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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offers a glimmer of hope to Windows XP fans, saying the software giant may reconsider its decision to stop selling it soon.  

Microsoft know that they have been losing a bucket load of money through pirate copies of Windows XP, but the software giant has launched a new set of antipiracy tools which will help to combat this problem. There are so many people running bogus copies of Windows XP Professional, and Microsoft...  

MICROSOFT and Sony are taking their battle for gaming supremacy into cyberspace, launching competing virtual worlds. Microsoft announced its New Xbox ...  

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is again the richest American, deposing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, ...  

Investment fund Mithras Capital Partners, unhappy that its small stake in Yahoo is eroding in value, wants Microsoft to save the day and make another bid ...  

The Xboxes were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California, for eventual delivery to Hong Kong at the time of the loss, ...  

By Paul McDougall Microsoft will pay $524 million to acquire European e-commerce operator Greenfield Online, according to a document filed Thursday with the ...  

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek’s latest prediction is that Microsoft is likely to buy Research in Motion for $50 a share. Misek had a similar theory ...  

It’s been tricky keeping separate all of the “layers” in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. ...  

By Darryl K. Taft Microsoft shares more detail about its “Oslo” modeling platform, naming the components and its delivery vehicle. The company will deliver ...  

Microsoft will issue 11 security updates next week -- the same number it shipped in August when pushed out the most patches in 18 months -- to fix bugs in ...  

Washington Mutual has filed a list of nearly 700 potential creditors in its bankruptcy case, ranging from Seattle-area companies such as Microsoft Corp. and ...  

By Gregg Keizer October 9, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today said it will issue 11 security updates next week -- the same number it shipped in ...  

By Paul McDougall Microsoft said Wednesday that it is planning to launch a major overhaul of its Xbox interface on Nov. 19th. "On that day, millions of Xbox ...  

Just as the US is in its last weeks of a heated presidential campaign, Microsoft's Live Labs group has launched a Web-based application that surfaces what ...