Microsoft Corp. unveiled its Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system today on what are being called “Windows phones” that focus on touch-friendly features and quicker navigation, acknowledging the ...

This special report marks the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, which launched on November 20, 1985, and traces its four ...

Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of German publishing giant Axel Springer, sat down recently with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for what the company called a "wide-ranging interview". It was nothing of the kind ...

Microsoft is investing in a hot start-up that’s trying to weaken Google's hold over Android. People familiar with the matter say Microsoft is putting money into Cyanogen, which is building a version ...

Microsoft is paying "billions of dollars" to Nokia to develop and promote Windows Phone 7 handsets under the partnership announced in February, the companies disclosed Thursday. Microsoft and Nokia ...

It was a proto-netbook. It was a palmtop. It was a PDA. It was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. Its parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it ...

Late to the party and playing catch-up ever since Microsoft history on mobile is littered with false starts. Microsoft's are pinning their hopes on the acquisition of Activision Blizzard to finally ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that giving up on mobile was one of the toughest decisions he had to make when taking over the reins at Redmond. In a recent interview with ...

Last week’s big Redmond stories were the release of Dynamics Live CRM and the announcement that Windows Server 2008 would come out in February of next year along with the next revs of SQL Server and ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the open-source operating system (OS) Linux is a perfect solution for Elon Musk’s Microsoft Windows OS issues. He invited Musk to the desktop Linux ...

Inventors at Microsoft in a U.S. patent describe a "foldable display device," but it looks very much like a mobile phone. The patent assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC in Redmond was ...