Deep inside Microsoft's 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is what clearly looks like a disturbing disclosure: The company's $9.4-billion purchase of the Nokia handset business ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in ...

Microsoft is boosting its popular word processing software with a new AI feature: "Personalization" profiles in Microsoft Copilot. This tool aims to tailor the AI writing assistant's responses to ...

Microsoft may provide Office users a way to write text for projects, by incorporating AI technology from OpenAI into its apps. AI has become more prevalent in creative fields over time, with tools ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because it forces users to use the same weak term on many systems, according to a Microsoft security guru. Speaking on the opening ...

Microsoft will write off $6.2 billion in lost value, mostly related to its 2007 purchase of digital advertising network aQuantive for $6.3 billion, the company announced Monday. The charge to the ...

The company's Surface general manager reiterates that Microsoft is committed to Surface RT and Windows RT, in spite of today's write-down of the iPad competitor. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Yesterday, Microsoft (MSFT) wrote off its ill-fated 2007 acquisition of ad agency aQuantive, taking a $6.2 billion non-cash charge. Response from the market? Nothing. Microsoft's stock didn't budge an ...

Nowadays, cellphones are all about apps. And Microsoft is so determined to have lots of brand-name apps for its Windows Phone app store that it's willing to pay for them. All an app-maker has to do is ...