Sources: IGN
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
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 announces that Paint will cease to be updated after the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update because its functionality was "integrated into Paint 3D". Paint was first released 32 years ago. 2017-07-24
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
Many Skype users are unable to access the service. The Microsoft-owned company acknowledges the problem. 2015-09-21
The smartphone wars are re-ignited, as Rockstar Consortium, a company owned by companies including Apple and Microsoft, starts wide-ranging legal action against Google, Samsung, and other makers of Android phones. 2013-11-1
A court in the German city of Mannheim rules that Microsoft has infringed Motorola Mobility's patents and bans Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system from sale in Germany. 2012-05-2
Mali appoints Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft chairman for Africa and a former NASA astrophysicist, as its interim prime minister after a coup d'état. 2012-04-17
Microsoft completes its acquisition of Internet phone company Skype for US$8.5 billion. 2011-10-14
Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble and manufacturers Foxconn and Inventec over their Nook e-readers, claiming that they infringe patents. 2011-03-21