New site gives customers a single online destination to shop for and compare products across entire Microsoft lineup. This week consumers are getting a new, easy way to access Microsoft products: The Microsoft Store. Microsoft Store offers...

Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said. Strong sales growth came after Microsoft cut prices...

Microsoft, to the delight of PC buyers and late-adopting enterprise customers, won't let Windows XP die. In June, they stopped selling the operating system at retail and stopped allowing PC makers to install it on most machines, forcing them to switch...

In its results for the financial year 2008, Microsoft has stated that it has sold as many as 180 million copies of Windows Vista, since its launch in January 2007. In its annual financial statement, Microsoft has announced that the company has...

While the economy is sagging, technology giants Microsoft and IBM reported double-digit growth in quarterly revenue and profits. Microsoft Corp's net income for its fiscal fourth-quarter rose 42 percent to 4.3 billion, or 46 cents a share. Revenue...

Microsoft let everyone know just how well it has been doing. According to company officials, up to this point, 180 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold and it seems that more and more people are beginning to show interest in the software. As...

A new 20-page white paper from Microsoft, “The Business Value of Windows Vista,” breaks down the five main areas of benefit that companies could expect in upgrading from XP to Vista now. The five areas are the usual topics for evaluation: security,...

Is Microsoft's vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to...

The deadline that Microsoft imposed on Yahoo to reach a negotiated merger agreement passed three days ago, and the two companies are still not talking. At a conference at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., its general counsel, Bradford L....

HP's ProCurve Networking has integrated with Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP) to protect networks and provide customised access policies across both wired and wireless environments. "The solution is an open, secure, standards-based...

Dell confirmed Friday that customers wishing to purchase a PC with Windows XP preinstalled will still be able to do that -- even after Microsoft officially cuts off the OS in June. Because of a licensing clause in Microsoft's system builder license,...

Microsoft has completed its $1.2 billion purchase of FAST Search & Transfer and will install the company's CEO as head of a newly formed enterprise search group, it said Friday. FAST will become a subsidiary of Microsoft and its research team will...

The official GA release of Microsoft’s CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall...