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Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

The rumors were true: Microsoft has formally offered a bid of $44.6 billion for ailing web giant Read more...

Microsoft offers services, tools to developers

During his speech this week at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company is opening up a bit. "What's ours is yours," he said. Microsoft pledged Read more...

D-Day arrives for Vista

It's D-Day for Microsoft as it formally debuts Vista, the long-awaited operating system that's been Read more...

Ballmer: Vista brings a new computing era

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer describes the arrival and impending deployment of Vista as the dawn of a new era in business computing. While he admits that he can't claim the new operating system Read more...

Ballmer's take on Vista's market impact

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer describes the soon-to-be-released Vista operating system as his company's biggest technology project to date. While he won't even guess how much has been spent on Read more...

Legal battle won't delay Vista launch

Though security vendor Symantec appears pretty serious in its legal fight against Microsoft over patent technology related to the upcoming Vista operating system, Microsoft, for its part, says the Read more...

Microsoft outlines open source strategy

Most recently it was Novell sprouting off about how open source was the future. Now it seems Microsoft is seeing the Linux light as well. CEO Steve Ballmer told a Silicon Valley gathering that his Read more...

Web services will make software cheaper

If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's expectations come true, software and application prices will soon be decreasing as software functionality and security aspects gain speed and greater traction. Read more...