Company Profile for Microsoft
| Founded | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States (04/04/1975) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software Online services Video games |
| Products | See listing |
| Subsidiaries | List of Microsoft subsidiaries |
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One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
425-882-8080
Toll free: 1-800-642-7676
TTY: 1-800-892-5234
Fax: 425-936-7329
www.microsoft.com
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Microsoft Confirms $99 Xbox 360 For Those Who Love Pricey Monthly Subscriptions
By Chris Morran on May 7, 2012 1:37 PM
58 Comments
Last week, it was rumored that Microsoft would be slashing the price on its Xbox 360 game console to a mere $99 with the asterisk that you also sign up for two years of its Xbox Live Gold online service. The company officially announced the offer today, and confirmed just how huge that asterisk is. More »
Microsoft: The Person Using Your Stolen Xbox Totally Didn't Commit Any Fraud
By Laura Northrup on May 1, 2012 9:00 AM
63 Comments
Ashlee's house was robbed last Thanksgiving, and the culprits were never caught. They replaced the stolen items, and life went on. Until her Xbox Live account signed on using another console. The same console that had been stolen, whereabouts now unknown. Maybe the identity or location of the person now using Ashlee's Xbox could provide valuable insights into who robbed their house five months ago. Microsoft wasn't interested in helping, and determined that the new owner's use of her account and attempt to use it to buy points weren't fraudulent. Well, that's good to hear! More »
Audit Finds That Foxconn Workers Are Laboring Under Crappy Conditions
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 30, 2012 11:45 AM
30 Comments
While it turned out that monologuist Mike Daisey made up a bunch of stuff about working conditions at Foxconn, that doesn't mean that things there are all sunshine and roses. A recent labor audit found the giant Chinese manufacturer has working conditions that need a whole heck of a lot of improvement. More »
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Alleged Thief Picked Billionaire Microsoft Co-Founder To Defraud
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 27, 2012 10:30 AM
20 Comments
Maybe stealing from someone super rich seemed like a good idea at the time, but using the credit card of the co-founder of Microsoft? Someone's bound to notice that. The FBI says a U.S. soldier changed the address on a bank account belonging to Paul Allen and then had a debit card sent to his home. More »
Microsoft Tells Man He Didn't Win Windows Phone Challenge "Just Because"
By Chris Morran on March 26, 2012 8:45 AM
82 Comments
UPDATE: After hearing about this story, Microsoft's Ben Rudolph reached out to the non-winning winner, Tweeting "I want to make things right. So I've got a laptop & phone (& apology) for you. Email me!" More »
Microsoft Patents System That Would Let You Pay To Skip Commercials
By Chris Morran on March 20, 2012 1:15 PM
44 Comments
It used to be that streaming a show online meant you had to deal with a minimum number of ads. But those online ad breaks are now growing longer and longer, and you usually don't have a method for fast-forwarding past them. That's why Microsoft has patented a system that would allow you to skip ads — for a price. More »
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Change Xbox Live Gamertag, Lose EA Gun Club Privileges
By Laura Northrup on February 17, 2012 10:30 AM
25 Comments
Jason is a longtime member of Electronics Arts' Gun Club, a rewards program that gives special perks and previews to fans of EA games. A few months ago, he had to change his Xbox Live gamertag because of a complaint about it. We won't print the tag, but it wasn't anything offensive or vulgar, and he got to keep the same tag by adding "The" to the beginning of it. Simple enough. The problem is that changing your gamertag severs the tie between your Live account and your Gun Club account forever. Oddly, no one at EA knows how to deal with this situation. More »
Microsoft Set To Release Windows 8 Preview Feb. 29
By Phil Villarreal on February 10, 2012 8:15 AM
60 Comments
If you want a peek at Microsoft's next operating system and won't mind enduring possible pre-release glitches, you won't have to wait much longer to try it out. Microsoft announced it's expanding its preview of Windows 8 to the general public Feb. 29. Members of the developer community have had their paws on the preview since September. More »
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Xbox Live Bans User For Getting Hacked
By Laura Northrup on February 2, 2012 4:31 PM
54 Comments
After his Xbox Live account was stolen, Josh had to file a Better Business Bureau complaint in order to make MIcrosoft pay attention to him and restore his account access. After three months, he was delighted to log back in to his account, but surprised to learn that he had been banned for a "code of conduct violation." What did his account do to get banned? It was trying to steal other accounts. Imagine that. More »
Microsoft Ad Attacks Google For Only Caring About Money
By Chris Morran on February 1, 2012 2:15 PM
41 Comments
Once upon a time, a lot of people viewed Microsoft as the epitome of corporate omnipresence, as many of us wrote our 11-part fantasy series in Word, checked our Hotmail accounts while surfing the web on Internet Explorer, probably on a computer running Windows. But now we have Google Docs, Gmail, and Chrome, and Microsoft is taking out full-page ads warning consumers of how this other company is the one to be reviled. More »
