Although Microsoft invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off on Monday, this isn’t the first time Microsoft played the e-book game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas, but it ...

The Microsoft 365 roadmap has revealed the PDF reader in Edge will soon be getting a big update. The future update is centered around free-form highlighting, and overall improvements with reading ...

Send to Kindle from Microsoft Word, a feature that's not even three years old, is being axed, according to some digging into ...

Ahead of next week's ISTE EdTech conference in Philadelphia, Microsoft is unveiling some new features in its education-focused tools. Among the products getting updates are its Immersive Reader ...

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Microsoft is officially putting their MS Reader system to bed. First made available in 2000, before e-ink readers were more than a twinkle in some materials researcher’s eye, the application was ...

Microsoft recently rolled out Edge version 83 to users but the company is already working on version 84 which is currently available in Canary and Dev Insider channels. Last week, Microsoft announced ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of two new tools focused on eBooks. The Dictionary Authoring Kit (DAK) 1.0 enables publishers and enthusiasts to quickly and ...

REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 24, 2001 — At a conceptual level, the basics of reading haven’t changed much through the centuries. Words or symbols embedded on a solid surface — whether stone tablets, scrolls ...

Software giant to discontinue downloads for the pioneering app, which launched well before the popularity of e-book reader devices. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...