Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco is taking place today, where they are set to lift the curtain on Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’.

On the heels of Microsoft’s big tablet announcement earlier this week, Steve Ballmer sent out an optimistic internal memo to employees.

In the form of the Surface tablet, Microsoft has radically taken action against OEMs who have largely besmirched the reputation of their products.

Microsoft has released a video of its special event for the Surface tablet in Los Angeles that took place on Monday.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is set to acquire business and enterprise social networking company Yammer for $1 billion.

Microsoft has announced during a keynote at Computex that the company has sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7.

Recently, Microsoft has confirmed plans to open brick-and-mortar storefronts in Orlando, FL, Arlington, VA, Danbury, CT, and Overland Park, KS.

Notch unveiled in a tweet on Monday that Minecraft became the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade game of all time in under a month of availability.

In an event invite, Microsoft has announced that it will be providing a special glimpse at Windows Phone 8 during a summit in San Francisco.

At its E3 2012 keynote, Microsoft has announced Xbox Music, a new streaming service that is the successor to the Zune.

At E3, Microsoft announced SmartGlass, which brings a slew of functionality that bridges the gap between the infamous three screens.

At E3 2012, Microsoft proudly announced that the Xbox 360 is currently the top-selling console worldwide. They also announced a slew of new media partners who will be debuting content on the platform within the next 12 months.

Asus has unveiled two Windows 8 tablets; the ARM-based Tablet 600, and the Tablet 810, powered by Intel.

As part of the company’s efforts to dissolve the Windows Live branding, tweets sent from Windows Phone will now display as ‘via Microsoft’.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini thinks that Windows RT ARM tablets are vulnerable due to the limitations with the classic legacy desktop. From a sales point of view, he may be right.