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Microsoft reports widespread outages across Outlook, Teams, and other 365 programs. The outages are later resolved during the evening.
2024-11-25

The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority blocks Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal will leave video gamers with less choice and will reduce innovation.
2023-04-26

Microsoft announces that it will cut 10,000 jobs, around 5% of its global workforce, amid a slowdown in consumer spending.
2023-01-18

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

Google and Samsung have asked an agency of the government of the People's Republic of China to impose limiting conditions on a proposed merger of Microsoft and Nokia.
2014-03-3

The software company Microsoft internally promotes Satya Nadella to be its next CEO and appoints John W. Thompson as its chairman.
2014-02-4

Microsoft purchases Nokia's mobile device division for $7.2 billion.
2013-09-3

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a 2009 jury verdict in a patent dispute at the expense of software giant Microsoft in favor of Canadian company i4i.
2011-06-9

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

A leaked memo shows Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop's belief that the company is too slow in its response to trend changes.
2011-02-9