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Software giant files documents opposing claims that transaction would harm competition in videogame industry

President Brad Smith has taken an amicable role with regulators. Rivals say he also directs negative attention toward them. Microsoft’s Activision deal, under FTC review, will test the strategy.

Microsoft has made its largest ever deal buying Activision Blizzard for almost $100 billion and following months of scandal.

Microsoft is shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state has become increasingly challenging.

Android apps on Windows!

Microsoft is spending $16 billion to kick-start growth in the next big thing for tech: healthcare

It launches September 10th for $1,399.

A possible sale of Chinese-owned TikTok's US operations to Microsoft is reportedly on hold after Donald Trump vowed to ban the video-sharing app.

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.

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

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.

With the new Outlook integration, customers can click on an email contact's name right in their inbox then view a rich contact card that includes a link to their LinkedIn profile.

LINKEDIN is supposed to be the more “professional” of the social networking sites. The way it treats its users is anything but.

It's a bit more complicated than that, of course.

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