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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

Microsoft launches Windows 11, its latest version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The upgrade to Windows 11 will be free for Windows 10 users.
2021-10-5

Microsoft announces Windows 11, its next-generation operating system, replacing Windows 10. Windows 11 will be a free upgrade from Windows 10 with users being able to download Windows 11 through a Windows Update sometime later this year.
2021-06-24

American retailer Walmart announces its partnership with Microsoft for a bid to acquire the Chinese-based video sharing service TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States through President Donald Trump's executive order if its parent company ByteDance fails to sell the app's operations to an American corporation.
2020-08-27

The world's largest annual video game industry event E3 2020 is officially cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus. The highly anticipated event was scheduled to take place on June 9, ahead of major console launches for Microsoft and Sony.
2020-03-11

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 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

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