Stuart J. Johnston

Over the past 18 years, Microsoft's Research Division (MSR), a large group of computer researchers in key locations worldwide, has come up with some

Automating in-car entertainment, information, and communications functions via voice recognition technology has been an important Microsoft goal for more

Microsoft Tuesday lost its appeal of a patent lawsuit regarding Office 2007's "custom XML" feature and now has to remove the offending feature from

If a patent that Microsoft is seeking is granted, the old saw that "on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog" may be history. That's because computer

Maybe the job market isn't as moribund as all the news reports say -- especially if you're a CFO with a reputation for big cost-cutting moves. Chris

Not good enough. Earlier this week, Microsoft pulled its Chinese Twitter competitor and apologized after being notified that the third-party developer

Microsoft's long-running feud with the European Commission (EC) may finally be at an end -- or maybe not. Neelie Kroes, the outgoing commissioner for

For the second time in recent weeks, Microsoft has pulled a product developed by a third-party due to claims that its code ran afoul of intellectual

Plurk, a fledgling microblogging service that has a growing audience in Asia, alleged in a blog post Monday that Microsoft China is copying not only the

In a move aimed at supporting future large memory capacity flash devices, Microsoft has started licensing its follow-up to the FAT file system to third

Got the urge to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 but are still afraid to jump in? Those who got Windows 7 pre-installed on a new PC are

Microsoft is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the opening of its Silicon Valley campus, in the heart of the technology industry. Okay, so the campus