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Clippy will help you get across the street. Hey, do you want a coupon for Starbucks?

If you can't beat the haters, win them back by admitting they were right before. And dress up a cat.

3D scanning and motion-capture technologies combine to create more realistic animations.

Microsoft parodies a 1980s TV show to attack Google. Yeah, that'll work.

Microsoft Germany uses Ghostbusters to try and make Windows Phone 7.5 seem cool.

During its last CES keynote Microsoft recapped 15 years of presentations by setting Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to music.

Microsoft updates Xbox 360 Dashboard with a whole bunch of options to try and get users to not just play video games, but watch TV, ads or search the Web.

I joke a lot on this blog about how robots will eventually rule the world, but most of the robotics work going on today focuses on the great things that robots can do to help humanity.

At the company's BUILD conference in California, Microsoft teased Windows 8 and offered developers the option to download an early realsed of the OS.

Microsoft posted the first developer preview beta of Windows 8 late on Tuesday.

Microsoft said its XBox 360 outsold competing game consoles in the US for the seventh straight month in July. The company said it sold 277,000 units during the month, giving it a 45% share for the current generation of game boxes, which include Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii.

The accessory for Kinect reduces the amount of space needed to play by 40 percent.