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Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law complaint with the European Commission (EC) against Motorola Mobility and Google. We have taken this step because Motorola...

Posted by Brendon Lynch Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Accountability has been a globally recognized principle of privacy and data protection for more than three decades. But in the past few years, an important effort has been under way to clearly delineate what accountability—and the related...

Posted by Dan Reed Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy Group, Microsoft All of us have experienced the “spectrum crunch” when using our wireless devices. Dropped voice calls and slow data transfers are symptoms. The crunch is a consequence of both rising demand and spectrum management...

Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards Group & Antitrust Group, Microsoft Earlier today, Microsoft posted a statement concerning our commitment to industry standards. The statement sets forth Microsoft’s long-standing approach to patents that...

Posted by Ronald Zink Chief Operating Officer, European Union Affairs, Microsoft A big question for governments and business at the moment, and indeed for users of the Internet all over the world, is how personal data – a person’s identity, personal materials, financial or sensitive information...

Posted by Brendon Lynch Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Privacy is a top priority for many users of cloud computing, so Microsoft today is releasing a white paper that details many of the specific data protection policies, procedures and tools that have been integrated into Office 365, our newest...

Posted by David Finn Associate General Counsel, Worldwide Anti-Piracy & Anti-Counterfeiting, Microsoft In addition to undermining the security of businesses around the world, pirated software robs businesses of the ability to compete. That is why we wanted to demonstrate the financial impact software...

Posted by Brad Smith Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) today announced that 39 attorneys general, representing both parties and from states across the nation including Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan...

Posted by Dan Bross Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft Yesterday, I was pleased to participate in The Conference Board’s 2011 Symposium on Political Spending to discuss the principles and policies that guide Microsoft when we make political contributions. We recognize that...

Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President of Government Affairs, Microsoft Microsoft PAC (MSPAC) welcomed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to our Redmond, Wash. campus today. Since its founding in 1998, our employee political action committee has invited political leaders, policymakers, popular...

Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President of Government Affairs, Microsoft The passage this week of the bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the U.S. and South Korea, Colombia and Panama puts America one step further on the path towards economic growth and propels the U.S. back into the international...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had the following statement in the wake of Congressional passage of the Colombia, South Korea and Panama Free Trade Agreements: "Microsoft applauds today’s passage of the bilateral U.S.-South Korea, U.S-Panama and U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreements. We see these...

Posted by Jacqueline Beauchere Director, Trustworthy Computing Communications, Microsoft October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the U.S. and around the world. This year's official launch is taking place in Ypsilanti, Michigan to coincide with the Michigan Cyber Summit 2011 ...

Posted by Paul Garnett Director, Technology Policy, Microsoft Summertime often conjures up memories of days spent at the beach – waves crashing, sand castles, beach balls, surfing, swimming and ice cream. For the vast majority of Americans, that time is spent at a public beach – places...

Posted by Dan Reed Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy Strategy & Extreme Computing Group, Microsoft Imagine a five-lane freeway at rush hour. Except on this freeway, four of the lanes are assigned to specific purposes and can only be used by a certain class of vehicles. Some of the assigned...

Posted by David Finn Associate General Counsel, Worldwide Anti-piracy & Anti-counterfeiting, Microsoft The past year has been a milestone for Microsoft’s global anti-piracy team in many ways. We launched global education campaigns that arm consumers with information to protect themselves...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 – the PROTECT IP Act. We support...

Posted by Richard Boscovich Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit What if one out of every four cups of coffee you purchased turned out to be an empty cup? You’d quickly switch to another coffee shop and you’d have some very negative reviews of the coffee seller who shorted you...

Posted by David Howard Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development: the United States Department of Justice had rejected Google’s claim that Google...

Posted by Brad Smith Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law. We thought it important to...

Posted by Horacio Gutierrez Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel As you may have seen, Microsoft today filed legal actions against Barnes & Noble, Inc., Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., and Inventec Corporation in both the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District...

Posted by John Seethoff Vice President and Deputy General Counsel I recently sat down for an interview with C-Suite Insight magazine, one of the leading publications for board members and corporate governance professionals, to talk about the foundations of Microsoft’s approach to corporate governance...

Posted by David Finn Associate General Counsel, Worldwide Anti-piracy and Anti-counterfeiting, Microsoft Software counterfeiting and piracy is a global problem that no single entity solves alone. From countries trying to spark their economies to businesses trying to protect their assets to consumers...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today joined a number of U.S. and Chinese business leaders for a meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. At the meeting, Ballmer highlighted the importance of intellectual property, or IP, to the future success and economic...

Posted by David Howard Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel – Litigation From time to time, it’s what’s behind the headlines that counts the most. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling on a long-running patent case between Microsoft...