Microsoft on Wednesday debuted a new version of its customizable operating system for embedded applications -- but perhaps a little surprisingly, it's not based on Windows Vista. Instead, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, as it's called,

In what Microsoft chairman Bill Gates described as his last keynote before he stops working full-time at the company he co-founded, the enigmatic tech visionary showed developers attending the company's 16th Tech-Ed conference Tuesday that he still has

Microsoft surprised the search world two weeks ago by saying it would pay advertisers and consumers for using its search engine. Now, it's doing something a little more traditional -- bundling its search engine with new consumer PCs.

Microsoft's chief software architect dislikes the limelight but his role is crucial to shaping and coordinating the company's far flung product and services plans. That's why it seemed a little odd for Ray Ozzie, who took over the job from the

"Surface-like" multi-touch capability is coming in the next major release of Windows, currently codenamed Windows 7. During the The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference yesterday, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer appeared for an onstage

With less than two years to go before it ships, Microsoft has started revealing new details about the next major release of Windows – or at least revealing what will not be new. In a posting Tuesday on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Chris Flores,

Six months after shipping the first beta of its Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008, Microsoft on Saturday said it is shipping Beta 2, adding several new features and continuing its push for better position in the supercomputing

Earlier in the day, Microsoft announced that it was pursuing some form of alliance with Yahoo as a way to expand its online advertising revenue, but it hinted that it a buyout could still be in the cards, "depending on future developments