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Microsoft appeals to AG Holder, cites Constitutional right to address spying controversy

Microsoft today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him or President Obama to personally intervene to… Read More

New Microsoft Research chief defends autonomy and ‘blue sky’ research

REDMOND — Peter Lee, the computer scientist who is assuming worldwide leadership of Microsoft Research, assured a crowd of university… Read More

Ratio Interactive and Cypress merge, combining Xbox Live and Windows 8 expertise

Digital agencies Ratio Interactive and Cypress announced this morning that they’re merging, bringing together two Seattle-based companies that have made… Read More

Ballmer’s ‘One Microsoft’: One decade too late?

Back in the spring of 2002, more than a decade ago, the big news coming out of Redmond was that… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Watch his entire talk here

Bill Gates made a rare public appearance back at Microsoft, his old stomping grounds, earlier today for the opening keynote… Read More

Return of Microsoft Bob? But seriously, Gates sees new chance for ‘personal agents’

REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we’ve entered a “golden… Read More

Here are the 8 interesting books Bill Gates is reading this summer

It’s always fun learning which books are in Bill Gates’ giant tote bag of old-fashioned books he lugs around, and… Read More

City of San Jose inks deal with Microsoft in Google’s backyard

The City of San Jose announced a partnership with Microsoft today to bring its more than 5,000 employees onto the… Read More

Microsoft admits it screwed up Xbox One marketing strategy

Microsoft didn’t exactly earn a gold star for its initial Xbox One marketing campaign, ultimately reversing its always-on Internet requirements last… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Free and commercial software working ‘very well’ together

REDMOND — Here are five words you’d never expect to come out of Bill Gates’ mouth: “Thank God for free… Read More

Report: Microsoft working on smartwatch with translucent aluminum, LTE support

While we’ve heard rumors of Microsoft working on its own smartwatch before, a couple new reports shed light on more concrete… Read More

Five years later, Bill Gates back at Microsoft for talk today

REDMOND — Bill Gates has made public appearances at Microsoft relatively rarely since leaving his day-to-day role at the company… Read More

Former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie named to HP board

HP today named three new directors to its board, and one of the new faces will be very familiar to… Read More

Microsoft cuts price on Surface RT to $349

Microsoft is looking to jumpstart sales of the Surface RT, dropping the price on the 32GB tablet from $499 to… Read More

We’re with Windows, and we’re here to help: The anatomy of a scam

On its face, it was totally unbelievable. After all, when was the last time you recall any tech support pro-actively… Read More

China’s reaction to NSA surveillance gives Microsoft reason to worry

One month after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the U.S. government’s secret electronic intelligence gathering program to the world, new reports… Read More

Search stats: Bing gaining market share as Yahoo slips

The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for June and Microsoft continues to grow its search share while Yahoo keeps… Read More

Microsoft sues U.S. Customs for letting disputed Motorola phones into the country

Microsoft has sued the United States Customs and Border Patrol for failing to enforce an import restriction on Motorola Mobility… Read More

Transcript: Ballmer and Microsoft’s new leaders explain the big reorg

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and the company’s newly announced leadership team answered a wide range of questions about the “One… Read More

Nokia’s Elop defends Windows Phone, says AT&T actually isn’t all that crummy

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, walking around the stage in his trendy yellow shoes, was clearly having fun at the unveiling… Read More

Report: Microsoft allowed NSA to bypass encryption for access to Outlook emails, Skype conversations

Throughout the year, Microsoft has lambasted Google and accused them of shady privacy policies via its “Scroogled” campaign. But now, new… Read More

Vine, Path, Flipboard — but not Instagram — coming to Windows Phone 8

The just-announced Nokia Lumia 1020 will be able to take some pretty amazing pictures with the 41-MP camera, but users… Read More

Ballmer’s big bet will reshape Microsoft — with lots of risk

How can a company of more than 90,000 employees become more nimble and competitive? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid out… Read More

Nokia debuts Lumia 1020 with 41MP camera, available July 26 for $299 on AT&T

Nokia today officially unveiled its new Lumia 1020, complete with an impressive 41-megapixel — yes, 41-megapixel — camera. The obvious… Read More

Microsoft Research gets new leaders as part of overhaul

Rick Rashid, who built and led Microsoft Research for more than two decades, will be leaving the position and joining… Read More

Full text: Ballmer promises ‘One Strategy, One Microsoft’ in memo to employees

Here’s the full text of the memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlining the sweeping reorganization of the company, as… Read More

‘One Microsoft’: Ballmer unveils massive overhaul, vows to change how Microsoft does business

Microsoft will reorganize into four engineering groups, centralize its core business functions, reshuffle its executives, rearrange its product teams, discard the… Read More

Microsoft to release ‘feature pack’ update for Windows Phone 8 in 2014

Microsoft announced today that a “feature pack” update will be arriving to Windows Phone 8 in the first half of… Read More

Nokia Lumia 925 coming to T-Mobile on July 17 for $49 down

As part of many big moves being made today, T-Mobile announced details for the Nokia Lumia 925, its first 4G LTE… Read More

Microsoft helping cities get smart with CityNext initiative

The world’s biggest cities are essential to the growth of the global economy, and Microsoft is starting a new initiative to help… Read More