Microsoft

The machine is expected to be the most advanced supercomputer in the world dedicated to weather and climate (Victoria Jones/PA)

Met Office and Microsoft to build world-leading computer to forecast weather

April 22, 2021

A Microsoft office in New York (Swayne B Hall/AP)

Microsoft buying speech recognition company Nuance in deal worth £11.6bn

April 12, 2021

Soldiers were a military prototype of the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System during a training environment and test event. Microsoft has sealed a major contract to supply US Army combat troops with its virtual reality headsets (Courtney Bacon/US Army/AP)

Microsoft wins major deal making headsets for US Army

April 1, 2021

The ‘whack-a-mole’ approach to protecting people from online fraud is not working, Which? has warned (Joe Giddens/PA)

‘Whack-a-mole’ approach to stopping online scams is not working, says Which?

March 23, 2021

Microsoft’s offices in Dublin (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft Teams suffers worldwide outage

March 15, 2021

Facebook removed news content from its platform in Australia last week (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft calls for Australia-style action forcing tech giants to pay for news

February 22, 2021

‘People’s interest in what he says may go down quite a bit,’ Microsoft co-founder says (Dave Thompson/PA)

Bill Gates: Donald Trump should probably be allowed back on social media

February 18, 2021

The device marks the tech giant’s return to the smartphone sector (Microsoft/PA)

Microsoft’s Surface Duo foldable phone to go on sale in UK from next week

February 11, 2021

Sony launched the PS5 in November (Sony/PA)

Sony matches PS4 launch numbers with 4.5 million PS5 consoles sold in 2020

February 3, 2021

Microsoft says it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news (Rick Rycroft/AP)

Microsoft backs Australian plan to make Google pay for news

February 3, 2021

The company beat Wall Street expectations (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft posts 15.5bn dollar second-quarter profit

January 26, 2021

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Schools & Family

Online learning ‘unsustainable’ for rural families as Microsoft issues could take weeks to fix

January 12, 2021

Device marks the tech giant’s return to smartphone sector (Microsoft/PA)

Microsoft’s Surface Duo foldable phone to launch in the UK in early 2021

December 15, 2020

The Xbox Series S (Xbox)

Xbox confirms Series S compact next-gen console

September 8, 2020

A sign outside Microsoft’s offices at South County Business Park in Leopardstown, South Dublin (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft backs Epic Games in payments row with Apple

August 24, 2020

The phone is Microsoft’s first since 2016 (Microsoft/PA)

Microsoft’s Surface Duo foldable phone will launch in the US in September

August 12, 2020

Xbox Series X (Xbox/PA)

Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X to launch in November

August 12, 2020

The video-sharing app is already the subject of takeover discussions with Microsoft (Peter Byrne/PA)

Twitter ‘interested in TikTok buyout’

August 10, 2020

Surface Go 2 (Jamie Harris/PA)

Should you buy… the Surface Go 2?

July 4, 2020

Xbox One (Yui Mok/PA)

Microsoft: Record numbers using Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live and Mixer

March 30, 2020