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.

Here's why Microsoft just bought the world's smartest keyboard.

Windows 10 is now on 200m devices and on track for fastest growth of any version of software.

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

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.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen reviews Microsoft's new software, Windows 10, after attending a launch event in Sydney.

Microsoft has agreed to invest about US$100 million ($152 million) in Uber Technologies at a valuation of around US$50 billion, a source says.

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

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.

The richest people on Earth got richer in 2014, adding US$92 billion ($118 billion) to their collective fortune in the face of falling energy prices and geopolitical turmoil incited by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This week, as The Interview's December 25 US release date loomed, the Guardians of Peace threatened "the world will be full of fear", hinting at a 9/11-style attack.