A UK court recently ruled that Microsoft’s SkyDrive name infringed on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), and the software maker has agreed to change the name…
Microsoft Wednesday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility.
The problem for Microsoft, though, is that patents looks like being its best hope for making money in the smart phone business for some time to come.
Microsoft’s shares took a beating following its gloomy fiscal 2013 earnings report earlier this month, in which it wrote down nearly a billion dollars on its unloved Surface RT fondleslabs….
The European Commission is waiting for Microsoft’s comments on a complaint against secure boot in Windows 8 before it takes its next step, according to the lawyer who filed the…
It looks like Nokia has finally come out in the open against Microsoft’s slow pace of pushing updates to Windows Phone 8. While the Finnish handset giant has been churning…
In a rare moment of corporate honesty, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted something about the Surface RT that you probably already knew: Microsoft made too many of them. Speaking…
Support for Linux and open-source Windows server and management suites has been a long path for Microsoft, a path it started down reluctantly but has become realistic about needing to…
A Linux Foundation executive revealed that the 2014 Toyota Lexus IS is the second major automobile to offer an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system based on Linux. Meanwhile, ABI Research projects…
As the problem of patent trolling grows, calls for reform are coming from all quarters — including from a famous economist who proposes major changes to the system.
Software made by Microsoft now runs on less than a quarter of devices that can connect to the Internet — down from over 90 per cent just four years ago.
Internet search, online advertising and smartphones all caught Microsoft napping, but is the behemoth finally stirring?
Microsoft on Thursday reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings as faltering PC sales ate into its Windows business and the company took an unexpected $900 million (£591m) charge for its inventory of…
As of Sunday, Linux kernel 3.11 is officially named “Linux for Workgroups,” borrowing the moniker Microsoft gave to Windows 3.11, way back in 1993.
Microsoft Corp. is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by as much as 30 percent as the device struggles to lure customers amid competition from machines such as…