Corporate restructuring sees new focus on devices and services, and the promise of a single Windows ecosystem

Mattrick will become new CEO as founder Mark Pincus steps down

There have long been promises for Microsoft to become a "devices and services company", but just how this will look remains unclear

It’s many miles from being a serious rival to the more serious players in the tablet space

Updated version of operating system will take into account complaints made by users as decision to overhaul the much-maligned operating system has put Bill Gates’s successor under pressure

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Prime Minister David Cameron today welcomed an initiative by computing giants Microsoft to help 300,000 jobless young people in the UK take steps towards work over the next three years.

Microsoft's fared better than analysts anticipated in its latest quarter, boosted by a surprising rise in sales of its Windows operating system for personal computers.

Skype, the internet telephony company, has sacked more than half a dozen of its most senior executives, in a boardroom clear-out ahead of its takeover by Microsoft.

Microsoft and Toyota have agreed to join forces to develop internet-based services for the car manufacturer's customers around the world.

Bill Gates is a ruthless schemer who demeaned his employees and conspired to rip off his business partner, according to a memoir written by the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.