Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, received a patent for technology that would permit players of video games to multitask. Patent 8,083,593, issued Dec. 7, is for a game-playing console with a built-in digital video recorder. According to the patent, ... Continue Reading »

"Well, I made the transition to work full-time on the Foundation, and that'll be what I do for the rest of my life," Gates told the Sydney Morning Herald in an interview published today. "I'm part-time involved with Microsoft, ... Continue Reading »

Microsoft has quietly launched a support website where experts charge $99 for one- or two-hour sessions designed to rid PCs of malware, speed up a machine or solve problems with Windows or Office. Answer Desk debuted with no fanfare from Microsoft, ... Continue Reading »

For a while now in many users’ homes, the Microsoft Kinect has been relegated to the same fate as the system that inspired it, the Nintendo Wii. Both have been sitting around collecting dust now, waiting for something to come ... Continue Reading »

Microsoft has issued a temporary fix alongside a computer virus recognized as "Duqu" that hides in Word files and uses a "zero-day susceptibility" which can silently hand over control of PCs organization Windows. The move came as security companies warn the ... Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago Microsoft India's Chairman, Bhaskar Pramanik, was at a banquet hall unveiling Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango, the Redmond-based software maker's latest mobile operating system. But while outwardly confident, Pramanik and his team at Microsoft India must ... Continue Reading »

After Microsoft and Samsung announced a patent-licensing agreement last month involving Google’s Android operating system, Google issued a statement saying, in part:a "This is the same tactic we’ve seen time and again from Microsoft. Failing to succeed in the smartphone ... Continue Reading »

The announcement would have be missed by many, but its shock is potentially far-ranging in the shopper electronics (division: mobile devices) breathing space. Microsoft executive vice president and general guidance Brad Smith and deputy wide-ranging counsel Horacio Gutierrez posted a blog ... Continue Reading »

After months of position its smartphone platform as the counterpoint to high-end competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and some Google Android devices, Microsoft plans on aiming Windows handset at a less-pricey marketplace segment. “We are dramatically enlargement the set of price ... Continue Reading »

Sale of Windows, which still runs additional than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, edged up only 2 percent on or after the year-ago quarter, in line through limp PC sales across the board. That broke the streak of three ... Continue Reading »