By Caleb Garling The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail. Google and Microsoft are locked in a battle for the hearts and ...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/berkeley-google-docs-microsoft/

AP New York: Microsoft Corp. is pulling out of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the Americas. It's joining Apple in saying that it prefers to put on its own events when the time is right to show off its products. ...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/2012-ces-tech-show-will-be-microsofts-last-ces/214373-11.html

by Roger Cheng December 21, 2011 9:31 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng Microsoft said it will pull out of the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012. The software giant is the latest company to pull out or avoid the tech confab altogether. ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57346172-75/microsoft-to-drop-ces-after-2012-show/

By Steven D. Jones An administrative law judge has ruled Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) violated one of seven Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) patents at issue in a legal spat over technology used in smartphones. Both sides expressed satisfaction at the ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111220-717020.html

By Chloe Albanesius After seven years, an antitrust case brought against Microsoft by Novell has ended with a hung jury. According to Utah's Deseret News, a 21-year-old security guard was the lone holdout in handing down a judgment against Microsoft. ...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397814,00.asp

SALT LAKE CITY—The lone holdout juror who prevented a Utah company from getting as much as $1.2 billion from one-time rival Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations says he's at peace with his decision. Corbyn Alvey, a 21-year-old security ...

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/12/18/juror_in_microsoft_case_at_peace_with_decision/

Novell's $1.4 billion lawsuit against Microsoft ended in a mistrial December 15 after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, Bloomberg reports. That could be considered a victory for Microsoft. Novell's suit, filed in 2004, ...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/17/microsoft-novell-lawsuit/

AP SALT LAKE CITY – A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in a company's $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month. ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/16/jury-deadlocked-in-1b-microsoft-antitrust-suit/

By Tom Harvey The jury that sat through a two-month trial of Utah-based Novell Inc.'s lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. ended its second day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict. The jury returned to the federal courthouse in downtown Salt Lake ...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53122934-79/microsoft-novell-jury-gates.html.csp

By Tom Harvey A jury began deliberations Wednesday morning on whether Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates engaged in anticompetitive behavior when he decided in 1994 not to support a feature in Windows 95, an action Utah-based Novell Inc. says caused it to ...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53109546-79/novell-microsoft-software-antitrust.html.csp

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced plans to launch unmanned rockets and carry cargo into space. The 58-year-old plans to develop a giant aircraft that would put spaceships into orbit, rather than lifting them off from a launch pad. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16171482

Microsoft has plans to allow applications licensed under the Open Source Initiative license in the Windows 8 app store, whenever it comes out, that is. We reported just a couple days ago that the Windows 8 public beta is slated to be released this ...

http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-to-allow-open-source-apps-in-windows-8-store-unlike-apple-12201792/

By David Murphy It's no secret that Microsoft's looking to make its Xbox 360 gaming console more of a staple element in living rooms worldwide. And that means slightly deemphasizing the gaming part of the console's abilities in favor of raw ...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397489,00.asp

By Ben Kuchera | Published December 10, 2011 3:00 PM This was an interesting week, with Microsoft updating the Xbox 360 with a new look and some new ways to search for, and consume, media content. The big story is the clause that prevents you from ...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/week-in-gaming-microsofts-legal-moves-with-the-360-serous-sam-3-indie-game-marketing.ars

By Mary Jo Foley | December 9, 2011, 12:30pm PST Version 5 — which my contacts are saying is the last major release of Silverlight — will be supported by Microsoft until 2021 — which is a much longer period of time than previous Silverlight releases ...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-releases-silverlight-5/11391

By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store. ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222518/Microsoft_We_can_remotely_delete_Windows_8_apps?taxonomyId=86

Microsoft's Windows 8 will prove a "split success," according to an analyst, with the operating system having a more difficult time with the traditional PC market. Microsoft is gearing up to release the Windows 8 beta in February 2012, ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsofts-Windows-8-Faces-Upgrade-Hurdles-Analyst-303086/

by Jay Greene December 6, 2011 5:27 PM PST Follow @iamjaygreene SAN FRANCISCO--In a bid to lure developers to its upcoming application store for Windows, Microsoft revealed a new pricing scheme designed to undercut rivals' marketplaces. ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57337914-75/microsoft-works-to-lure-devs-by-taking-less-for-app-sales/

News Analysis: Microsoft is still hugely profitable and has an immense amount of cash in the bank. But its profits depend mainly on long-established products such as Windows, Office, XBox and others. Here are 10 products, its own and from competitors, ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsofts-Fate-This-Decade-Rests-on-Success-of-10-Products-567127/

by Jay Greene December 4, 2011 9:00 PM PST Follow @iamjaygreene Microsoft will push out an update to Xbox consoles Tuesday, designed to get consumers to turn on the device every time they flip on their televisions, not just when they want to play games ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57335878-75/new-xbox-update-aims-to-put-microsoft-at-the-heart-of-tv-viewing/

Microsoft my launch its Office for iPad next year, a report from The Daily reveals. “According to sources, the tech giant is actively working on adapting its popular software suite for Apple's tablet. With the iPad making up over 80 percent of the ...

http://socialbarrel.com/microsoft-office-for-ipad-may-launch-next-year-%E2%80%93-report/28298/

Microsoft has officially denied any involvement with Carrier IQ and Apple says that most of its iOS 5 devices no longer use the controversial software. With the debate around Carrier IQ beginning to heat up, all the companies that don't use the ...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/microsoft-and-apple-confirm-no-carrier-iq-spy-software-on-ios-5-or-windows-phone/

By Paul McDougall InformationWeek A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Microsoft is betting that an interactive demo is even more valuable. That's why the software maker has launched a mobile site that appears to turn an Android-based device or ...

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/232200594

by Frank Watson, December 1, 2011 Comments Bloomberg reported that the Silver Lake consortium - which includes Microsoft - has offered $16.60 per share for a minority stake in Yahoo, much lower than the $31 per share tender made in 2008. ...

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2129133/Ouch-Microsofts-Latest-Bid-for-Yahoo-Half-of-2008-Offer

Microsoft is developing a version of Office for the iPad for release sometime in 2012, according to a new rumor. Microsoft will bring a tablet-friendly version of Office to the iPad sometime in 2012, according to The Daily. ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Office-Coming-to-iPad-Rumor-187870/