Nancy Gohring

A Texas judge has given Microsoft 60 days to stop selling custom-XML-capable versions of word, but the injunction is unlike to actually stop sales

Microsoft tells users their cloud-based apps will have to migrate from its Quincy, Wash., data centre because of changes to state tax laws

Time Warner buys Google's 5 per cent share of the online company and says it plans to spin off the ailing AOL by end of this year

Failing to gain currency among users, Microsoft's financial management software Money will be cut from circulation by the end of this month

The world's biggest software company may have let go of as many as 3,000 people this week, and more personnel reductions may still be on the agenda, according to CEO Steve Ballmer

New speech recognition application will enable Windows Mobile users to search, send texts and place calls using voice commands

Microsoft researchers working on new search technologies will be able to quickly and easily load their developments on the experimental search site Viveri and anyone in the public can try them out

If Microsoft takes the open source path with mobile software and service firm Danger, it does so with a safety net of sorts. Bloggers say that Microsoft is also considering an OS that won't force the software maker to open up its own contributions to other developers