According to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, the Redmond company has sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses since the product was first released in October 2009, which is equal to about 7 copies a second being sold, ironically.
With Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 currently mid-life cycle, and Nintendo's Wii already on its way to being superseded by the company's Wii U, take is already turning to what hardware will power the replacements of this generation's games consoles.
Redmond-based Microsoft Corporation has demanded that Samsung Electronics pay the company $15 per smartphone handset it manufactures for using a wide variety of Microsoft’s patents on its “mobile platform”.
Microsoft’s beautiful native app for their Bing search engine on iPad has been updated featuring - besides the usual UI optimizations and bug fixes - a new Lasso tool. The app was launched back in April and received great reviews for its outstanding search experience that was built from the ground up to cater for the iPad.
Baidu, China's number one choice for search, has announced a new deal with Microsoft that will see the search company's English queries be directed to Bing, with the results being published to Baidu's own pages.
Rovio announced today that the popular Angry Birds game is now available for Windows Phone 7. With such a well-known game on board with Microsoft's platform, could Windows Phone have a future as a casual gaming device?
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 PC operating system will enter its RTM (release to manufacturing) phase in April of 2012, according to reports.
According to sources familiar to the matter, Microsoft has been working on a new Xbox console since 2006, one year after the original 360 was released. While it's unclear what the new console will contain, speculation rages on.
Talented game developer Andrew Russell has created a fully open-source tool that allows developers to port their Xbox 360 games...
Microsoft Studios, the developers behind the upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, has confirmed that the remastered shooter will have Kinect integration when it releases this year in November.
