Amazon challenges Google, Microsoft with its own email service.

Amazon.com Inc accelerated its efforts to win over corporate clients on Wednesday by announcing an email and scheduling service that will compete with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc .

The service, dubbed WorkMail, will launch in the second quarter and has been developed by the company's cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS). It highlights Amazon's efforts to convince deep-pocketed companies, called enterprises in tech parlance, to shift more of their work to AWS.

Microsoft officially announced that it had begun the rollout of the Lumia Denim update, which includes the most recent OS version.

On December 18, Microsoft officially announced that it had begun the rollout of the Lumia Denim update, which includes the most recent OS version, Windows Phone 8.1 Update. Some Lumia handsets have already received the update, but most have not, and the company said that it would expand its rollout further to more devices and markets throughout January.

But it looks like this could be the only update that devices receive before the next major version of the mobile OS is released towards the end of the year.

Microsoft is working on a new browser - known by 'Spartan'

Microsoft is working on a new browser - known by its development code name, 'Spartan' - and we brought you the first images of the new application last week. While other features are starting to be uncovered, we have found out a bit more about how the browser will work across Microsoft's ecosystem.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO to be awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO to be awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has been selected for a Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, which will be presented to him on January 9, 2015 in Gandhinagar.

Yahoo and Microsoft Corp search engines temporarily went dark on Friday after Microsoft pushed out a bad code update.

Yahoo and Microsoft Corp search engines temporarily went dark on Friday after Microsoft pushed out a bad code update and then struggled to roll it back, a person briefed on the outages told Reuters.

Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine on its social networking site.

Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine on its social networking site.

Searches on Facebook have long been geared towards helping users connect with friends and to find other information that exists within the walls of the 1.35 billion-user social networking service. But for years, Facebook’s search results also included links to standalone websites that were provided by Bing.

Microsoft has released its Skype 7 for Windows

Microsoft has released its Skype 7 for Windows with
improved features following complaints from users
regarding its screen space that the app consumes.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's package $84 million (roughly Rs. 520 crores)

Microsoft shareholders gave a lukewarm vote of approval Wednesday for CEO Satya Nadella's $84 million (roughly Rs. 520 crores) pay package, after an investor advisory group said the company was paying him too much.