Microsoft Redesigns MSN Home Page

Microsoft is once again considering an attempt to acquire beleaguered internet giant Yahoo, more than two years after it tried unsuccessfully to buy the company for $45 billion in cash and stock. Yahoo's market capitalisation is...

Microsoft's answer to free online streaming music service, Spotify, is set to face an undetermined delay for unknown reasons. The Telegraph, which originally broke the story, quotes a Microsoft spokesperson saying that ...

It might not seem like it but Microsoft could well be looking to challenge Apple on its preferred turf, digital music downloads, as it launches a new music download feature across its MSN mobile portal as a rival to iTunes and...

Startup Zattoo is not alone in trying to get UK TV channels online; Microsoft has announced that it will partner with EMI and Channel 4 to bring in quality content including music videos and short clips of its popular TV shows...

Seattle PI published the full set of emails complete with a 17-pages PDF document, thanks to a court order that allowed the website to missives to be published. The email exchanges, Seattle says, show how convoluted the...

To help small businesses effectively market themselves and sell online, Microsoft Office Live Small Business launched new features and enhancements to its Web service. New features include Store Manager, an e-commerce tool to...

CNN are both reporting that Microsoft's bad habits are quickly catching up. While the rest of the world is embracing the concept of openness and data portability, Microsoft has chosen to go against the flow. The software giant is...

Nielsen Online reports that Google has seen its US search market share fall from 57.7 percent to 56.3 percent in December while Microsoft gained nearly 2 percent, rising to 13.8 percent from 12 percent. Number two Yahoo was the...

Several millions of MSN Premium subscribers are paying almost USD 120 for services that Microsoft is giving for free elsewhere.Scott Dunn from Windowssecrets found out that up to 8.2 million people are using MSN Premium which...

Compete, an online metrics company, has published data that points to a reinvigorated Microsoft in the online video market. Although Youtube, now owned by Google, is still the largest online video website overall, Microsoft is...

Observers have been asking whether Microsoft latest move to acquire Musiwave is a direct aim at Apple's tightened grip on the online music market.Microsoft intention to take control of a provider of mobile music entertainment...

Microsoft has announced that they are going to double their online storage service capacity to 1GB. Windows Live Skydrive is also going to get RSS feeds to inform whoever is subscribed that new files have been uploaded as well as...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other websites that are illegally reproducing the material.The company, Perfect 10,...

According to a recent survey* commissioned by Microsoft Corp.'s MSNGames, Americans are feeling more stressed out and starved for time than ever, with 56 percent of men (age 18 to 34) and 71 percent of women (age 18 to 34)...

Microsoft Casual Games today unveiled plans to share a percentage of in-game advertising revenue from MSN Games with its casual game developers. Starting today, developers of Web-based titles hosted on MSN Games, one of the...