Sources: IGN
Microsoft reports widespread outages across Outlook, Teams, and other 365 programs. The outages are later resolved during the evening. 2024-11-25
United States judge Jacqueline Scott Corley approves technology company Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, the largest video game acquisition in history, dismissing the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust injunction request. 2023-07-11
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
Chinese IT company ByteDance agrees to divest from the U.S. branch of TikTok, in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to ban the app within the country. If the deal is approved, Microsoft will handle the app's personal data rather than ByteDance, averting a main source of contention with U.S. officials. 2020-08-1
Microsoft announces deeper-than-expected job cuts as part of its cloud-oriented restructuring, almost halving the newly-purchased Nokia phone business. 2014-07-17
Microsoft announces a major vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 to 11 that could enable hackers to gain access and user rights to its customers' computers. 2014-04-28
The software company Microsoft internally promotes Satya Nadella to be its next CEO and appoints John W. Thompson as its chairman. 2014-02-4
NBA 2K14 was released for Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.2013-10-1
Smartphone wars: Microsoft wins a much-watched lawsuit, with a federal judge finding that Motorola had breached agreements about the licensing of its patents. 2013-09-5
Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble and manufacturers Foxconn and Inventec over their Nook e-readers, claiming that they infringe patents. 2011-03-21