Company strips down its Shared Source Initiative to three licenses, one of which is modeled on the Mozilla Public License. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software. When ...

Just received a redeemable code for Xbox or the Microsoft Store on PC? Codes are Microsoft's method of sharing subscriptions, store credit and games outside of Xbox, with 25-character keys for ...

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code ...