This week, on April 4th, Microsoft turns 50 years old. The company has gone through sweeping changes over that time — from ...

Microsoft was resting on its laurels, sitting out the search revolution and fumbling the smartphone. Enter Satya Nadella, the ...

Microsoft Office, the company's suite of software products containing Word, PowerPoint and Excel, was launched in 1989 and hit shelves a year later. It became the go-to home computer software ...

Created in 1975 by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft today is one of the five Big Tech titans.

Friends since childhood in Seattle, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 with a stated goal of putting a computer in ...