Sources: IGN
Microsoft announces that it will cut 10,000 jobs, around 5% of its global workforce, amid a slowdown in consumer spending. 2023-01-18
Pope Francis, in tandem with IBM and Microsoft, calls for AI technologies that risk violating human rights, such as facial recognition software, to be regulated. 2020-02-28
Microsoft acknowledges that a Windows 10 update has stopped millions of webcams from working. 2016-08-22
Microsoft agrees to buy professional networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion (£18 billion). 2016-06-13
The U.S. company Microsoft has sued the United States, alleging that it has been prevented from disclosing warrants to the company's customers in violation of the company's constitutional rights. 2016-04-14
Microsoft announces its upcoming Windows 10 consumer version preview for January 21. 2014-12-12
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
After receiving negative feedback, Microsoft decides to change many features of its upcoming Xbox One. 2013-06-19
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
Microsoft Research and Wikipedia have joined forces to launch a beta version of a new multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia named WikiBhasha. 2010-10-21