Pete Boden wants people at Microsoft to think like criminals. That's why the company held its first "Blue Hat" meeting in 2005, which invited hackers onto the corporate campus for lectures and ...

Microsoft's recent announcement that Skype will be shutting down in May 2025 provides a perfect epilogue to a 14-year journey that began with an $8.5 billion acquisition. As an M&A leadership expert ...

Microsoft this week acknowledged that its Kin mobile devices were dead on arrival and halted further development. Kin ended up being an expensive experiment for Microsoft, but although the devices ...

Recently we received a news release about a new book called Stack Rank This! Memoirs of a Microsoft Couple. Apart from the subject, what caught my attention was the fact that the book was published ...

Microsoft is rolling out Reading Coach as a standalone app, which will expand its tools for educators in Microsoft Teams. The new app will be part of its Reading Progress suite designed to help ...

Tom Orrison, Microsoft's director of legal operations, shared what he's learned from his team's successes and challenges working with alternative legal service providers. Tom Orrison, director of ...

Although Microsoft is now the incredibly large corporation we all know, businesses of all sizes can relate to its long journey to success. Microsoft wanted to revolutionize how we interact with ...

There are plenty of internal reasons why Microsoft’s record of innovation is so lackluster. Not to mince words, Bill Gates’s researchers have placed a bunch of expensive bets on technologies that ...

Intelligent investors understand that in the short run, the market is a “voting machine” and as such likely to price stocks at ludicrous levels. Valuation is a function of properly discounting money ...

What the Microsoft case teaches us about antitrust and the power of Big Tech today. By Shira Ovide This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. My ...