Gates owns about 4.5 per cent of the $277 billion company and is its largest individual shareholder.
It's the first new gaming console in eight years.
Microsoft Corp is considering Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg as a possible successor to outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
A source close to the company said no appointment was likely until the last week of January or in February.
Buying Nokia's gadget business thrusts Microsoft deeper into the hotly contested market
Microsoft Corp is betting a mix of old and young blood will revive the aging technology pioneer, but new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may find it tough to push change with co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer breathing down his neck.
Both are facing growing pressure from new rivals selling cheaper services.
"The chance to play so much cricket surprised me," said Prabhu, a senior program manager at Microsoft Corp.'s automotive business. "There is someone in almost every business team at Microsoft that I've played cricket with."
Microsoft Corp, which plans to invest $400 million in India, is considering sharing the closely guarded source code of its Windows platform with its Indian clients, a company official said on Monday.
He will look at early stage software, Internet, and tech companies.
Hopes to win over tablet users and placate PC customers alienated by the new operating system.
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer took his farewell bow before thousands of applauding employees on Thursday with a typically loud and emotional performance at his last companywide meeting, talking up the software giant's prospects and taking swipes at rivals.
Microsoft Corp launched on Tuesday its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 6.0, in India, saying it contained more powerful customisation and collaboration features to make internet communication more personalised.\n\n\n\n
If Nadella wins the day, as expected, it will be for his innovative work on Microsoft's growing server and tools business, which provides online computing and storage for companies, said a source briefed on the search process.
His appointment has helped spur Microsoft shares to $40-plus levels.
Italy team named software design champions; torch passes to Korea for Imagine Cup 2007.
A boy from Rajkot has become the youngest student to equal the world record of obtaining full 1,000 marks in an online computer exam conducted by United States-based multinational Microsoft Corp.
Xiaomi will start pre-loading Microsoft Office and Skype on its phones starting September 2016, initially in China, with other markets including India to follow.
Microsoft on Friday (local time) announced that its co-founder Bill Gates has stepped down from the company's board of directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health and education. Gates will, however, continue to serve as the technology advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft Corp said on Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months, once it has selected a successor, sending its shares up almost 9 per cent.
Nadella's journey, from being a Hyderabad boy to possibly helming one of the world's biggest technology companies is what dreams are made of.
In the latest deal in the rapidly-expanding online music business, MusicNet said on Thursday it will offer more than 350,000 songs to subscribers in Microsoft Corp's Windows Media format.
Microsoft Corp, the world's biggest software maker, may move some customer-service jobs to India, according to a Bloomberg report from Sanfransico.
The 6,600-km submarine cable system would be operated and managed by Telxius.
Fair trade watchdog CCI has approved Microsoft's proposed $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile devices business, citing that the deal would not have adverse impact on competition in the Indian market.
Microsoft has had a rough track record in making big acquisitions pay off.
Finland's Nokia, once the undisputed leader in mobile phones, has been struggling to respond to the challenge from smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.
The combination will enable enterprises to move to a 100 per cent virtualised environment with management, orchestration and hypervisor integration, Infosys said.
Microsoft also took a charge of $940 million related to job cuts announced this month and last year.
Nadella's visit comes at a time when the Indian government is taking a strong position on issues like data localisation and tightening the rules for e-commerce companies as well as social media platforms.
Gates has sold 20 mn shares each quarter under a pre-set trading plan
The launch date for Windows 10 has not been announced yet.
Qi Lu would join as president of online services group to lead its search and online advertising and all its online communications services, Microsoft Corp said. He would report to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, the statement added.
Microsoft, responding to the rights group's allegations, said a system fault had removed some search results for users outside China.
Windows 10, which comes almost three years after the launch of the company's last operating system, will be available in 190 countries.
Microsoft Corp announced its 'Windows 10' operating system on Tuesday to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.
Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but sceptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
The vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
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