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A growing segment of corporate America’s biggest names have denounced last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by devotees of President Donald Trump who sought to overturn Joe Biden’s election as president, with many saying they will halt or suspend political donations.

Microsoft said Thursday in a blog post that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn’t appear to have caused any additional harm

New video gaming consoles are sure to be on many Christmas lists this year. Britton Peele with The Dallas Morning News has a review and even wrote a parent’s guide to gaming consoles that can be found at dallasnews.com/geek!

If you look at the batch of new video game consoles from Microsoft and Sony this year, you will find a lot of similarities.

The new digital alliance with the city of Dallas, part of Microsoft’s “Accelerate Initiative,” is focused on closing equity and digital skills gaps.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has announced a new “digital alliance” with Microsoft in order to be on the forefront of the next technological revolution.

Microsoft is coming to Southlake and hiring more than 500 new employees.

Microsoft says it has taken legal action seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware

In addition to a wide variety of airplanes to pilot, the new Microsoft Flight Simulator offers what is generally agreed to be the most realistic and complete digital representation of the world that has ever been made available to the public, NBC News reports. It includes 1.5 billion rendered buildings and enough data to fill 1.7 million DVDs. For digital...

Microsoft announced Monday that it will buy ZeniMax Media, the company that owns well-known video game publisher Bethesda, for $7.5 billion in cash.

The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as the American tech partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft says it is detecting new cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran. The attacks targeting American voters and both campaigns in the lead up to the presidential election. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports from London.

Microsoft confirmed the launch plans for its next-generation video game consoles on Wednesday, with pre-orders starting later this month. The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S go on sale Nov. 10, with pre-orders starting Sept. 22. The Series S, a digital-only box, will cost $299. The Series X, which uses traditional discs and features much higher-end specs, will run…

Oracle, an enterprise software giant, is in talks to acquire social media company TikTok’s U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand assets, according to a person familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump’s demand that the U.S. government get a cut of Microsoft buying TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation

President Donald Trump says he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns

Microsoft on Friday announced it will permanently close its Microsoft Store retail locations. It will instead focus on its online store at Microsoft.com, where customers can go for support, sales, training and more. Microsoft said its retail team members will help on the website instead of in store. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC that all Microsoft employees will have the opportunity to stay...

Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM

A new report claims that Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to Chinese surveillance firms accused of human rights abuses and which are now on a U.S. blacklist. Top10VPN, a site that reviews virtual private network (VPN) services and researches topics on privacy, said in a report that it had identified U.S. technology giants...

A government watchdog agency says the Defense Department’s decision-making process in awarding a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft was in line with legal and government purchasing standards