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Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc tumbled 22.5 percent after it rejected a $7 billion buyout bid from IBM, leaving the smaller server and software maker vulnerable to lawsuits from shareholders nervous about its viability as a stand-alone

Microsoft has released a second commercial in their new Laptop Hunters ad campaign targeting Mac prices, a follow-up to last weeks one which starred Lauren.

Microsoft's Virtual Earth has released the Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control community technology preview (CTP) which supports video, animation, and vector graphics.

Microsoft Corp expects several phones on the U.S. market to be powered by its Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system after it launches in the fall of 2009, according to a company executive.

Microsoft Corporation formally released a new server product from its Windows 2008 family with the addition of Windows Server 2008 Foundation, targeting the small business/SOHO segment of 15 users or less.

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday launched a new range of server systems for small companies, scaling down its existing offerings to attack one of the fastest-growing segments of the business computing market.

IBM will sell a suite of Web-based collaboration software for businesses, including contact management, instant messaging and file sharing programs, the computing giant's biggest effort to date to sell software as a service.

Microsoft shares were raise to Buy from Neutral, as shares rose about 6 percent to $18.37 in the afternoon trading

Microsoft Corp has signed up multiple software partners for its upcoming cellphone software marketplace, including Web music service Pandora, game publisher Electronic Arts Inc and social site Facebook.

U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi roared into space aboard a Russian rocket on Thursday, making history as the first tourist to make the epic journey twice.

Sales of Microsoft's Xbox 260s in the U.S. in February was up 53 percent from the same month last year, giving the company its biggest non-holiday sales month sales apart from September 2007 when Halo 3 was launched, according NPD Group research firm.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appeared to have added more fire to the an already flaming rivalry between the difference of Mac and a PC.

Dutch navigation device maker TomTom said on Friday it had launched a court case against Microsoft Corp a few weeks after the American software giant launched a patent lawsuit against it in the United States.

AMSTERDAM, March 20 - Dutch navigation device maker TomTom NV launched a court case against Microsoft Corp but declined on Friday to divulge any details on the matter.

Microsoft Corp. has released its latest edition of its Internet Explorer Web browser touting its new security features on Thursday, after almost a year of public beta testing.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the only discussion he's had with Yahoo Inc's top executive was a single phone call, but is holding out hopes for further talks.

Microsoft Corp is set to publicly launch Internet Explorer 8 early on Thursday, the latest version of its market-dominating Web browser.

Microsoft Corp is set to publicly launch Internet Explorer 8 early on Thursday, the latest version of its market-dominating web browser.

Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc forecast a decline in quarterly profit in line with Wall Street projections as it blamed the weak economy for a projected revenue drop.

Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc forecast a decline in quarterly profit that was in line with Wall Street projections, sending its shares up 2 percent.

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced new operational details of the Windows Marketplace for users of mobile devices where developers build and sell applications.