After 30 years of profitable but distinctly uncool dominance, Microsoft is finally doing exciting work again.
At the Microsoft Build conference last week, the company allowed developers to get their hands on its new holographic viewing device, the HoloLens.
It used to be ‘build it and they will come’. With Microsoft’s new Windows 10, it’s now ‘let them build it and they will buy it’, writes Liron Segev.
The internet of things and big data are getting more practical when it comes to customer demands and service, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
Microsoft SA has officially pulled the plug on Windows XP support.
Microsoft has named company veteran Satya Nadella its next chief executive, with Bill Gates stepping down as chairperson to become a "tech adviser".
AT CES this week, Yahoo head Marissa Meyer stepped up the ailing search company’s battle plans as it prepares to take on Microsoft and Google.
Beleaguered Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will sell its mobile phone unit to US group Microsoft for €5.44-billion.
Microsoft’s glory days are behind it, and its days of making investors into millionaires are long gone, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Microsoft’s patented solution to people not paying attention: bribery. Maybe companies should just make better adverts, writes Arwa Mahdawi.
When Microsoft unveiled its new games console, the Xbox One, on May 22, tech fans struggled to keep up with an information overload.
The console, which is being billed as an all-in-one entertainment device, is set to go head-to-head with Sony’s Playstation 4 when it gets released.
Although there’s little glory in bronze, BlackBerry and Microsoft are battling for third position in the smartphone market.
Microsoft has plans for new touchscreen devices and a Windows 8 revamp as revenue rise has unexpectedly beaten analysts’ forecasts.
The firm has been fined because it failed to give Europe’s users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers.
Google is rumoured to be opening retail stores later this year. Alistair Fairweather looks at why the search engine business needs retail presence.
The failure of Microsoft’s Surface tablet might not spell doom for the computer giant but it is teetering on the edge, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Microsoft and Google have become embroiled in a bitter dispute over who is the fairest of them all for online shopping.
Microsoft Windows 8 marks the most significant change to the world’s most popular operating system since its conception in the early Eighties.
That Windows 8 will be a huge hit in terms of sales is a given. What will be fascinating to watch is how it is received, writes Charles Arthur.
The first decline in personal computer sales in a decade has prompted analysts to ask whether tablets will kill the PC, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Software giant plans to morph into a services company, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Microsoft may have stolen a march on its smartphone rivals by putting social connectivity at the heart of the user experience.
Apple’s victory in a landmark US patent case against Samsung could reshape the mobile sector and slow the momentum of Google and its Android system.
Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer has stepped up the software giant’s battle with Google for the future of technology in the workplace.
Microsoft has succumbed to Apple envy and launched its version of the iPad. Charles Arthur reports.
Microsoft has launched its own series of tablet computers as the tech giant fights to regain ground lost to Apple’s hugely popular iPad.
At a "major event" on Monday, Microsoft appears set to launch its own tablet, running a new version of Windows, in a bid to compete with Apple’s iPad.
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Microsoft has lodged a formal complaint with the EU’s competition regulator against Google’s Motorola Mobility.
Fifteen major tech firms have jointly designed a system to combat emails seeking to hijack passwords and other personal details.
Microsoft says PC sales fell by 1% in the fourth quarter of 2011 because Thailand floods have a lingering effect on hard drive shipments.
Google stands accused of anti-competitive behaviour, but it’s not quite that simple, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.