How open is Open XML entry? Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay a blogger and standards guru to make changes to Wikipedia articles. The Redmond software giant had agreed to pay blogger Rick ...

Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. While Wikipedia is known as the ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Agile Extensions‘ Wiki extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), the cloud service formerly known as Visual Studio Online. Terms of the deal ...

Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. (MSNBC is a joint Microsoft - ...

Follow the steps below on how to use Wikipedia in Microsoft Word: Launch Microsoft Word Click Insert, then click the Wikipedia button. Click the Trust this add-in button. Enter text into the Search ...

In my post yesterday discussing an attempt by a Microsoft employee to pay a blogger to make changes to certain Wikipedia entries that Microsoft considered unfair, we noted that a Microsoft ...

After asking Google to censor Microsoft.com, Microsoft has given Google a copyright takedown request for a Microsoft Wikipedia page. Microsoft must want to scrub all mentions of itself on the Internet ...

A software engineer in Australia has said he was offered payment by Microsoft to edit certain entries in the Wikipedia online dictionary, opening a heated debate about the ethics of such a move. Rick ...

To Microsoft's roster of employees, add the inventor of the wiki. A wiki? Unless you're heavily into the Internet, chances are you're wondering what the heck that is. The wiki concept was created by ...

Over the last few days, websites have picked up on a story written by blogger Rick Jelliffe. In a post titled, "An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia", Jelliffe says that Microsoft ...

Microsoft will discontinue both its MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software, which have both been surpassed by rising competitors, like Wikipedia. In a message posted on the ...

Within the last few days Microsoft quietly announced it is killing its Encarta encyclopedia, with the actual date of death October, 2009. What it hinted at, but didn’t quite say, was that Wikipedia ...