Microsoft today called comments made by an Intel executive about the next version of Windows “inaccurate” and “misleading.”

Microsoft next month will release a set of new components to its Azure AppFabric suite of middleware cloud services that should make it easier for administrators to create and manage cloud applications.

Americans are more enamored than ever with Microsoft’s software, according to a national customer satisfaction survey released today.

Microsoft on Monday kicked off its TechEd North America conference in Atlanta with a focus on the cloud and devices, including details on Office 2010 SP1 and updates for Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft offered some details about outages that have plagued its hosted e-mail customers in the Americas over the past week.

Microsoft was a giant fending off tiny rivals in 1998 when the U.S. Justice Department accused it of breaking antitrust law.

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype is the latest reminder of a simple dictum: As rapidly as technology is changing our world, nothing changes as quickly as technology itself.

Microsoft is buying Internet voice and video leader Skype for $8.5 billion dollars in a move aimed at boosting its presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook.