The company is aiming functions long held as the domain of consumers toward businesses. The catch: For now, many features will be available only for use with Windows XP. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft, whose strategy enemies call "the three E's" in a parody of the company's marketing mantra: Embrace a rival's technology, extend ...

Microsoft Teams is a comprehensive collaboration platform, and hence, Microsoft will shutter Kaizala, its messaging service for frontline workers, and transition users to Teams next year. Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp. will embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging (IM) tool now available through MSN readily available on a user’s desktop, the software giant ...

Messaging middleware for Windows NT from Microsoft. Code-named Falcon, and abbreviated MSMQ, it allows programs to send messages to other programs. It can be used to queue up transactions in a ...