Microsoft has named company veteran Satya Nadella its next chief executive, with Bill Gates stepping down as chairperson to become a "tech adviser".
Microsoft’s glory days are behind it, and its days of making investors into millionaires are long gone, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Few people can name the CEO of Toyota, or LG. But how many of us know who runs Apple? Most ordinary folks have no trouble naming him.
Steve Ballmer is a fighter, but he works for a ruthless capitalist in Bill Gates — and now a Wall Street hedge fund manager says he has to go.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced on Tuesday Bing search engine and maps would be the default service on BlackBerry devices.
Microsoft’s decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market.
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile phone operating system on Monday as it seeks to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Blackberry.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday no company was immune to the global financial crisis.
The head of Microsoft’s Windows and web operations is leaving the Seattle-based software empire.
Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates.
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer said his company was still holding talks with Yahoo!, although no longer about efforts to take over the internet giant. Ballmer, speaking during a…
Microsoft plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touch screen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said on…
Microsoft is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo! but is in talks about other types of deals with the United States number two search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said…
Yahoo! faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft’s ,5-billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on…
Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo! on Saturday after the internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by -billion to ,5-billion. Microsoft’s offer was…
Microsoft can build a competitive online advertising business without Yahoo! but it "could just take more time", CEO Steve Ballmer told the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> in an…
United States internet company Yahoo! on Monday rejected software giant Microsoft’s three-week ultimatum to accept a takeover offer, but left the door open to a higher bid. "We…
Microsoft launched a new version of its server operating system with great fanfare on Wednesday, but analysts said Windows Server 2008 is an incremental update rather than a…
With a market value of -billion, Google’s power has become awe-inspiring. Its profits rocketed by 40% to ,2-billion last year and it swallowed the popular video-sharing website…
Technology giant Microsoft said on Friday that it had offered to acquire internet media company Yahoo! for ,6-billion in cash and stock. Microsoft said it had offered to buy…
