In September 2007, Microsoft closed FASA Studios and licensed the Shadowrun electronic entertainment rights to Smith & Tinker, a company owned by Jordan Weisman, one of the original creators of Shadowrun.

* Donkey Kong Country Returns ( Revival developed by Retro Studios due to Rare being bought by Microsoft )

AOL has gone to great lengths to keep competitors ( namely Microsoft, XMPP, and Cerulean Studios ) from implementing compatible clients for their proprietary messaging systems.

In 2004, Sakaguchi founded Mistwalker with the financial backing of Microsoft Game Studios.

In February 2005, it was announced that Mistwalker would be working with Microsoft Game Studios to create two role-playing video games for the Xbox 360.

* Iron Brigade, creative director ( Double Fine, Microsoft Studios )

* Haunt, voice actor ( NanaOn-Sha, Zoë Mode, Microsoft Studios )

* Double Fine Happy Action Theater, director ( Double Fine, Microsoft Studios )

* Kinect Party, creative director ( Double Fine, Microsoft Studios )

Halo: Combat Evolved, also referred to as Halo: CE, Halo 1, or simply Halo, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

As rumors had predicted, Microsoft announced on June 19, 2000 that it had acquired Bungie Studios.

: 2008: Realtime Worlds / Microsoft Game Studios ( for Crackdown )

* Midtown Madness, racing game by Microsoft and Angel Studios

Black & White is a 2001 video game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh.

It was under development by Microsoft Game Studios ( MGS ) for Windows-running PCs until it was cancelled in early 2004.

* Halo ( series ), a video game franchise by Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios

Project Gotham Racing ( PGR ) is a racing game, the first in its series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox gaming console, and released on 9th November 2001 in North America, and 14th March 2002 in Europe.

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott, but was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when it was officially disbanded.

Iron Brigade ( originally titled Trenched but changed due to trademark issues ) was developed as an Xbox Live Arcade with association with Microsoft Game Studios, and similarly received positive praise from journalists.

* 2011 Iron Brigade ( formerly titled Trenched )-Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows ( Microsoft Studios )

* 2012 Double Fine Happy Action Theater-Xbox Live Arcade with Kinect ( Microsoft Studios )

* 2012 Kinect Party-Xbox Live Arcade with Kinect ( Microsoft Studios )

Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Games for Windows and Windows Phone platforms.

On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.

In 1983, Microsoft announced the development of Windows, a graphical user interface ( GUI ) for its own operating system ( MS-DOS ), which had shipped for IBM PC and compatible computers since 1981.

Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3. 1's replacement ( Windows 95, codenamed Chicago ), which would unify the two into one operating system.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

At the Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 2008, Microsoft also announced Windows Server 2008 R2, as the server variant of Windows 7.

Both Red Hat and Microsoft announced plans to drop Itanium support in their operating systems due to lack of market interest ; although, other Linux distributions such as Debian remain available for Itanium.

Microsoft announced the Cairo project in 1991 ; the Cairo specification included similar object-oriented user interface features for a coming consumer version of Windows NT.

Similarly, Microsoft announced Language Integrated Query ( LINQ ) and DLINQ, an implementation of LINQ, in September 2005, to provide close, language-integrated database query capabilities with its programming languages C # and VB. NET 9.

In February 2011 Nokia announced its decision to drop Symbian technologies and base their future smartphones on Microsoft platform instead.

On 5 January 2010, a senior manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft announced on his official blog that Microsoft had just requested to join the SVG Working Group of the W3C in order to " take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users ," although no plans for SVG support in Internet Explorer were mentioned at that time.

When TrueType and the license to Microsoft was announced, John Warnock of Adobe gave an impassioned speech in which he claimed Apple and Microsoft were selling snake oil, and then announced that the Type 1 format was open for anyone to use.

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.

It would have consisted of all Keen games packaged together for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC, but it never got out of the planning stages, and was never even officially announced.

On April 16, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player would not be included in Windows RT, the line of Windows designed to run on ARM based devices.

On January 12, 2006 Microsoft announced it had ceased development of Windows Media Player for Mac.

In 2009, Nigeria's EFCC announced that they have adopted smart technology developed by Microsoft to track down fraudulent emails.

Nonetheless, on January 11, 1995, Microsoft announced that it had licensed the Mosaic technology from Spyglass, which it would use to create Internet Explorer.

At the 2008 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Services Platform, a cloud-based operating system which Microsoft is developing.

In November, 2010, TurboHercules announced that it had received an investment from Microsoft Corporation.