Reuters - Microsoft Corp. sees the shift by business organizations to Web-based phone systems running on its software to generate "billions" of dollars in revenue for the company, a top executive said on Tuesday.

AP - Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.

AFP - Microsoft researchers from the software giant's labs around the world gathered on Tuesday to conspire on innovations intended to change the world.

AFP - The global software giant Microsoft hit out at Google over copyright in a newspaper column on Tuesday, accusing the search-engine giant of riding roughshod over intellectual rights in a rush to grab content.