"Surface-like" multi-touch capability is coming in the next major release of Windows, currently codenamed Windows 7. During the The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference yesterday, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer appeared for an onstage

With less than two years to go before it ships, Microsoft has started revealing new details about the next major release of Windows – or at least revealing what will not be new. In a posting Tuesday on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Chris Flores,

Six months after shipping the first beta of its Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008, Microsoft on Saturday said it is shipping Beta 2, adding several new features and continuing its push for better position in the supercomputing

Earlier in the day, Microsoft announced that it was pursuing some form of alliance with Yahoo as a way to expand its online advertising revenue, but it hinted that it a buyout could still be in the cards, "depending on future developments

Bill Gates may be about to retire from the day to day activities of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , the company he co-founded 33 years ago, but he's still a card carrying tech visionary and since he's still the chairman of the board and

You wouldn't have known that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is retiring in six weeks as the legendary tech executive and pioneer continues expounding on his vision of the future in keynotes around the world. Gates, who is slated to retire from full-time

Microsoft announced today that it is shipping a preview version of one of its upcoming server bundles for small- and medium-sized businesses and also disclosed pricing for the products, which includes a sizable increase for the small business package.

Microsoft finally released Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to the general public, earlier this week, after a minor glitch or two the week before. It is an update that many XP users have been waiting impatiently for, for months. Despite the fact that