Minecraft, the wildly popular game that allows players to create infinite online worlds, will soon be available in China.
The game, which Microsoft acquired with the $ 2.5 billion purchase of Mojang in 2014, will be adapted...
REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity to power its data centers will come...
One of the marquee features of Windows 10 was the...
Microsoft continues to invest in golf.
The Redmond-based tech giant will be the founding sponsor of the 2016 KPMG...
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Windows users woke up to something that doesn't happen every day: the disclosure of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in the Microsoft operating system and the other in Adobe's Flash Player.
The Windows bug is being actively exploited in the wild, making it imperative that users install fixes that Microsoft released today as part of...
Thanks to Stephen Curry’s heroics, Paul Allen turned into a viral meme late Monday evening.
Allen, the Portland Trail Blazers owner and Microsoft co-founder, was absolutely stunned — along with everybody else inside the Moda Center and millions of others watching on TV — after Curry went to another level on Monday, scoring a record 17 points in overtime as Golden State topped Portland 132-125 in...
Above: the new docs.microsoft.com appearance. Below: the same article in old TechNet. (credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft's developer documentation used to be the model that all others should follow. The documentation itself was thorough, combining reference material with usage guides and sample code. Its use of, at the time, novel JavaScript and XML techniques (known in those days...
Microsoft is no longer an investor in Bellevue-based healthcare startup Caradigm, selling off its stake this month to General Electric.
Caradigm was initially a 50-50 joint venture of Microsoft and GE, created out of their respective health care technology units in 2011.
But in a press release announcing...
Facebook is bringing its latest features to the social network’s Windows apps today, with updates to the main Facebook app as well as Messenger and Instagram.
While Facebook has apps for Windows 8, today’s update brings the...
Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data.
The data density of DNA is orders of magnitude higher than conventional storage systems, with 1 gram of DNA able to represent close to 1 billion terabytes (1 zettabyte) of data. DNA is also remarkably robust; DNA fragments thousands of years old...
