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Twitter in the biggest overhaul of the search service since its launch three years ago.

By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. fell on Friday after an analyst downgraded the stock because of worries that tablet computers and smartphones could hurt some of the technology company's businesses.

In this June 8, 2011 photo, Nintendo's video game console:Wii U is demonstrated at the Nintendo booth at the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

Technology that prevents advertisers from following your online footprints has been around for a couple years, but Microsoft became the first browser maker to turn that feature on as the default setting.

Closely following its preview release of Windows 8 , Microsoft has also posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE , as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.

In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday.

Microsoft said on Thursday that the final beta version of its much-anticipated Windows 8 has been readied for download by those willing to try out what the giant software has touted as its most exciting product release in a decade.

New Delhi, May 31 : Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who called on Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Thursday, appreciated India's achievements in containing AIDS infections, polio management, reproductive health initiatives as also recent steps taken for TB management.

Google is accusing Microsoft and Nokia of abusing mobile patents in a way that will drive up the prices of cellphones and other wireless devices.

Microsoft will ship Windows 8 Release Preview today, several days earlier than expected, according to a blog briefly posted by the company.

Competitors, who could win a Nokia Lumia 900 running the Windows Phone operating system, will have four weeks to build a Windows 8 app.

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is on a brief visit to India, met Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh here According to media reports, Ramesh has invited Gates to launch partnerships for developing inexpensive sanitation solutions in the country.

Microsoft is offering the feds their very own version of Office 365, the suite of online office tools the software giant introduced last year.

The summer travel season has arrived, and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once called Linux 'a cancer.' Now the company's big cloud play is geared toward the open source OS.

Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. Tu.

Did you know Microsoft Excel was release on the Mac before it was released on Windows? Pretty cool when you think about it-Microsoft launched it's first attack on Lotus 1-2-3 through the Mac.

With Windows 8 seen as a make-or-break product for Microsoft, the company has already been adding licensing terms intended to strengthen its hand in the mobile market.