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Sources claim the search giant Google is set to roll out a true alternative to the Microsoft Office productivity suite.

He calls upon entrepreneurs to work hard, innovate, be bold, and take risks. He is fascinated at the prospect of education meeting neuroscience.

The cybercriminal gang behind a dangerous ransomware attack, which locks victims out of their computer systems and scams them by demanding cash to fix the problem, has added password-stealing functionality to the malware, according to Microsoft researchers that have documented some of the latest attacks.

Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a new Australian region for its Windows Azure family of cloud services.

MSN is holding a global contest that will give the winner $75,000 to produce an original short-form online show to be made up of 12 one-minute episodes.

If you've ever owned an Xbox , you're probably familiar with one of the most annoying payment systems known to humankind: Microsoft Points.

Obviously, the app won't work until sometime around 10 am Pacific Time on Tuesday but if you own a Windows Phone 8 device and are interested in watching the next Xbox reveal event, you might want to go ahead and download Live Video player ahead of time.

Microsoft Corp. is expected to unveil a new Xbox videogame console on Tuesday, nearly eight years since the company launched its last gaming device into a market that was far more certain than it is today.

According to The Verge, Microsoft is doing away with its current Points system to introduce a true currency system very soon.

Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets.

Surface Pro and a new 7 or 8 inch tablet are on its way, according to reports. Rumours also suggest that these tablets will hit the market pretty soon.

Global ICT giant Microsoft has organised an information technology workshop for Ghanaian students to motivate and help them develop applications that can be used to solve real life problems in Ghana and in African.

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write.

Google I/O, which saw the public launch of Google Compute Engine, also spawned a "I know you are, what am I," slapfest between two companies that would like to unseat Amazon Web Services as the king of public cloud.

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week.

I suppose it's a bit like that film The Matrix - you realize that you live in an ethereal and closed world only when you actually get to step outside of it.

DURANGO, Infinity, 720, whatever the name, it seems clear Microsoft will launch the next generation Xbox console on May 21.

Interesting new study on the effectiveness of speech-to-text technologies. Nice to see Microsoft beating Google Voice with the Exchange 2010 Voicemail Preview.

Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google.

Microsoft's second foray into the modern tablet market, the Surface Pro, will launch in the UK on 23 May 2013.