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Microsoft changes Xbox One policies after outcry

Microsoft rolled back a much-criticized requirement that its upcoming Xbox One gaming console be regularly connected to the Internet and made clear that there will be no limitations on sharing games. Full story

Microsoft talked with Nokia about buying devices unit-report

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently talked with Nokia about buying the Finnish phone maker's devices unit, but the discussions faltered and are not likely to be revived, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition. Full story

Microsoft offers hefty bounties to thwart hackers

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major security holes in its software. Full story

Microsoft Offers to Pay for Software Bugs

In a startling move, Microsoft caved in to industry pressures today and announced that, for the first time, it would be offering cash rewards for security vulnerabilities in its software — a "bug bounty," in hacker parlance. Full story

Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. Full story

US judge in Microsoft antitrust case dies at 76

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died. Full story

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Microsoft is now going to create a "store within a store" inside Best Buy locations in the U.S. and Canada. CNBC's Jon Fortt speaks to Tami Reller, the CFO & CMO of Microsoft Windows, about the move.

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A Nokia executive shows the new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system at a launch event in New York, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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People use computers at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego January 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake

New XBOX ONE device announced
New XBOX ONE device announced

epa03710652 Undated handout photo released by Microsoft on 21 May 2013 shows the the new Xbox One controller. Microsoft says the Xbox One gaming and entertainment device will be released later in 2013. EPA/MICROSOFT / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES