Microsoft reported revenues of $23.38 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. Gross margin, operating income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were...

Microsoft is eliminating 18,000 jobs as part of a corporate restructuring. The job cuts, which will lead to a reduction of about 14 per...

Microsoft has acquired InMage, a company that provides disaster recovery solutions to companies, for an undisclosed sum. "This acquisition will accelerate our strategy to...

Microsoft has acquired SyntaxTree, developers of the UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio. UnityVS enables Unity developers to use Visual Studio to author, browse and debug the code for their Unity applications. The Redmond giant says it will make the existing UnityVS plugin available for free on its download site. The SyntaxTree team will be joining the Visual Studio division. The Unity cross-platform game engine is used by over two million developers.

Microsoft and Canon have inked a broad patent cross-licensing agreement, whereby the companies get access to each other's patent portfolios. The agreement covers a broad range of products and services, including digital imaging and mobile consumer products. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Since Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003, the company has entered into more than 1,100 licensing agreements.