“Viva Piņata” Tour features lineup of children’s activities, live demonstrations on Xbox 360.

Broadcast and online journalists can search, preview and download media assets online in the PressPass Broadcast Room.

From naughty to nice, Xbox 360 has something for everyone this holiday season: more than 160 high-definition games and a host of new accessories make up the best 12 days ever.

For the first time, get real-time weather forecast information and the freshest brewed coffee with a single device.

New SQL Server, Visual Studio innovations highlighted at 2006 PASS Community Summit.

Groundbreaking worldwide “Halo 3” public beta and “Halo 2” maps exclusively for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 coming in spring; first “Halo 3” TV ad coming this December.

Small businesses in the U.S. to receive special deals from Best Buy and Toshiba.

Microsoft Office Live provides opportunities for partners and invites solution developers to build industry-specific solutions for small businesses worldwide.

Sprint, Microsoft form strategic alliance to drive new services; first offering is Windows Live Search for mobile.

Prize package includes $100,000 working capital, storefront for year, software tools.

Company applauds effort by FTC to expose alleged spyware ploy.

Local content and services enhance network for consumers and advertisers.

White paper demonstrates advantages of seamless access to information, empowering employees in retail banking environments.

Microsoft’s Get Net Safe tour to deliver Internet safety guidance and tools to help secure area residents.

New initiative helps banks more easily integrate software from multiple Microsoft partners.

At Tech•Ed: IT Forum Europe, Microsoft details new offerings to deliver increased business value for customers through next-generation product portfolio.

Founding members of Interop Vendor Alliance, including Sun Microsystems, Novell, BEA Systems and SOFTWARE AG, share common goal of making technologies work better together for customers.

Demonstrates latest advancements from newly released Zune and Windows Live services.

Through Microsoft’s Volume Licensing offers, customers can take advantage of cost savings and early access to major new product releases at CompUSA stores.

New Cingular exclusive offers ultra-thin Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 smart device with fully integrated QWERTY keyboard in sleek 3G-powered form factor, and for those on-the-go entertainment enthusiasts, BlackJack also offers access to Cingular Music — the ultimate mobile music experience.

Wireless sharing poised to change the way people experience digital music.

The agreement allows expanded intellectual property access for each company.

Breakthrough Xbox 360 game “Viva Piņata” hits store shelves and creates new Piņata Islands around the world.

Allchin to provide update on Windows Vista.

Xbox 360 exclusive “Gears of War” poised to light up Xbox Live leaderboards and online battlefields starting today; title forecast to be the fastest-selling original game ever for Xbox.

Microsoft SaaS On-Ramp Program provides discounted server and database software to help spur innovation in the software as a service market.

“A Big Life With Sissy Biggers” webisodes to air exclusively on MSN.

Global competition invites students to apply technology and artistic talents to enable a better education for all.

Inclusion of PreEmptive Solutions’ Dotfuscator Community Edition is latest milestone en route to the release of Microsoft Visual Studio code-named “Orcas.”

Microsoft Office Live adManager Beta and Office Live Business Contact Manager will be available to help small businesses stay in touch with their customers.

2007 Office system released to manufacturers; the company looks ahead to worldwide business availability.

Microsoft releases the .NET Framework 3.0, Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office for the 2007 Microsoft Office system, ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition.

Microsoft delivers powerful new user experience for better sales, marketing and service and introduces new licensing options for Microsoft CRM.

To address the unique needs of midsize businesses, Microsoft delivers new solutions, tools and services for its customers and partners worldwide.

Microsoft Virtual Earth platform powers Live Search and provides a more immersive mapping experience for consumers, enterprises and developers.

Gates shares vision for Microsoft Dynamics in the “Live” era.

Microsoft discusses how companies are turning to business management software to unlock the “convenient truth” that can drive their environmental initiatives.

Xbox 360 will become first gaming console to offer downloads of over 1,000 hours of TV shows such as “CSI,” “Robot Chicken” and “South Park,” and movies such as “V for Vendetta” and “Nacho Libre.”

Photographers who are making a difference discuss the power of photography to influence social change.

Details of the announcement will be provided during a press conference.

Gates’ address to open three-day agenda of speakers, product demonstrations and learning sessions for Microsoft Dynamics solutions and the company’s approach to addressing the needs of midsize businesses.

Companies also announce a patent agreement covering proprietary and open source products.

The Microsoft “Zoo Tycoon” franchise and the Georgia Aquarium challenge kids to discuss marine conservation.

Increasing awareness of challenges and expanding teaching skills seen as vital to success.

Industry-leading commercial embedded software opens core components in shared source, ships with newly integrated Visual Studio 2005.

Chinese consumers will benefit from Microsoft IP Ventures’ success pairing global innovations with regional companies.

Latest enforcement efforts help rid auction sites of dangerous software.

Companies seek to improve performance, reliability and stability of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server “Longhorn.”

Events with Microsoft leadership slated for November.

Enhanced capabilities plus seamless integration with URGE make for all-new digital entertainment experiences.

New online services with Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007.

Microsoft delivers double digit revenue growth

At a gathering of European IT security professionals, Microsoft security executive asserts that the shift to 64-bit computing is an inflection point for PC security.

Microsoft’s Get Net Safe tour to deliver Internet safety guidance and tools to help secure area residents.

Award recognizes contributions to public historically black colleges and universities, and efforts to promote high-technology careers.

Microsoft provides accounting treatment for its technology guarantee programs and other items.

Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide holiday PC buyers with low-cost upgrades to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release.

Epicor Information Worker boosts productivity and collaboration by delivering improved access to business data through the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Open Specification Promise for leading e-mail authentication specification is designed to make e-mail communications safer for everyone.

Agilent Technologies, Applied Biosystems and Illumina Inc. team up with Microsoft and software providers to accelerate work in biomarker discovery.