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Human interaction with computers could improve with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, which will be better at recognizing gestures, motion and voice.

In a key hire, Jawbone said today that it had hired Mindy Mount, a top corporate VP at Microsoft, as its president.

Though the Windows 8 user interface still sits in the "generally designed for touch" category, Microsoft isn't being shy about continuing to push their hardware line with clickables like the Sculpt Comfort Mouse and the Sculpt Mobile Mouse this week.

A few weeks back I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8. One of the first things that I did was install the Hyper-V Manager and I pinned it to my taskbar.

After the big Spring launches comes the bragging and the competitive advertising.

Microsoft is the first major U.S. provider to launch a public cloud in China. Windows Azure is rolling out in China through partner 21Vianet Group , a large carrier-neutral internet data services provider.

Instead of spending $60 billion to rip-and-replace the scourge of incompatible heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems on its sprawling campus, Microsoft decided to practice-what-it-preaches by using Big Data running on its Windows Servers to cut energy wastes: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington uses ... (more)

Microsoft's new-style "Metro" Windows 8 apps were supposed to draw people to the operating system in droves, but the exact opposite is happening.

As noted by The Verge , Microsoft has released a new Windows 8 tablet ad that uses Siri to highlight a few of the iPad's shortcomings, depicting the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet as a robust productivity machine while implying that the iPad is more suited to entertainment.

Google specifically complained that the app doesn't show ads to users, which is YouTube's main revenue stream.

Information Technology is a key to future success for today's youth. At Model High School, students have taken a giant leap into the future as the school has joined Microsoft's IT Academy.

May 21st was a big day in entertainment history as Microsoft revealed the new Xbox One entertainment console.

The Microsoft partner network is Microsoft's 'official' body for channel partners.

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure.

Microsoft isn't going to sit idly by as companies like Leap Motion and Thalmic Labs bring motion control to PCs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Phillip A. Bullock, right, Apple's head of Tax Operations, are sworn in on Capitol Hill.

Frankly, I don't know what took them so long but with the initial response to the Nokia Lumia 520/21 Microsoft is finally acknowledging publicly that the key to winning market share in the U.S. is through the low-end of the market by providing a superior experience for a better price than what is currently offered by either Apple or the gaggle of ... (more)

Ever since Redmond-based Microsoft introduced their latest operating system, Windows 8 , there has been much grumbling about the radical change, confusion on how to find your way around on the new system and bad promotion.

Chunky monkey, 10 pc larger Xbox 360 - One redesign in 2010 The Xbox 360 has had two main designs.

Microsoft is finally joining the eighth generation of videogame consoles - and its system is meant to make every other system obsolete.