newsmaker At first glance, you probably wouldn't think ginger-haired Brad Smith could talk someone down from the ledge of a building. But put him in a boardroom, and he'll be able to negotiate his way ...

Brad Smith first visited Microsoft’s Redmond campus as a young lawyer in 1990. The cab driver got lost on the way from Sea-Tac Airport. Imagine that happening today. The tech sector exploded shortly ...

Microsoft made a lot of major news in 2010, in no small part due to its decision to get back into the smartphone game with Windows Phone 7. The software giant has also redoubled its efforts to be on ...

I've sometimes joked that you can tell a lot about Apple and Microsoft from the addresses they choose for their campuses. Apple's aesthetics and the way it looks internally rather than externally for ...

What is it with Microsoft and open source? It’s not so complicated. Microsoft hates the competition from open source. Microsoft loves the benefits of open source. Microsoft wants the customers who ...