Eric Engstrom passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the renegades of the Microsoft empire and a brilliant tech innovator. Engstrom was known as part of the “Beastie Boys,” a ...

If Microsoft is planning a global rollout for Game Pass Friends & Family, US is definitely one of the first countries to get it. It seems that Microsoft is currently doing a soft launch for Xbox Game ...

After several months of speculation and rumors, Microsoft has finally pulled the veil back on the now-confirmed Friends & Family plan for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. The “Ultimate” tier includes access ...

Microsoft finally spilled the beans about the upcoming Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family program. Instead of paying for more than one Game Pass subscription, one for each of the accounts used in your ...

To most users, the omnipresent online service Facebook is a useful tool for communicating with friends, peeking and prying at the semipublic identity of others, and most important, putting off ...

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A San Francisco start-up is making friends with Microsoft to create the next great thing in social networking. Wallop is a 12-person start-up that hopes to take on sites like Friendster and ...

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Following a leak last week, Microsoft has unveiled the Game Pass Friends & Family in Ireland, offering the same benefits of Game Pass Ultimate for you and four others at €22 ($22) per month. That's ...

Microsoft tapped some some large corporate customers on Thursday to help launch Office XP, the first of three major products the company is releasing this year. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker ...

Tossup, a new Microsoft app for Android and iOS, aims to make it easier for users to poll their friends and get together. Tossup lets people create quick polls and share them with their friends. The ...

Microsoft sympathizes with people pushing what it calls the “Die IE6, Die” campaign, but argued today that it simply can’t put a stake in the old browser’s heart. “Friends don’t let friends use IE6,” ...