First up for MSN Originals is an interactive unscripted series that allows the MSN audience to manage a minor league baseball team.

Working full time at Microsoft through June 2008, Gates then will continue as chairman and advisor while increasing Foundation efforts; Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie to assume expanded roles.

News conference to begin today at 1:30 p.m. PDT.

Weeklong Protect Yourself This Summer effort aims to educate consumers on ways to protect themselves, their families and their PC on the Internet.

Workers report that Microsoft Work Essentials is giving them the templates, tools, tips and tricks to help get their jobs done, regardless of their computer savvy.

MSN is sponsoring "Under the Butterfly," a pilot program geared toward helping boys and girls across America while guiding customers to unique content across MSN channels.

Industry and government leaders to provide input on making technologies work better together.

MSN will give fans around the world an opportunity to view the entire Dixie Chicks concert from the famous Shepherds Bush Empire in London.

Redesigned watches feature full metal, leather or cloth bands, double the storage capacity, and improved download speed.

Companies introduce easy-to-deploy, enterprise-class push e-mail experience and solution-specific rate plans.

First webcams from Microsoft make seeing, hearing and sharing a breeze.

Advanced senior-level program goes live today.

Q&A: Microsoft’s ongoing investments in the System Center family, including key enhancements to Systems Management Server 2003, aim to help customers take faster, easier advantage of new operating system capabilities.

The new role-based composite application features collaboration capabilities, flexibility and business intelligence.

Introducing LOBi for Office SharePoint Server, new capabilities enabling traditional business applications to deeply integrate into the familiar Office environment.

At Microsoft Tech•Ed 2006, VP Ted Kummert discusses new security product announcements, including the new Microsoft Forefront brand, that reinforce a broader business customer promise to "Protect Information, Control Access."

As part of Microsoft’s goal to ensure that people can easily embrace the power of information technology, Microsoft Exchange’s new mobile features have been designed to make life simpler and less harried for IT pros and end users.

The Microsoft Application Platform is a portfolio of technology capabilities, core products and best practice guidance, focused on helping IT and development departments to partner with the business to maximize opportunity.

New product offerings, key investment areas for IT professionals and developers unveiled at Tech•Ed 2006.

Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie and Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia look at how software plus services will transform the enterprise.

How customer commitment is driving Microsoft’s growing success in business software.

Q&A: The findings of a Keystone Strategy, Inc. study conducted under the direction of Professor Marco Iansiti of Harvard Business School support Microsoft’s People-Ready Business vision, and sharply refute claims discounting the strategic value of IT.

Company’s software offering is its first designed to run parallel, high-performance computing applications to solve complex computations.

Offering will be the first in France based on the Microsoft TV software platform.

Windows Live Books Publisher Program enables publishers to easily submit content for inclusion in the Windows Live Book Search index.

MSN Video and MSN Spaces are teaming up with the second annual indie TV festival to present independent pilots to audiences worldwide.

The corporate VP of Microsoft Office Business Applications, Lewis Levin, discusses the new performance-management offering, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, and the company's approach to business intelligence.

Comprehensive performance management application delivers business scorecarding, analytics and planning with familiar Office software.

Latest release of Antigen products provide e-mail users with increased protection from viruses, spam and other security threats.

Manufacturing and retail customers to benefit from new extended supply-chain functionality via RFID and EDI capabilities in upcoming BizTalk Server 2006 R2 release.

Award-winning marketer brings unique mix of consumer experience and innovation to Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division.

Qwest is the first communications company to announce plans to offer co-branded Windows Live services in the U.S. providing personalized Internet experiences for customers.

Verizon Business, Microsoft sponsor international study; create first-of-its-kind collaboration index to measure impact of communications culture, technologies.

Shanghai Telecom is one of the first telecommunications providers in China to deploy and launch the Microsoft solution.

Alliance brings together leaders in IT and Web services and real-time Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications.

Microsoft IP Ventures program connects U.K. company Skinkers and Irish company Vimio with Microsoft innovations to build technology businesses.

Juniper joins Microsoft TV IPTV ecosystem.

Microsoft activities at GLOBALCOMM include new customer, partner and product announcements, innovative solution demos at the Microsoft booth, and executive speaking sessions on topics such as IMS, VoIP and IPTV.

Microsoft Windows Vista, and the new director of the Accessible Technology Group at Microsoft, Rob Sinclair, are making it easier for people to see, hear and use computers.

An independent research firm’s report states that Microsoft business applications are “one step closer to product convergence.”