Microsoft Teams now has 44 million daily active users

Microsoft announced this week that Windows 10 has hit a significant milestone. The flagship operating system is now in use on 1 billion - with a "B" - active devices each month.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.

Microsoft said Thursday that its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, set to run from May 19-21, will be held online instead of in person, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email. The change was made as the coronavirus continues to spread around the U.S.

Though the free access is for a limited time

The Vatican joined forces with tech giants Microsoft and IBM on Friday to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition.

Microsoft's revenue guidance for the More Personal Computing unit had already been wider than usual to account for impact from the health situation in China, where the coronavirus had first been identified.

And there's a new feature called Smart Delivery

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella touted the new India cloud partnership with Reliance Industries as he shared center-stage with its chairman Mukesh Ambani at an event in India's financial capital on Monday.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon.

Microsoft no longer sees PlayStation-maker Sony and Nintendo as the biggest competition for its Xbox platform.

The EU's proposal for a temporary ban on facial-recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft President Brad Smith.

Microsoft said on Monday it has taken control of web domains which were used by a hacking group called "Thallium" to steal information.

Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, in a potential blow to the likes of HP, Dell and Microsoft.

In a new filing made public on Monday, Amazon Web Services claims it didn't win the JEDI contract, which could be worth as much as $10 billion, as a result of repeated public and private attacks from President Donald Trump against Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.

Microsoft is pushing back the launch of its new Surface Earbuds, meaning it will miss the crucial 2019 holiday shopping season.

Apple looking for UWP developers, too

At the SC19 conference, AMD will announce new AWS and Microsoft Azure instances based on the Epyc processor, as well as other second-gen Epyc wins.

Microsoft said on Monday it was updating the privacy provisions of its commercial cloud contracts after European regulators found its deals with European Union institutions failed to protect data in line with EU law.

Innovative chip from Graphcore could push AI applications to greater heights.

The deal could be worth up to $10 billion.

More than any other industry, technology companies prioritize ethical issues important to most Americans, according to a study released Tuesday from Forbes and the non-profit research group Just Capital.

The Microsoft co-founder said he doesn't wish a government push for a corporate breakup on anyone.

Microsoft looks to be making Windows 10X available not just on dual-screen and foldable devices, but on clamshell laptops, as well, according to newly leaked documents.

Microsoft beat expectations on the top and bottom lines, but revenue guidance was lower than expected.

Mover can help move files from Box and Dropbox into Microsoft services like OneDrive and SharePoint.

Microsoft's independent board directors bumped Nadella's base salary for the most recent fiscal year.

The firms intend to bring cellular connectivity to Microsoft's Internet of Things solution.

Microsoft president Brad Smith thinks it's time antitrust laws are updated for the digital age.

The world of computer chips just got a wake-up call.

Microsoft does more research and development in China than it does anywhere else outside the United States. But, as US-China relations continue to sour on issues of trade and cyber-security, the decades-long ties Microsoft has in China are coming under close scrutiny.

Microsoft might be working on a virtual reality mat to, at least in part, keep you from getting clotheslined by your coffee table yet again while ostensibly blinded by a VR headset.

Windows ships with a full volume encryption tool called BitLocker.

900 million devices and counting

Microsoft's most powerful executive has said US President Donald Trump's treatment of China's telecoms giant Huawei is unfair and un-American.

An exclusive deal with SK Telecom in South Korea

New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments).

Microsoft is warning Windows 10 users to update their operating system immediately because of two "critical" vulnerabilities.

Project Scarlett is about how games play.

Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 has more Microsoft in it than any other Android phone