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The Surface 2 tablet launched yesterday in New York.

Taxes may help explain Microsoft's recent purchase of much of Nokia.

The tech giant is paying $ 2.2 billion to license Nokia patents.

Mark Zuckerberg probably has enough on his plate that he won't apply to succeed Steve Ballmer.

Ballmer has led the company at a difficult time for the tech giant, which has struggled to transition its products out of the PC era.

We can now add Microsoft to the list of companies trying to woo users by producing original TV shows.

New documents, leaked by Edward Snowden and reported in The Guardian newspaper, show how the NSA got Microsoft to circumvent its own encryption to intercept Outlook and Skype communications.

Some say at its heart, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's plan is meant to unify a company that has been more of a group of tech fiefdoms.

The tech giant plans to revamp its structure and management, as the tech world changes from PCs to mobile devices and cloud computing.