Through patent licensing deals and lawsuits, Microsoft is aiming for a situation where it wins whether a customer chooses a Windows phone or an Android one. Its latest move is to sue Motorola for alleged patent infringements related to Android phones.

Microsoft has definite plans to add Office Web Apps to its hosted Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), but the company isn’t providing a specific timetable for the integration.

Last month, a few hundred Microsoft Corp employees acted out their fantasy with a mock funeral for Apple Inc’s iPhone at its Redmond, Washington campus.

Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials 2011, is ready for prime time. Microsoft announced Thursday it’s consumer focused suite of free applications, has moved from testing mode (beta) to the final release. The productivity suite is Microsoft’s flagship bundle of Web-based productivity apps for managing and sharing images online, editing video, and sharing documents and files between [...]

Microsoft is tackling the growing issue of Hotmail account hijacking. Microsoft has introduced new security controls designed to help users better protect Hotmail passwords and recover compromised accounts more easily.

Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS10-070 out-of-band today–a couple weeks ahead of the regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday for October. The update resolves a zero-day issue with ASP.NET that could allow an attacker to compromise information on all supported versions of Windows.

Microsoft Corp. is giving up on its own blog network and, in a new partnership, will start sending new Windows Live users to a competing platform instead.

Microsoft’s settlement of its antitrust issues with the EC was broadly welcomed Wednesday.