Mary Branscombe

Ensuring Office is relevant for the tablet and smartphone world means making things that will never be on paper.

Microsoft keeps making major improvements in cloud tools for business IT and management.

Microsoft thinks Active Directory integration will be the secret sauce for its cloud enterprise app store.

A simpler licensing system will save mid-size businesses money and time, but it doesn't cover everything yet.

Nokia's HERE Maps team thinks we're ready to start using phones to show us an X-ray vision of the world around us.

Interview All the questions we could get Microsoft to answer about Windows 10.

Opinion Will Windows 10 give Microsoft a perfect score with businesses and consumers alike?

In depth We spoke to Roger Barga, the architect of Azure ML, to obtain his insights into this machine learning cloud service from Microsoft.

In depth Microsoft wants to get big data out of the trough of disillusionment with machine learning for everyone.

Microsoft's new head of research wants to let more people know how much blue sky research brings to the Microsoft products you buy.

Interview Brad Anderson wants enterprise device users to feel liberated rather than constrained by MDM.

Interview Azure has plenty of new features even for those who don't care so much about cloud says Mark Russinovich.

Updated Windows 8.1 might be an improvement, but there are still plenty of annoyances it introduces too. We've put together a list of fixes for the biggest frustrations.

Updated We profile Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop, the man who is about to make waves at Microsoft for a second time.

In Depth Small things are getting smart - and they're making things as big as a city smart too.

In Depth Hotels around the world are integrating NFC into the check-in process, making booking and accessing rooms a smoother process overall.

Interview It does what Microsoft thinks iPad users want but Office for iPad will improve quickly - and come to Android and Windows RT soon.

Interview Businesses can manage the devices that now have Office on, like iPads, with Microsoft's new enterprise mobility suite.

Opinion Office for iPad looks great but Microsoft and Nadella now have to deliver on every other Microsoft product too.

In Depth OneDrive for Business has called new features to the battlefield in its bid for cloud productivity dominance.

In Depth Microsoft is bringing voice calls and large meetings to Lync Online and letting you make HD video calls from Lync to other systems.