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Analysts have high hopes for Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) FY2015 Q1 results. "I think Microsoft will have a good report," Sean Udall, CIO of Quantum Trading Strategies and author of The TechStrat Report, told Benzinga. "The software sales are doing well [and] the...

New Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) retail outlets are cropping up all over the place. The Windows maker will open several new locations next month, including a store in Dallas, Texas on November 8 and another in Bethesda, Maryland on November 22. The expansion will continue in 2015 when...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Verge, may be ready to beta test a new version of Office, this one for Android tablets. Sources told The Verge that Microsoft was preparing a private beta test for the Office for Android tablet version and that the company was accepting participants...

It’s been widely reported that one of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) main goals with its next major version of Windows, known as Threshold, was to bring on board all those Windows 7 holdouts who have been vocal critics of the Windows 8 OS. To that end, ZDNet reported Monday that ‘...

Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Executive Vice President of the operating system group, Terry Myerson said Wednesday that the company would be bringing back a Start menu and windowed Metro-Style/Modern apps to a future update to Windows 8.1, according to ZDNet. The announcement came during Myerson...

It’s called Office 365 Personal and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said Sunday the new cloud-based version of its popular productivity software would work just like the conventional program and include Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Office 365 Personal will sell for $69.99 a year or $6.99 a...

Businesses are all about saving money. Now Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) have come up with a way enterprises can save lots of money via Google’s inexpensive Chromebook. Chromebook users, thanks to VMware, will be able to access Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows applications via...

This may have been a shorter work week for some, but that didn't stop the tech industry from pumping out some notable headlines. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) took the lead this week, but not for the most positive reason. Gmail, its hugely popular e-mail service, went down for the first time in 2014. The...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is up more than three percent in after hours trading after the company reported its second quarter results. The Windows maker reported a Q2 EPS of $0.78 versus the Street estimate of $0.68. Earnings per share were up three percent from the year-ago period. Revenue came...

In a move that is sure to surprise investors and consumers alike, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is reportedly working on its first Android smartphone. Even more surprising is the fact that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may not stop the project after it finalizes its acquisition of Nokia's handset business early...

There’s big news coming out of the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) rumor mill this week—at least by Microsoft standards. It seems that the next round of large-scale updates for Windows 8 will include the start menu—the real one this time. Let’s recap the life of that beloved friend for a minute....

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new consoles will continue to be in high demand, but their dominance could be challenged in a few years. According to DigiTimes, the upstream supply chain expects to see "strong orders" for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 components during the first...

According to market research firm, IDC, by the end of 2013, worldwide PC sales will have fallen more than 10 percent over a year ago. IDC said it would turn out to be the worst year on record for PC sales. Total sales this year, IDC said, would be about 314 million PCs, with most of those in...

Activist investor, Carl Icahn, isn’t the only one giving unsolicited advice to a large corporation. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder, Paul Allen, said he thinks the company should consider spinning off its consumer businesses including search advertising and the Xbox games console division...