First Windows, now Xbox: Why Microsoft is listening to the masses

It's about damn time. Microsoft has finally decided to start incentivising, handsomely, anyone that can find security flaws in the world's most popular desktop operating system. The Redmond gang will cough up US$100 000 for information about ...

Ever since Nokia announced in February 2011 that it planned to adopt Windows Phone as its exclusive smartphone platform, the company has enjoyed a 'special relationship' with Microsoft that goes beyond the partnerships enjoyed by other Windows Phone ...

Finding flaws in Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 can be a very lucrative career for a security researcher. Microsoft Microsoft Last year, Microsoft launched a novel approach to the bounty concept with its Bluehat contest. Rather than ...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it's finally offering its Dynamics GP and Dynamics NAV ERP applications on the Windows Azure cloud. The offering comes six months later than originally promised, but it gives customers a "secure, enterprise-class ...

VEVO has officially launched its own Windows 8 Metro app, thus providing adopters of Microsofts new operating system with quick access to 75,000 HD music videos and live concerts of popular artists from all over the world. Just like all the other ...

There is something to be said about not having to leave your chair or bed, for that matter to make purchases. There are many reasons, after all, that online shopping has become a default for many people. Of course, that does not totally discount ...

Microsoft's larger Surface Pro tablets, which run standard Windows 8, did better as compared to tablets running Windows RT.

BOSTON -- Microsoft is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major security holes in its software. Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT ) got itself waist-deep with Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS ) in spring 2012 when it shocked a lot of people by paying $300 million for a one-sixth stake in Nook Media LLC, the subsidiary of Barnes & Noble that ...