Interactive NUads advertisements tied to the Kinect sensor will roll out in late spring, Microsoft told CNET this afternoon. But will all other Kinect apps be as privacy-sensitive? [Read more]

Judge Andrea Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court has decided to stay a decision, which could push the ruling back months, according to one report. [Read more]

A potential use for MirageTable includes new ways to play video games

Extent of ban is unclear, but Google and Mozilla are outraged, say Microsoft is promoting a monopoly

Microsoft is making the switch partially because of the release of cloud computing, which requires a significant amount of electricity to run

The software giant pledges to be carbon neutral company-wide by this summer. All of its data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings are scheduled to go green. [Read more]

Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on Windows devices using ARM chips. [Read more]

A newly published patent application from Redmond takes the "Minority Report" concept and puts it in mobile devices. [Read more]

The company is testing a new way to display Bing results -- in a separate tab or window -- among a subset of users. [Read more]

In an announcement of deep and abiding confidence in Windows Phone, Microsoft announces that its phones have a 98 percent global win percentage. Only 98 percent? [Read more]

There are three main reasons for anxiety related to bandwidth caps: invisible balances, mysterious processes and multiple users

Redmond is cutting the name "Azure" out of the branding for its cloud services on its billing portal. [Read more]