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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority approves Microsoft's takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard.
2023-10-13

Microsoft ends support for Windows 8.1 and security updates for Windows 7.
2023-01-10

Microsoft confirms it has discovered malicious software in its operating systems related to a mass data breach targeting the federal government of the United States.
2020-12-17

Linux kernel developers, Apple, Google and Microsoft release emergency patches for their products to mitigate ZombieLoad.
2019-05-14

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 U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information.
2014-01-27

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces that he will retire within the next 12 months.
2013-08-23

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

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