Microsoft is reorganizing its Android development teams. The company wants tighter integration between Android and Windows. Better integration may help Microsoft and Google better challenge Apple.

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Blink and you might miss it, but Microsoft is little by little reshaping Google's mobile ecosystem for the better — and all signs suggest it's only getting started. I’m starting to feel like a broken ...

Given its lack of a first-party mobile OS, Microsoft is firmly invested in offering its services on Android, while also being an OEM with the Surface Duo. The company has now created a dedicated ...

Most of us have more apps than we need on our phones, so I’ve always been a little annoyed that reading Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents requires separate apps – even if I’ll only ever ...

I'm starting to wonder whether Microsoft has a new strategy when it comes to signing patent deals with Android/Linux/Chrome OS device makers. On October 1, Microsoft announced it had signed "="" ...

Microsoft's press releases announcing patent-licensing deals with Android vendors sure have changed a lot in the last year or so. Microsoft announced on June 28 it signed a patent deal with Tampa, ...

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Microsoft's Surface Duo deserves your attention, but some of the things we don't yet know about the device may prove to be the most pivotal. Well, gang, it’s finally happened: Hell has officially ...