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Microsoft to launch Windows 8 tomorrow
25 Oct 2012
According to Steve Ballmer, the launch of the Windows 8 would be one of the most important launches for the company since Windows 95 almost two decades earlier
Microsoft, HP among US firms that manoeuvred to avoid billions in taxes: Report
21 Sep 2012
A US senate committee memo says Microsoft Corp had resorted to aggressive international tax manoeuvres to avoid billions of dollars in taxes over the past three years
Microsoft warns of Poison Ivy in IE web browser
18 Sep 2012
Issue with downloaded apps due to digital security certificates: Microsoft
16 Aug 2012
Microsoft yesterday said app downloads from its online Windows Phone Marketplace might not work until it fixed a problem
One million users sign up for Hotmail successor Outlook.com
01 Aug 2012
The new web-based email service would eventually integrate Skype to rival Google's Talk that is embedded to Gmail
Microsoft reports first quarterly loss after 1986
20 Jul 2012
Software giant Microsoft reported its first quarterly loss after it went public in 1986, mainly from its failing online ad service aQuantive, which could not compete with rival Google Inc.
Microsoft faces EC fine for failure to comply with browser undertaking
18 Jul 2012
Regulators have threatened to penalise Microsoft for its failure to offer 28 million European customers the ability to choose their web browser
Microsoft to take $6.2-bn charge on 2007 online ad firm acquisition
03 Jul 2012
Microsoft said the accounting adjustment stemmed mostly from the acquisition of internet advertising firm aQuantive for $6.3 billion in August 2007
Microsoft to buy social network business software company Yammer for $1.2 bn
26 Jun 2012
Yammer already links into Microsoft products like Outlook email and SharePoint collaboration software and add functions to enhance these Microsoft offerings
Microsoft unveils ‘Surface’ line of tablet devices
19 Jun 2012
The Surface tablets are being offered in two versions - Windows RT running ARM chips like an iPad and Surface for Windows 8 Pro which runs Intel chips like a laptop
Microsoft to buy social network business software firm Yammer for $1-bn: report
15 Jun 2012
Yammer and Facebook share the same first investor, Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, and is backed by Social+Capital Partnership – a fund established by former Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya
Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550 mn
25 Apr 2012
Earlier this month, Microsoft paid over $1 billion for around 925 AOL patents and patent applications plus a license to AOL’s remaining portfolio of approximately 300 additional patents
America Online to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.56 bn
09 Apr 2012
Following the sale, New York-based AOL will continue to hold a significant patent portfolio of over 300 patents and patent applications spanning core and strategic technologies
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