It can be hard to keep a coherent story together when you're also trying to let a player explore an open world, or choose between branching storylines.

Microsoft and Intel's financial results this week brought into sharp relief the one-time PC partners' attempts to gear up for cloud computing.

Microsoft must balance the cool and creepy aspects of AI technology as it releases tools for developers.

CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft is committed to artificial intelligence-based chat software.

The Twitter bot quickly learned how to make racist, sexist remarks and parroted Donald Trump.

Foreign profits help Fortune 500 companies dodge hundred of billions of dollars in taxes.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has topped Forbes' rich list for the seventeenth time and third year in a row.

Microsoft was early to machine learning but is now competing with Google and Amazon to commercialize the technology.

Chris Liddell seems momentarily lost for words when asked which career achievement he's most proud of.

Matamata-born, New York-based Liddell, a former chief financial officer of Microsoft and General Motors, is looking to spend more time back home.

Juha Saarinen talks evaluating new devices pricing and whether we still pay 'Tech Tax'. + Win a computer worth $1999!

Like Microsoft before it, Google decided it would let other companies build the hardware for the software it developed.

Can Microsoft's new Surface Book engender the kind of devotion it wants?

One of the benefits of working for a multinational is the chance to live and work overseas. For some Kiwis that means relocating to the centre of their career's world.

Is Windows 10 causing UFB congestion? Chorus is rejecting a claim from telco company Digital Island.

Microsoft is improving its policies as the issue of gender equity gains greater prominence in the tech industry.

We don't have Pitbulls or Mattel hoverboards yet, but Japanese car company Lexus recently unveiled a prototype for a real, rideable hoverboard.

This week's Apple conference marked the first time female executives had been on-stage since 2010.

That Apple should buy Greece with all the useless cash it has on hand is just a joke that won't go away.

People no longer need to sign-up to use a preview version of Skype Translator, which handles English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.

Something very weird is happening in the tech world: Under the watch of Satya Nadella, Microsoft looks cool again.

Microsoft's upcoming annual developer conference is seen as crucial by industry experts to introduce appealing new products from the tech giant.

Dame Jenny Shipley wants NZ firms to take advantage of her appointment to the the board of the Boao forum, which has grown to become a major event for world leaders.

How things change: whereas only a few years ago Windows was my main platform for work, last year before I knocked off for the summer holidays, I realised that if Microsoft disappeared, life would go on without skipping a beat.

Microsoft is looking to recruit yet another type of diverse employee: people with autism.

Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer and will rebrand its internet browsing software under what is currently code-named Project Spartan, later this year.

From the iCloud breach that saw nude images of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities leaked online, to "The Snappening" that resulted in thousands of private Snapchat images being....

Team Estimeet, the winners of Microsoft's Imagine Cup innovation award last year, have headed off on an all-expenses-paid month in London being mentored by Microsoft.