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Weekend Reading: May 2 Edition — Nokia joins the family, Xbox goes original, YouthSpark challenge winners announced
Hopefully your week has been as filled to the brim with excitement as ours. If not, Weekend Reading...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 05/02/2014
Updating Internet Explorer and Driving Security
The following post is from Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft. The...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 05/01/2014
Xbox One to launch in China in September
The Xbox One will launch in China this September, with the all-in-one games and entertainment system...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 04/29/2014
Microsoft looks to remake the mobile market with acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business
Microsoft finalized its acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday. In...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 04/25/2014
Microsoft acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business finalized
On Friday, Microsoft finalized its acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business. Microsoft...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 04/25/2014
Innovating toward greater sustainability - Earth Day 2014
The following post is from Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft. This week marks...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/22/2014
The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date
The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal &...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/21/2014
“I’m deaf. I’m British. Be warned.”
Editor's note: The following is a post from Jennifer Warnick, a writer for...
Author: Steve Wiens Date: 04/21/2014
Go behind-the-scenes of Cortana with Microsoft Research
Most of us can only dream of having the perfect personal assistant, one who is always there when...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 04/18/2014
Weekend Reading: April 18th Edition — Converting big data to ambient intelligence
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on creating a data culture, an Internet...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 04/18/2014
NPD numbers: ‘Titanfall’ for Xbox One was No. 1 selling game in March
“Titanfall” for Xbox One was named the top-selling game in March, according to NPD Group...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 04/17/2014
Microsoft and São Paulo government partner to release crime monitoring system
On Wednesday, Mariano de Beer, general manager of Microsoft Brazil, announced that Microsoft and the...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 04/16/2014
San Francisco City and County moving to Office 365 for cloud email
The City and County of San Francisco is upgrading its cloud email to Office 365 for 29,000 employees...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 04/10/2014
Privacy authorities across Europe approve Microsoft’s cloud commitments
The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legal and...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/10/2014
Chinese Ministry of Commerce approves Microsoft-Nokia deal
The following post is from David Howard, Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel,...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/08/2014
Microsoft announces new cloud experience and tools to deliver the cloud without complexity
The following post is from Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group,...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/03/2014
Microsoft to developers at Build: You have the power
On Wednesday at the Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft outlined new...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/02/2014
Tune in to the Build 2014 webcast
Build 2014 takes place from April 2-4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with keynotes on the...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 04/02/2014
Japanese banking company migrates 30,000 client terminals from Windows XP to Windows 8
Resona Holdings, Inc., which oversees the operations of Resona Bank and other group subsidiaries in...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 04/01/2014
A cloud for everyone, on every device
The following post is from Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. In my initial...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/27/2014
Microsoft Azure the perfect solution for on-demand video service blinkbox
Leave it to the cloud to make even movie viewing a better experience. That’s what Microsoft...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 03/26/2014
Microsoft becomes the first global public cloud provider in China with the general availability of Microsoft Azure in the region
The following post is from Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/26/2014
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
The following post is from Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director, Microsoft...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/25/2014
Jamming at the corner of Cloud and Mobile
Editor's note: The following is a post by Jennifer Warnick, a writer for microsoft.com/stories....
Author: Steve Wiens Date: 03/24/2014
An update on Nokia Devices and Services acquisition
The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal &...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/23/2014
Weekend Reading: March 21st Edition – The Madness of March, SQL Server 2014 and a school in the cloud
Winter is supposed to go out like lamb, but here at Weekend Reading it’s proven to be more...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 03/21/2014
Microsoft is proud to bring We Day back to Seattle!
The following post is from Lisa Brummel, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Microsoft....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/21/2014
Data driven insights – bringing Big Data to 1 billion people
The following post is from Susan Hauser, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Partner Group,...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/20/2014
North Carolina’s largest county saves $3.2 million with Office 365, Windows Azure and Surface Pro
The following post is from Michael Donlan, Vice President of State and Local Government, Microsoft....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/19/2014
SQL Server 2014 released to manufacturers, will be generally available April 1
The following post is from Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, Data Platform Group. Today I am...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/18/2014
Microsoft’s Leslie Lamport wins the Turing Award, the ‘Nobel Prize in Computing’
Leslie Lamport, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, has been awarded the 2013...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 03/18/2014
'Titanfall' now available on Xbox One
As the clock struck midnight on March 11, stores around the world began selling...
Author: Steve Clarke (Microsoft News Center) Date: 03/11/2014
Meet five Microsoft women inspiring change in technology
It takes everyone to innovate. And in advance of International Women’s Day, March 8,...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 03/06/2014
Life in the digital crosshairs: Experience the untold story
On Saturday, July 13, 2001, Microsoft was alerted to a nasty piece of malware called “Code...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/05/2014
Microsoft highlights mobile and cloud technologies for government at Federal Forum
The following post is from Greg Myers, Vice President, Microsoft Federal. On Tuesday in Washington...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/04/2014