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BusinessPremiumMicrosoft reveals new AI PCs as it battles Apple, Google

Microsoft has introduced new software and computers infused with artificial intelligence features — stepping up its efforts to out-compete Alphabet’s Google and Apple in the dawning AI age. 

Dina Bass and Matt Day

Next big thingVideoPremiumMicrosoft, Alphabet chart different paths on AI disruption

Rivals Microsoft and Google both see artificial intelligence as the key to controlling the lucrative search engine market

Julia Love, Dina Bass and Davey Alba

Big potentialCommentsMicrosoft’s shares rise as forecast focuses on cloud growth

Microsoft shares rose in late trading after the software giant gave a forecast that reassured investors the company’s Azure cloud-computing business still has potential to drive growth.

Dina Bass

Losing steamCommentsPremiumMicrosoft’s slowing cloud growth casts shadow over report

Microsoft shares fell in late trading after the software giant reported decelerating demand for Azure corporate cloud-computing services, sparking concern about the company’s growth.

Dina Bass

Under scrutinyCommentsPremiumMicrosoft hires law firm to review Gates probe

Microsoft, responding to a push from shareholders, has hired a law firm to review its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and scrutinise a 2019 board investigation of co-founder Bill Gates.

Dina Bass

Cloud computingCommentsPremiumMicrosoft revenue climbs to $US45.3b

Microsoft’s cloud-based software helped drive robust sales and profit growth, which topped analysts’ estimates for an 11th straight quarter.

Email trailMicrosoft warned Bill Gates about flirting in 2008

Microsoft executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop, the company has revealed.

Expansion on horizonPremiumVelrada eyes float option

Fresh off the back of running logistics for the G7 summit in the UK last month, the Perth-based company is considering how best to raise $15 million to $20 million to launch a US business.

Danielle Le Messurier

Azure jittersPremiumMicrosoft tops estimates with $62.7b final quarter

Microsoft has reported sales and profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates for a 10th-straight quarter, sending shares higher.

Dina Bass

Next generationMicrosoft releases Windows 11

Microsoft has revealed a new-look Windows operating system which has the Start button and menu moved to the centre of the screen.

Matt O'Brien

Elite companyPremiumMicrosoft joins Apple in exclusive $US2 trillion club

Microsoft took its place in the history books as just the second US public company to reach a $US2 trillion market value, buoyed by its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software.

Ryan Vlastelica and Dina Bass

Shares transferredPremiumMicrosoft board had Gates probed for relationship

Microsoft’s directors started a probe into Bill Gates’s alleged involvement with a female employee that was deemed inappropriate, it has been reported.

Linus Chua

Separate waysBill Gates and wife Melinda announce divorce

Billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are ending their marriage, saying they can "no longer grow together as a couple" after 27 years.

Sally Ho

New worldPremiumGoogle booming with travel and retail ads

Google’s results, showing a surge in ad sales related to travel and retail, have offered a glimpse of online spending in a post-pandemic world.

Nico Grant

Under attackPremiumHackers breach thousands of Microsoft customers

A sophisticated attack on Microsoft’s widely used business email software is morphing into a global cybersecurity crisis.

William Turton and Jordan Robertson

Bing it on!CommentsPremiumMicrosoft says Bing can fill void if Google departs Aus

Microsoft says it supports new laws which will force tech giants to pay media companies and is investing to improve its search engine following threats from Google to exit the Australian market.

Annabel Hennessy

WFH boostPremiumMicrosoft keeps chugging as pandemic continues

Microsoft’s business continued chugging ahead in 2020, powered by ongoing demand for its workplace software and cloud computing services as people worked from home.

Stunning breachSerious Microsoft hacking worse than first suspected

Microsoft Corp. said the suspected Russian hackers behind the stunning breach of numerous US Government agencies also accessed the company’s internal source code

Exposed by NSAThe big Windows security flaw uncovered by US spooks

But rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the National Security Agency tipped off Microsoft so that it can fix the system.

InfluentialMicrosoft co-founder dies after cancer battle

Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, has died at the age of 65.

Reuters

World firstComing soon: super-speed 5G 130 times faster than 4G

Download your favourite shows faster than you can say ‘Winter is coming’.

Daniel Newell

Artificial IntelligencePremiumCan Microsoft stop our batting collapses?

COULD better computers be the answer to the Australian Cricket team’s woes? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks so.

Rod Chester

Artificial IntelligencePremiumCan Microsoft stop our batting collapses?

COULD better computers be the answer to the Australian Cricket team’s woes? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks so.

Rod Chester National technology writer