It only wanted to buy enough to take the outfit off Google's Cloud

Software King of the World Microsoft was not particularly interested in TikTok until President Donald Trump made it part of his trade war with China, after Tik Tok users embarrassed him by stuffing up one of his election rallies.

Stop this, it is too silly

Software King of the World Microsoft, and one time saviour of Apple, has stepped into the spat between the Fruity Cargo cult and Epic Games.

Is this what the whole thing was about?

US President Donald Trump has said tech giant Oracle would be "a great company" to take over TikTok's US operations.

AMD RDNA 2 architecture

Software king of the world Microsoft has been on the Interwebs talking about the gubbins inside its new Xbox Series X, and what interested us was its GPU.

Reviews seem rather positive

Microsoft has released a new flight simulator using a new graphics engine and satellite data from Bing Maps.

Know when to fold em, know when to hold em

Microsoft has revealed its dual-screen Surface Duo device which runs Google's Android operating system, is "purpose-built for mobile productivity."

The Volish love of open stuff takes on Google

While the world worries about the governance of Google's Istio service mesh, Microsoft has seen an opportunity to offer a simple and truly open alternative.

Microsoft's impact on history will echo down the timeline for ever

Over the past year or so, some 27 human genes have been renamed, all because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates.

Still important for the future

When Software King of the World Microsoft removed the option to purchase 12 months of Xbox Live Gold from the Microsoft Store, many tthought the outfit could be planning to kill off the service with the launch of the Xbox Series X. 

They don't need it anyway

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested Microsoft could divest its holdings in China if it buys the Chinese owned short-video app TikTok.