BOSTON, June 19 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major security holes in its soft

Mark Cerny, lead system architect of the new Sony PlayStation 4, appeared on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" yesterday evening to show off the new gaming system. As they kicked the PS4's tires together, Fallon said, "The big story that everyone's talk

With the original Surface approaching its one-year anniversary, rumors for the follow-up -- the presumably titled Surface 2 -- are beginning to heat up.

Adobe rises on solid results, but the tech sector is weighed down by sliding shares of Apple and Microsoft.

It’s no secret that I like the Xbox 360 controller and despise the DualShock 3 controller. Maybe it’s because I have larger hands that the DualShock 3 was never comfortable and the Xbox 360 controller was. I got a chance to try both co

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Adobe Systems Inc.jumped more than 6% in early trades on Wednesday a day after reporting solid results. But the tech sector was weighed down by sliding shares of major tech giants, led by Hewlett-Packard Co. ,

Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. jumped more than 6% in early trades on Wednesday a day after reporting solid results.

The computing industry is going through a major transformation, and this has big implications for players like Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Microsoft may have to play nice with Apple.

A drastic discount for school administrators for Microsoft's new tablet turns heads.

The release of Office Mobile in a limited corner of iOS may help Microsoft to further its advertising claims that without the productivity software, devices are limited.

Microsoft isn't opening hundreds of mini-stores without some third-party help.

An insurance company in Guatemala is suing Microsoft for allegedly raiding its offices with armed police officers to search for pirated software.  Paul Brinkmann of the South Florida Business Journal, first reported on the lawsuit on Monday.&nbs

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 millio

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from ba

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 millio

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus...

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 millio

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 millio

What Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are doing to protect your privacy.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Microsoft's main troubles in its traditional businesses have become clear. PC sales could drop by as much as 10% this year and a lackluster response to its Windows 8 operating system has prodded the company to begin work on a

Many consumers think that if they complain enough, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will remove the anti-piracy and anti-used game measures that have infuriated so many people.

Both Sony and Microsoft are coming out with new versions of their videogame consoles this holiday season. Microsoft announced its new console, the Xbox One, first. Gamers hated two things about it… It has to be hooked up to the Internet to wo

A few years ago, a fast-growing startup, adding staff at a breakneck pace, hired a facilities manager as a contractor without asking too many questions. That startup was Yammer, now part of Microsoft. And that contractor - Marcus Tillman - is now beh

Not extinct yet! Even though some think old tech companies are boring, investors love HP, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft this year.

Microsoft, I’ve been an Xbox fan since you were still calling it the X-Box. Back when your best games still had “Madness” at the end. Back when Bill Gates was still CEO. I’m a fanboy, but I’m losing my faith an

Microsoft is giving out its tablets like candy.  Last week, Microsoft announced it would give away Surface RT tablets to the 10,000 teachers attending the International Society for Technology in Education conference later this month. Earlier th

In the quest to make speech recognition tech faster and more accurate, Microsoft researchers traveled inside the human brain, so to speak.  Microsoft has built a tech called "deep neural networks" which processes speech in a similar way as the h

Large enterprises are growing more comfortable with using Windows Azure, Microsoft's rival to Amazon's cloud computing service, a Microsoft exec said Friday.  More than half of Fortune 500 firms are now using Windows Azure, which lets customers

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- TheStreet's Jim Cramer and Ross Kenneth Urken are with "Mad Money" research director Nicole Urken to discuss Internet privacy in the wake of the NSA scandal.Cramer, who is still using Microsoft'sInternet Explorer to do his Int

Microsoft may be on to something in its new campaign for Windows 8, which features various Windows tablets alongside the iPad and a Siri-like voice complaining about Apple's inadequacies. More than 600,000 people have viewed this new commercial in th

Mashable made a handy, short video showing how Microsoft Office works on your iPhone. Remember, this isn't the "real" Microsoft Office for iPhone that you've been waiting for. BI's resident gadgets guru Steve Kovach tells me  it's the "365" vers

Microsoft continues to emit mixed signals as of now

Microsoft is planning to update Windows this summer. But the changes don't resolve the operating system's fundamental problem.

The world's software king spent a decade providing puny returns, but has surged to begin 2013.Is there still time for investors to jump in?

Can this company turn itself around?

By Bill Maurer: In each of the past two years, I've written a preview article discussing how much I expect Microsoft (MSFT) to raise its dividend that year. Those two articles are found below:2011 - How Much Should Microsoft Raise Its Dividend?2012 -

Former Microsoft manager wants to create the 'Starbucks of Pot.'

Heard on the Street: Microsoft has made too much money for too long. A deal with Best Buy seems to be the latest sign it has to give some back.

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been inching closer to making Office available on any device. By launching its Office Mobile for iPhone app on Friday, Microsoft is just about there.

Microsoft's move to open 500 stores in Best Buy locations sounds too familiar.

By John Dowdee:Technology has been an exciting but volatile sector over the past three decades. In the 1980's, the mainframe computer was replaced by the personal computer and Microsoft began to dominate the operating system market with the introduct

What were the biggest surprises from this year's E3 conference?

A look at three different businesses and the developments we saw from Microsoft.

The two giants will be forced to adapt, and that may include lower margins in the long term.

Microsoft will soon take over the entire computer department inside hundreds of Best Buy stores in North America, after announcing plans for all-new 'Windows Stores', eWeek reports. The plans call for Windows Stores to showcase Microsoft hardware and

The Associated Press has published a detailed report about how the NSA's PRISM program — established to acquire data from tech giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — is a small part of a massive domestic dragnet run by

Facebook and Microsoft have negotiated with national security officials to reveal limited revelations about government orders to turn over data

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallo