Yesterday marked the second round of layoffs at Microsoft, as some 3,000 employees found themselves among the ranks of the unemployed.  We’ve been trying to piece together some more detailed information about what was cut, and as usual Mini-Microsoft...

The Times Online reports today in an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that the door is still open to a search deal with Yahoo!: In an interview with The Times , Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, extended an olive branch to Carol...

Big news out of Redmond today as the company announced elimination of some 5,000 positions in the next 18 months, some 1,400 of which are expected to come today.  In addition, cuts are also coming to contractors, both in non-renewal of contracts...

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that the Live Mesh team, which started out as a special project under Ray Ozzie and known at first as Windows Live Core , has joined the Windows / Windows Live org, under Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky.  Mary Jo...

Microsoft’s first Data Center that makes use of shipping containers as a primary server-packaging unit, has moved into the testing phase. The facility in Chicago is the first purpose-built Data Center to accommodate containers on such a large scale. When...

Microsoft and the state of Iowa have announced the location of the newest Microsoft data center, in West Des Moines, Iowa . Located “southwest of the intersection of Booneville Road and South 88 th Street (also known as Xavier Place)” (see...

This morning at the Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM), being held on Microsoft’s campus, Satya Nadella announced an extension of Microsoft’s U.S. relationship with Facebook to encompass search.  An email from Waggener Edstrom clarifies: As part of...

In an unexpected move Microsoft today announced that the Platforms & Services Devision (PSD) will be split into two groups: Windows/Windows Live and Online Services. While the PSD President Kevin Johnson will work to ensure a smooth transition he...

So there’s a bunch of financial results out today, including Microsoft , Google and IBM , all of whom posted strong profit growths in the last quarter (what impending recession?) Anyway I’ve broken down the results for the Online Services Business below...

Today saw another Microsoft ad campaign being won by the agencies , this time for the Business Solutions unit, with $200m being the amount touted for winning the enterprise advertising. This is in addition to the $300m for the consumer campaign going...

Like the soap opera it has become, the workings behind a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! just don’t ever seem to end. This week we’ve seen a Yahoo! PowerPoint presentation that tries to place all the blame on the failed deal on Microsoft, Microsoft...

After much ho-humming around whether Microsoft would or would-not acquire Powerset , the deal is now done and announced over on the Live Search blog . Though the price has not been announced, ReadWriteWeb were running with a rumour a few days back saying...

Today Microsoft has launched an updated version of the Windows Mobile homepage over on Microsoft.com, powered by Silverlight. While not big news in itself, this launch is part of Microsoft’s new project to better promote its consumer offerings, which...

Microsoft has just announced that it plans to acquire MobiComp.  MobiComp is, according to the press release : …a company that helped pioneer technologies allowing the backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to...

Last year Microsoft announced that the existing VOIP partnership with Verizon would be terminating in 2008 . Currently this service allows Windows Live Messenger users to call friends and family using regular landlines and mobile phones, but this functionality...