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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

In a report by "The Intercept", leaked documents reveal that the United States Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have conducted extensive efforts to influence big tech platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Microsoft, and Wikipedia in order to censor online information or posts considered by the U.S. government to be disinformation.
2022-11-1

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

Many Skype users are unable to access the service. The Microsoft-owned company acknowledges the problem.
2015-09-21

Microsoft officially concludes Windows XP after 12 years of support.
2014-04-9

The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document.
2013-06-6

An influential investor and stock trader, David Einhorn, demands the resignation of Steve Ballmer, the CEO of software giant Microsoft, speaking at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference.
2011-05-25

Microsoft announces that it is purchasing Internet phone service Skype for US$8.5 billion.
2011-05-10

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledges the majority of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death.
2010-07-16

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