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Microsoft announces that it will lay off 650 Microsoft Gaming employees as part of cuts to its workforce.
2024-09-12

Microsoft officially ends support for the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft says its Windows 7 users can still use their computers, but warns they will be at "greater risk for viruses and malware".
2020-01-14

The human rights group International Rights Advocates formally launches a lawsuit in the United States against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (Google), Tesla, Inc., Dell and Microsoft on behalf of 14 Congolese families whose children died or were injured in Copperbelt mines that supply cobalt for the firms' lithium-ion battery products.
2019-12-16

Microsoft issues an emergency patch for its Internet Explorer browser to close a vulnerability that allowed cybercriminals to install malware via boobytrapped websites.
2019-09-24

The release also includes programs targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems. Microsoft announces that it had already fixed most (but not all) of these exploits.
2017-04-14

Microsoft agrees to buy professional networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion (£18 billion).
2016-06-13

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

Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered in Taiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report.
2011-08-1

Barnes & Noble settles an intellectual property dispute over the design of its ebook reader, the Nook.
2011-03-2

The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security.
2010-01-16