Stuart J. Johnston

In just five days, more than a million iPhone users have downloaded Microsoft's free Windows Live Messenger app, a company official said on Monday.

Nearly a year after Windows 7 was originally released to enterprise customers and PC manufacturers, details of what's coming in the next major release of

Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's corporate vice president for corporate communications, must be having a frustrating month. With so many questions from the

Microsoft confirmed Thursday that although it isn't due to release the long-awaited public beta test version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) until the

Microsoft has been warning IT managers for months that it will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) on July 13. That should be no problem,

VirnetX, which last month reached an out-of-court settlement with Microsoft in a patent-infringement case, announced Tuesday that the U.S. Patent and

Microsoft and Aldata, a Helsinki, Finland-based developer of retail applications, announced Monday that Aldata will develop a set of vertical applications

Microsoft informed PC vendors this week that it will no longer provide Windows XP Home for installation on netbooks as of Oct. 22, 2010, the one-year

Microsoft today said it plan to release the beta versions for its first Service Pack updates to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) in late

Microsoft's Azure just came out of beta testing a few months ago, but the company has already signed up 10,000 paying customers to run their applications

Israel-based BackWeb Technologies announced Thursday that it has settled its patent dispute with Microsoft, the third patent suit that the software giant

When Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie announced the creation of the Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab last fall to focus on social