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The UK Competition and Markets Authority provisionally concludes that the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft will likely lead to a substantial loss of competition in the console market and could strengthen Microsoft's position in cloud gaming.
2023-02-8

Microsoft announces that it will discontinue support for Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022.
2021-05-20

Microsoft announces a $1.5 billion investment in Italy, as part of its expansion of cloud computing services around the world.
2020-05-8

Business leaders from various U.S. companies, including Facebook, Marriott International, JPMorgan Chase, and Microsoft, lobby to members of Congress to work on a permanent solution for DREAMers to stay legally in the country, many of whom are their employees.
2017-09-6

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

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

The European Commission fines Microsoft €561 million for failing to provide residents of the European Union with a selection of web browsers as an alternative to Internet Explorer.
2013-03-6

Internet analytics company ComScore says Google's Gmail has edged out Microsoft's Hotmail as the world's top e-mail service.
2012-11-1

Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, promises that Windows 8 will be on the market in 2012.
2011-05-23

Microsoft launches two new mobile phones marketed to young people. The phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, are built around their social networking features.
2010-04-12