Early in the process Amazon was seen as the favorite, partly because its cloud business won a deal with the CIA in 2013.

Armed by the biggest patent troll of Microsoft, Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC not only threatens but also sues Free software that's part of standard GNU/Linux desktops

Also commits to making all its devices serviceable at some point

On this day in 2009 — 10 years ago — Microsoft released its new Windows 7 operating system to the public. Less than three years after its unfavorable predecessor, Windows Vista, was released, it added support for touchscreen computers and brought new features like snapping windows, a new Superbar, and an updated file management system to PCs.

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Microsoft did something unexpected in launching the Surface Duo, an Android phone with two screens that fold around a hinge down the middle. The company signaled that, after two years completely out of the phone game, it's ready to try again -- just not with its own software running the show.

UPDATE: Sony, Nintendo issue statements.

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it updated its privacy policy.

Slack's revenue got impacted in its first earnings report as a public company by service issues that caused the company to offer credits to customers.

Tech companies should stop behaving as though everything that is not illegal is acceptable, says Microsoft’s second-in-command. Instead, they should focus on defining – and living by – the standards that they would like to see in regulation, before it gets forced on them anyway.

Microsoft's browsers stumbled last month, dropping share like a lame Netflix series and falling to a record low after wiping out all of 2019's gains, plus more. According to data published today by analytics company Net Applications, Microsoft's browser share for September - composed of Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge - fell 1.8 percentage points to 12%, an all-time low. To put the decline in perspective, the browsers accounted for a user share of 12.4% at the first of this year and hit a high of 14% in April.

The algorithm automatically reads and digests new articles, and posts comments alongside humans.

The company will start with projects in Latin America and Africa.

The PC — and yes, Microsoft — set us free. Now Microsoft is taking control.

The Seattle area, home to both Microsoft and Amazon, is a potent symbol of the affordable housing crisis that has followed the explosive growth of tech hubs. Now Microsoft, arguing that the industry has an interest and responsibility to help people left behind in communities transformed by the boom, is putting up $500 million to help address the problem.

Microsoft’s Xbox One family of consoles has enjoyed a host of great improvements in the years following the original console’s underwhelming launch. And this spirit of innovation is showing no signs of slowing down, as it’s now emerged that Xbox One owners will soon be able to have their gaming enhanced by DTS:X sound. Rumors that this feature might be inbound have been circulating for some time within the Xbox Insider community, but it was confirmed today in a tweet by Steven Wilssens, one of Microsoft’s lead audio team.

You know when there’s a show you really like, but then it dips in quality and eventually gets canceled, and the creators say they want to make a new season someday or maybe a remake, but it’s stuck in production hell for several years, then Netflix or whoever sinks a bunch of money into it, and it eventually gets released and it’s not quite as good as you remember the original, but it’s still pretty entertaining and hey, you’re paying for Netflix anyway so you’re not going to complain about getting it for “free?” That’s Crackdown 3. It is video game as Netflix Original.

Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density.

Ebooks will no longer be accessible as of July 2019.

Apple has received a lot of stick for opposing the Right to Repair your own property, but of course, the company has always been opposed to letting users tinker with their hardware and software, so it has not exactly been unexpected. Much more of a surprise is to hear that Microsoft has also been quietly …