Microsoft’s Work & Play Bundle packages Office 365 Home, Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Music Pass, Skype Unlimited World and Wi-Fi. Microsoft Bundling used to be a bad word at Microsoft, considering the company’s long-running problems with the Justice Department. But these days, bundling is once again king at the company. On Monday, Microsoft launched a …

Microsoft Office docs have a big presence in Dropbox already. Dropbox Microsoft and cloud storage vendor Dropbox are partnering to allow users to access Dropbox directly from Office apps and edit Office files from the Dropbox app. Dropbox spelled out the terms of the collaboration Tuesday on the company’s blog, noting that “Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office …

The new MDM features for Office 365 will be available in the first quarter of 2015. Microsoft Microsoft is building a subset of the mobile-device-management (MDM) features it provides with its Intune service into Office 365 for free. Microsoft execs unveiled the addition of the MDM service for Office 365 at the kick-off keynote during Tech Ed Europe in Barcelona, …

Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft officials seldom deny publicly rumors about product futures, even when they are from some sites with less-than-stellar Microsoft-prediction track records. But on October 9, Microsoft execs broke that rule (at least indirectly) and posted on the Microsoft Surface blog that “Businesses can buy with confidence. We are here to stay.” Digitimes published a report on October 9 …

The aim of Microsoft’s Haven tech is to provide could services without access to user data. Getty Images Microsoft Research is building on its “Drawbridge” operating system technology to try to give users more confidence in the safety of the cloud. Company officials detailed that new technology, known as “Haven,” in the “Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven” …

Photos used to create Sways are saved in Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage app. Microsoft Microsoft is releasing on Wednesday a preview of Sway, a new Office content aggregation and presentation application. Codenamed “Remix,” the Sway preview initially will be available as a Web app accessible via several different browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. The preview also will …

Nokia will continue to provide its Here mapping platform to Windows Phone, but it will be developing for other mobile OSes as well. As Microsoft and Nokia continue to go their separate ways, there remains confusion among some about the relationship between the two. Saying “it’s complicated” is a big understatement. A couple of stories this week made it seem …

Microsoft says a fix will be available “as soon as possible.” Sarah Tew/CNET There have been reports by some recent Surface Pro 3 users — specifically those buying the Intel Core i7 devices — that their tablets are overheating. Microsoft officials responded publicly on Tuesday to those reports, saying a fix is in the works and that it will be …

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft has trimmed the prices of its second-generation, Intel-based Surface Pro 2 tablets just ahead of the beginning of delivery of its Surface Pro 3. Microsoft cut prices on some of its Surface Pro 2 models sold in the US by $100 each and others by $200. The 64 GB, Core i5-based Surface Pro …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella did not announce a Surface Mini. But why? Sarah Tew/CNET It’s not fair to call an unofficially announced product “delayed” when it doesn’t debut according to the rumored schedule. But that said, I’m calling the ARM-based Surface Mini delayed. I won’t say the long-rumored device has been axed (though it may have been). But I will …