I heard about this and just found this story.

Emily writes:

Here is an intersting one:

"Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Google Inc."

This is the latest news as of July 30th.

"Microsoft has signed a deal to bring cloud computing applications tocustomers of the LG Uplus telecommunications service."

I'll post more if I find anything else out.

"Microsoft is pulling the plug Friday on a program that paid people to use its Bing search engine. The company said it did not see the broad adoption of the search engine that it had hoped for."

From WWW.NPR.ORG, thanks Alice

I saw this posted Friday on NEWS.YAHOO.COM.

"Microsoft executives pledged to "lead with the cloud" on Thursday, acknowledging that offering business customers a choice between packaged software and cloud-based services had been a mistake."

I heard about this and just found this story.

"Microsoft Corp showed off prototype phones featuring its new mobile software to Wall Street analysts on Thursday, but is yet to set a date for their rollout beyond availability this holiday shopping season."

Steven wrote:

I came across this post today and thought I would pass it along.

"Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said tablet computers are a big issue for him as Apple Inc. seized the momentum in a category Microsoft has worked on for more than a decade."

Would anyone care to comment on this?