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A woman surfs the Internet on a computer for visitors at a registration desk at South Korean mobile carrier KT's headquarters in Seoul December 2, 2011.

Microsoft Corporation got itself waist-deep with Barnes & Noble, Inc. in spring 2012 when it shocked a lot of people by paying $300 million for a one-sixth stake in Nook Media LLC, the subsidiary of Barnes & Noble that was going to produce the NOOK e-readers and related digital content.

You can do a lot on an iPhone these days: stream online radio, watch videos in high-def, play games that are as addictive as anything on the Xbox 360.

U.S. retail sales of video games, hardware and accessories declined 25 percent in May as demand for aging game consoles continued to fade and fewer new games launched compared with last year, according to market researcher NPD Group.

Microsoft has found a face-saving way to put dent in its stacks of unshipped Surface RTs : The company has confirmed that it will sell the ARM-based tablet to students at a steep discount starting later this month, according to Microsoft maven Mary Jo Foley Pricing will start at $199 for a vanilla 32GB tablet, which has a sticker price of $499.

Summer is upon us, and as such Microsoft has rolled out a steep discount on the Surface RT for educational institutions, something revealed by Ryan Lowdermilk of the Windows Developer Show.

In the quest to make speech recognition tech faster and more accurate, Microsoft researchers traveled inside the human brain, so to speak.

Microsoft's phone and tablet market shares remain stuck in single digits, which suggests Windows 8's difficulties go beyond the mishmash of Metro and Desktop UIs Two weeks ago InfoWorld debuted Windows Red , our reimagining of Windows 8, which proposed splitting Windows 8 in two -- the Windows Desktop for PCs and laptops, and Metro for smartphones ... (more)

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died.

This year's stock market surge has stalled and the market is too choppy to provide any sort of reassurance.

Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in the requests between Dec. 1 and May 31, Apple Inc., the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement on its Website.

Microsoft Office is finally coming to the iPhone but you'll need an Office 365 subscription to take advantage of Office Mobile on Apple's handset.

Watch Dogs senior producer Dominic Guay discussed the relative power of the PS4 and Xbox One, as well as his company's upcoming game in an interview with NowGamer.

Examiner was the first to report last week that 4J Studios was investigating the possibility of transferring player created worlds from Minecraft : Xbox 360 Edition to Minecraft: Xbox One Edition .

So the negativity surrounding the Xbox One just keeps on piling and piling up. You'd almost feel sorry for the little guy considering how it's been so poorly marketed by Microsoft .

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In fact, you shouldn't be at-all surprised by the practice. Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance let slip in an article this past week that Microsoft is paying developers "$100,000 or more" to build apps for its Windows Phone platform - a lovely incentive, sure, for those whose budgets are too constrained or engineering staff is too busy to port a ... (more)

But the Zune legacy lived on with a fresh approach on interface design that led to the launch of Metro , the interface now prevalent in everything Microsoft does, from its mobile efforts, to its flagship Windows operating system, to the Xbox, and even to the visual identity of the company.

This undated screenshot provided by Microsoft shows Microsoft's Office software package iPhone application, which offers people the ability to read and edit their text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations on a phone.