Software giant, Microsoft has made yet another layoff of about 800 employees belonging to different locations and businesses this Wednesday. This layoff completes the initially projected 5000 job cuts announced earlier in January.

Aiming to enable access to mobile apps for handsets with limited processing power and memory, especially the "feature phones" and prepaid systems in the emerging markets, Microsoft Monday launched its OneApp platform.

The recent Microsoft announcement pertaining to pricing of Windows 7 may actually prove to be a hindrance in the company's endeavors both of moving users off the not-so-new Windows XP as well as wiping away their memories of a terrible Windows Vista experience!

At the Monday news conference that marked the beginning of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo - E3 - in Los Angeles, software biggie Microsoft Monday unveiled its "no-controller" technology for its popular Xbox 360 video game console.

Engadget has managed to uncover what it called a "draft" artist's conception of the purportedly forthcoming Microsoft Zune portable media player (PMP), a device which the leaked artwork labels as Zune HD.

According to reports, stating a Microsoft spokesman, a new edition of the company's internal online search service is presently in its testing stage. The service, called Kumo. com, is a part of Microsoft's endeavor to pull alongside Internet search bigwigs Google and Yahoo!

A day after its December 9 Patch release, Microsoft Corp said it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in the WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files and zero-day flaw affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp, which ranks a distant No.