a flaw in the way Microsoft Windows handles shortcuts is being issued on 2 August, the firm says.
Software giant Microsoft has signed a deal to get access to blueprints for the mobile chips designed by Arm.
Microsoft reports a sharp rise in quarterly profits to $4.52bn as sales of the Windows 7 operating system top 175 million.
Microsoft shows off a ‘virtual boy’ that reacts to human emotions, body movements and voice, designed for Xbox consoles.
Outlook users will be able to see their Facebook friends via the e-mail client as Microsoft moves towards social web.
The firm launches a slimmer, more powerful Xbox 360 console ahead of the E3 video games convention in Los Angeles.
The consumer launch of Microsoft’s Office 2010 has seen the software go on sale around the world.
Microsoft reveals details of its hands-free motion control system for the Xbox 360 console, which it has rebranded Kinect.
The latest share price changes have pushed the total value of Apple past its rival Microsoft for the first time since 1989.
Microsoft is refreshing its e-mail service Hotmail in an attempt to give it an edge over rival offerings from Yahoo and Google.
Microsoft prepares to launch the latest version of its Office software, with features similar to those offered by Google.
Nokia and Microsoft unveil software aimed at taking a slice of the business market away from Blackberry.
Windows XP machines infected with a sneaky virus will not be able to install Microsoft’s latest security updates.
Microsoft has unveiled a phone called “Kin” that it claims has been made for those that live their lives online.
Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen lead tributes to Edward Roberts, the “father of the PC”, who died at the age of 68.
Web browser Opera says its downloads in Europe have doubled since Microsoft began offering a choice.
Small browser firms want changes made to Microsoft’s browser choice screen to make their programs more prominent.
The choice of browsers offered to millions of European Microsoft users is not as varied as suggested, say web designers.
Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser.
Security experts are divided over Microsoft’s legal move to shut down the Waledac botnet that sent billions of junk messages.
Millions of Internet Explorer users in Europe will get the chance to change their web browser from 1 March.
Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising business are cleared by European and US regulators.
A 17-year-old vulnerability that dates from the days of DOS is being patched in Microsoft’s February security update.
Microsoft has released a patch for a hole in Internet Explorer that is thought to have been exploited by Chinese hackers.
Microsoft says it will issue a patch for a hole in Internet Explorer that could have been exploited by Chinese hackers.
Displaced workers can get free technology training through the Microsoft Elevate America program