A top Microsoft boss and family man is accused of sexually harassing a female colleague when a staff conference descended into 'wild and drunken' debauchery... more
A businessman at the centre of a £10 million High Court battle involving claims of drunkenness and lewd behaviour among senior staff at Microsoft in Britain is the victim of a 'boardroom ambush', according to friends... more
Sales of Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows software disappointed for the third straight quarter, taking the gloss off better-than-expected earnings that were aided by an unusually low tax rate... more
Microsoft is set to launch a major rearguard action against the ever-growing Google as it announces the launch tomorrow of a "cloud" version of its Office suite of software... more
The end of the hand-held remote control could be in sight as Microsoft unveils the first system that lets you simply tell your television what you want to watch... more
If Microsoft is willing to pay $8.5 billion (£5.2 billion) for Skype, how much more might it have paid if Skype worked - I mean really worked - so that it could be used for an intelligent flowing conversation?... more
The owners of Skype, led by private equity firm Silver Lake, are set to earn a profit of more than $5 billion - three times their original investment - on the sale of the Internet phone giant to Microsoft... more
Microsoft is poised to buy the highly popular internet phone service Skype in what would be the biggest deal in the software giant's 36-year history... more
Stephen Elop, Nokia's chief executive who recently said his firm was like a blazing oil rig, sold all his shares in Microsoft yesterday and spent €1 million (£840,000) buying 150,000 in the mobile phone giant... more
Microsoft’s plan to use ARM Holdings microchips in its smartphones and tablet computers will help the software giant establish a major presence in the market, ARM’s president says... more
Shares in chip designer ARM Holdings soar almost 9% on reports that its technology has been chosen by Microsoft to relaunch its attempts to get into the handheld market... more
Microsoft’s Kinect, a device originally designed to let gamers play by jumping around in front of their TVs, has been the subject of an amazing cyber battle as hackers slave to unlock its secrets... more
Microsoft reports 51% jump in quarterly profit, as higher sales of Windows and Office software knock down fears Apple's iPad would take a bite out of its main business... more
Shares in Microsoft tumble more than a half per cent after top executive warns that the software giant must embrace “cloud computing” as
consumers look beyond personal computers... more
With celebrity users ranging from the PM to Helen Mirren, computer games have never been more in vogue. And as Mark Prigg reports, that means fierce competition this Christmas... more
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer only got half his annual bonus last year as the software giant rapped him over the knuckles for a less-than-glittering performance... more
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