The ITC rules Motorola Mobility smartphones running Google's Android OS violate a Microsoft ActiveSync patent. Technology giant Microsoft claimed victory this weekend as the International Trade Commission (ITC) issued its final determination in ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Wins-Patent-Suit-Against-Motorola-Android-Handsets-808814/

Microsoft wants users to update to Windows Phone 7.5 so they can continue to download apps from the Marketplace portal. Never let it be said that Microsoft fails to tell you when you need to upgrade. A blog post from Microsoft's director of program ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Warns-Users-to-Upgrade-to-Windows-Phone-75-792338/

Not everyone agreed with that Microsoft ad copy. Microsoft published a "brief" history of the Windows interface in a blog post today that offered some flashes of candor about Vista and Windows 95 and argued that the tablet as we know it today is one ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57437562-92/microsoft-opines-vista-was-cheesy-three-devices-too-many/

Article after article warned of the competitive threat in search posed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) — Yahoo — even as the latter was on the verge of a long, painful decline. Finally, there was a fixation on valuation that caused ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-media-hated-google-but-embrace-facebook-2012-05-17?link=home_carousel

By Tim Greene, NetworkWorld When Microsoft launches Windows 8 Release Preview next month the operating system will have improved navigation features for users who like more than one monitor to display all their applications.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255676/microsoft_tunes_up_windows_8_multiscreen.html

By Edward C. Baig Microsoft unveiled an upgraded version of its Bing search engine focused more on social discovery. Microsoft unveiled an upgraded version of its Bing search engine focused more on social discovery. Three years after launching its ...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/story/2012-05-15/bing-social-review/54981376/1

By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft today declined to comment when asked whether it believed it's required to offer a ballot screen in Windows 8 to European users for selecting rival browsers in the new operating system's desktop mode.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227148/EU_Microsoft_browser_deal_requires_ballot_screen_in_Windows_8

Herb Kohl's office to examine Mozilla's complaint against Microsoft over browser API access in Windows RT By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - The US Senate Judiciary Committee will look into accusations by Mozilla that Microsoft is restricting access to ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227121/Senate_to_look_at_Mozilla_s_browser_competition_allegations

Analysis: Mozilla says that Apple banning Firefox from iPads and iPhones is OK, but Microsoft restricting the browser from using some features on Windows 8 tablets may be illegal. By Preston Gralla, Computerworld How's this for hypocrisy: Mozilla says ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255511/mozillas_hypocrisy_apple_can_block_firefox_but_microsoft_cant.html

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say. The updated Bing search engine, unveiled on Thursday, ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227096/Microsoft_Bing_goes_social_in_search_war_with_Google_

Microsoft calls the changes to Bing that it's implementing "the most significant" since it launched the service three years ago. By Janet I. Tu No comments have been posted to this article. Microsoft made a big push Thursday in its race to catch up ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2018185070_microsoftbing11.html

By DON CLARK And SHIRA OVIDE The company behind the Firefox Web browser says Microsoft Corp. is hindering its ability to distribute the software on some devices being designed for the next version of the Windows operating system. Mozilla Corp.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577394760696347108.html

By Juan Carlos Perez IDG News Service - Microsoft has fixed 23 vulnerabilities in its software products, including several considered critical, the company said Tuesday in its monthly security patch report. The security holes, included in seven ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226986/Microsoft_security_patches_include_fixes_for_Word_Office_Windows?taxonomyId=18

By Ian Sherr and Shira Ovide SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Amid flagging sales for Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Xbox 360 videogame system, the company Monday began testing a new payment model that gives customers an option to pay less for the game console ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120507-712329.html

By Colin Neagle, NetworkWorld Just hours after releasing the advance notification for May's Patch Tuesday release, which consists of seven bulletins, Microsoft brought some closure to its biggest security threat of the year.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255045/microsoft_slams_door_on_mapp_leaks_readies_patches.html

Here's another log to throw in the rumor fire: According to IGN, who spoke to undisclosed sources to unearth this one, the Xbox 720 – or whatever the name of Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor happens to be – is allegedly already being manufactured at a ...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404029,00.asp

Microsoft's decision to charge extra for the Windows 8 Media Center and DVD playback is not sitting well with users judging from responses to the company's blog. by Lance Whitney May 4, 2012 7:56 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Would you pay extra for Windows ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57427979-75/microsoft-angers-users-by-cutting-media-center-out-of-windows-8/

Microsoft (MSFT) is investing $300 million for a 17.6 percent stake in a new subsidiary that combines Barnes & Noble's (BKS) Nook e-reader and college bookstore businesses. The transaction, which will turn the software maker into a direct competitor of ...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-03/briefs?campaign_id=rss_null

By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Microsoft will retire the Windows Live brand as it gets ready to release what it describes as a more connected set of online consumer services with the launch of its Windows 8 operating system.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/254897/microsoft_to_retire_windows_live_brand_ahead_of_windows_8_launch.html

By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft on Monday declined to say whether Barnes and Noble's Nook app for Metro will be embedded into Windows 8 or Windows RT. Earlier in the day, Microsoft announced it was investing $300 million to acquire a 17.6% ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226745/Microsoft_mute_on_Nook_app_s_bundling_with_Windows_8

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and JULIE BOSMAN Microsoft agreed to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Barnes & Noble's Nook division on Monday, giving the bookstore chain stronger footing in the hotly contested electronic book market and creating ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/microsoft-deal-adds-to-battle-over-e-books/

Investigators to call Apple and Microsoft, among others, to explain why it costs more to download software and other content Down Under than in other countries. by Steven Musil April 29, 2012 8:26 PM PDT Follow @stevenmusil Australia's Parliament is ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57423920-93/australia-probes-download-software-pricing-disparities/

Indeed, he says Microsoft, to make them so pretty, might have had help from above. by Chris Matyszczyk April 28, 2012 11:50 AM PDT Today's philosophical discussion is on the subject of beauty and reincarnation. Specifically, beauty as it is beheld by ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57423684-71/woz-microsoft-might-have-reincarnated-steve-jobs/

But it's also a stab straight at the heart of Microsoft's mainstream business software, Microsoft Office. While Google's productivity application suites, Docs (now incorporated into Drive) and Apps (for businesses), have been making some headway into ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57422601-93/how-googles-drive-helps-kill-microsofts-office/

By Ian Paul, PCWorld Apr 26, 2012 7:21 AM Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant's new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/254537/5_reasons_microsoft_skydrive_is_better_than_google_drive.html