Mary Branscombe

Microsoft is open sourcing the deep learning tools it uses to build Cortana's speech recognition, which it hopes will match humans by 2019.

Skipping some of the layers in a very deep neural network let Microsoft get the best image recognition results in the annual machine learning contest.

Microsoft open sourced Live Writer – could that mean other Microsoft software might go open source too?

Jeffrey Snover, lead architect for Windows Server, wants to take the drama out of running servers by making them more like the cloud.

Anyone who can use Excel or PowerPoint can develop mobile apps, says Microsoft.

Office on iPad, Office in the cloud, Sway, Outlook on Android – Office is everywhere but what is Microsoft planning next?

Choose what to update and whether to stick with standard updates or try the future out faster as a Windows Insider.

It's the 25th anniversary of the release of Office, so we thought we'd recall some of the features we pine for (and a couple we don't).

Microsoft has released more machine learning tools for making apps that can detect emotions, recognise voices and more.

What exactly did Microsoft look at to find out who was using so much space that it had to reduce OneDrive storage limits?

Updated Can't decide if you're ready for Microsoft's Windows 10? We can help on that score…

Windows 10 might be a free upgrade for many users, but it's not always easy to get your system to believe it's legitimate.

Want to join the domain or encrypt your PC? You need Windows 10 Pro. Here's how to get it without reinstalling.

Updated Windows 10 doesn't just go back to the Start menu – it's full of useful new tools and some things that are just different.

Office add-ins let you add more features to Office 2016 on multiple platforms, and here are our favourites.

The smartphone-style Action Centre in Windows 10 collects alerts from multiple apps, and pop-up notifications have more features.

Not all websites work with Edge, but you can still use Enterprise Mode to get them to run in the right IE mode.

Office 365 gets new features far more often than Exchange, Lync and SharePoint ever did on premise, and there are new consumer tools too.

You can finally copy and paste in the command line, but Windows 10 adds some other clever tricks which we'll share with you here.

YouTube is the home for video online – but could Microsoft turn OneDrive into the home for data?