In a recent article -- "How much would a Windows 10 subscription cost?" -- I took a look at the history of Windows pricing and speculated what a Windows 10 subscription might look like. At that time, ...

Will Microsoft offer a subscription-based version of Windows for consumers, offering annual pricing on its flagship operating system? The company has consistently avoided that topic, with Microsoft ...

Microsoft has asked a Seattle court to reconsider a strongly worded ruling, issued in March, which said that Windows is a generic term and as such Microsoft does not have exclusive rights to the name.

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Lindows Inc. has been under a worldwide trademark lawsuit siege from Microsoft. A series of suits against the company centers on the similarity of the Lindows name to the Redmond company's trademarked ...

Last month an innovative developer created a Chrome extension called Windows Timeline Support that utilized the Microsoft Graph to insert Chrome web browsing history in the Windows 10 timeline. This ...

Offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade for most Windows 7 and 8.1 owners seems like a generous move, but Microsoft might simply just be carving the path for a new way users will be getting updates in ...

Microsoft on Monday lost the first stage in its battle to stop a San Diego software company from branding itself as Lindows.com and its Linux-based operating system -- which will run popular ...

Leading intellectual property lawyers are suggesting that a U.S. District Court ruling earlier this week, which stated the word “windows” is generic and cannot be trademarked, is incorrect and ...

Microsoft recently landed several blows in Europe against Lindows.com Inc. in its ongoing “Windows” trademark battle. However, the Redmond firm on Tuesday suffered a potentially major setback ...

Microsoft wants to lock down the obvious name for a Windows subscription service, filing a trademark for “Windows 365.” The trademark application now appears on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

In an apparent response to competitor complaints, the federal Patent and Trademark Office has reversed an earlier decision granting Microsoft a trademark for its popular Windows personal-computer ...