Microsoft

Nokia Lumia Icon on sale Feb. 20 exclusively at Verizon

$200 and a two-year contract gets you a quad-core, 5-in. HD display, 20 megapixel beast

Windows Phone’s Q4 share stumbles as Nokia’s sales slump

As Nokia goes, so goes Microsoft's shot in smartphones

Smartphone shipments hit 1 billion in 2013, says IDC

Android dominated the market, Apple saw modest growth and Windows Phone shipments almost doubled

Tip of the Hat: The ‘forking’ of Android is inevitable

No matter what it does, Google can't prevent device makers from customizing Android -- 'open source is by its nature forkable'

iTunes is almost as big a biz as OEM Windows

Apple's revenue from music, apps and services equal 91% of what Microsoft made from the group that sells Windows to computer makers

Windows XP isn’t the only software getting the knife in 8 weeks

Microsoft will also end support for Office 2003 and Exchange 2003

Microsoft addresses critical IE vulnerabilities for Patch Tuesday

For this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft covers 24 vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer

Even as a top target, Microsoft’s security is impressive

Microsoft was under assault as it always is, but there were a few interesting developments in this report.

7 Reasons Not to Use Open Source Software

Microsoft offers multifactor authentication to Office 365 users

Since June last year, users with administrative roles had the facility