Microsoft founder Bill Gates cautions against the negative effects of reducing aid budgets during times of economic austerity.

Three hundred Chinese factory workers who manufacture Microsoft Xbox 360s threatened mass suicide last week, according to unconfirmed reports. The Foxconn employees threatened to throw themselves off of a factory roof due to a payment dispute, according to Record China and Want China Times. According to these reports, the incident began when employees asked for raises on Jan. 2 and ...

The IT sector is under sustained pressure to meet the increasing demand whilst at the same time asked to reduce its carbon footprint, says John Vassallo of Microsoft. How is this conundrum playing out in the EU? And do cloud-based networks and services hold the key to wider EU environmental goals? More »

Here is an interesting article over at the Wall Street Journal about how Microsoft's Paul Allen is faring with his own space venture. Rand Simberg weighs in. All this private sector space stuff reminds me of this marvellously entertaining book by Victor Koman, although I agreed with an old American friend of mine that the book jacket design was a bit poor. I hope Dale Amon doesn't mind m...

The European commissioner for research and innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has publicly sought the support and advice of Internet rivals Microsoft and Google in her quest to carry through the EU executive’s ambitious €80-billion Horizon 2020 research programme. More »

Turnround in strained relations with European regulators as software giant is set to gain Brussels' blessing for its $8.5bn acquisition

The European Commission is determining whether to require the unbundling of the Internet phone service Skype from Microsoft's Windows operating system before authorising the planned merger of the two companies. More »

Britain has yet to produce the equivalent of a Microsoft, Apple or Google, but if we are embarking on a second industrial revolution at least one Briton would qualify as the man who launched it – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet. He launched the web, not the internet.

GCHQ is losing "whizz kid" specialists to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon because they can triple their pay, the head of the agency has warned.

In a speech tomorrow hosted by the think tank Demos at Microsoft’s Headquarters in London, Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, will say that the Government is in danger of preparing young people for a world that no longer exists.