Profits of $1.58bn on revenue of $9.6bn.

Company credits Vista and Office for $17.4bn revenues.

Search, YouTube and Gmail generate big bucks.

Most profitable March quarter in company's history.

US and South Korea exposed as biggest culprits.

Smartphone software developer continues market dominance.

Chip giant accused of violating antitrust laws.

While more expensive PC's are getting harder to sell, netbooks and cheap systems are showing improved growth.

Microsoft has officially confirmed that the two newest versions of Windows will be out before the end of the year..

Rebuilding effort to cost 10 per cent of its workforce.

Are 32 nanometers better than 45? You bet your sweet High-K/metal gate. IBM is claiming a 35% performance gain over today's CPUs.

Lawsuit alleges million dollar kickbacks to keep Intel inside Dell.

Acquisition of IronPort to boost email/messaging security.

Microsoft developers have provided users with a laundry list of new features and interface changes for the upcoming Windows 7 Release Candidate build..

A new report is predicting that sales of Blu-ray discs will top 100 million by the end of 2009..

Vista and XP updates will be pushed to users automatically, whether you like it or not.

Company shifts focus to printers.

Latest acquisition aimed at spectrum management.

Redmond steps up migration campaign hours before IBM unveils new Lotus software.

'Stripped-down' device aimed at home users seeking a simple back-up solution.