Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.

Microsoft doesn’t include a keyboard with the $999 Surface Pro X, considering it (and the Surface Slim Pen) optional.

Other, smaller cloud rivals like IBM and Oracle were kicked out earlier in the process, which has been contentious and delayed.

Bezos overtook Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in October 2017, in part because Gates has donated tens of billions to philanthropic causes.

He had to downgrade the importance of Microsoft's flagship products: Windows and Office. And he had to overhaul the company's culture to make it happen. 

The fate of Microsoft's mobile efforts still bothers the company's founder.

Windows Sandbox, a new light theme, and more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called Allen's contributions "indispensable."

Russian attempts to launch cyber-attacks against US conservative groups have been thwarted, Microsoft says.

• Analysts recognized that Microsoft is winning more high-value Azure deals and improving the cloud's gross margin.
• One analyst suggested the company's cloud transition is proving to be additive to its legacy products.

GitHub, founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, was created largely as a community for software developers to share programming tools and code.

The high-capacity system should be ready by October 2017.

The high-capacity system should be ready by October 2017.

Microsoft's graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed.

We'll walk you through who the Surface Pro, Surface Book, Surface Laptop and Surface Studio are for

With the Surface Pro 4, Microsoft saw Apple's MacBook Air as the chief competition and used to tout its device's superior specs. 

Microsoft's answer to the MacBook has been revealed in leaked pictures and it has one very bizarre feature

If the Surface Pro 4 is Microsoft's MacBook Air alternative and the Surface Studio is up against the iMac

Microsoft founder Bill Gates again tops Forbes' list of the world's richest people, in a year when the number of billionaires rose 13% to 2,043.

Microsoft will enable Windows 10 users to choose when security updates are installed once they arrive rather than enforcing them straightaway.