Sources: C-Net
Microsoft cuts roughly 4,800 jobs, primarily within its Xbox and commercial sales divisions, while divesting game studios Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs. 2026-07-6
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority approves Microsoft's takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. 2023-10-13
The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority blocks Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal will leave video gamers with less choice and will reduce innovation. 2023-04-26
Microsoft announces another 7,800 job cuts primarily in its struggling phone division acquired from Nokia. 2015-07-8
Microsoft announces its upcoming Windows 10 consumer version preview for January 21. 2014-12-12
Microsoft officially concludes Windows XP after 12 years of support. 2014-04-9
The U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information. 2014-01-27
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a 2009 jury verdict in a patent dispute at the expense of software giant Microsoft in favor of Canadian company i4i. 2011-06-9
Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, promises that Windows 8 will be on the market in 2012. 2011-05-23
Microsoft launches two new mobile phones marketed to young people. The phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, are built around their social networking features. 2010-04-12