The Verge reports that Windows chief Julie Larson-Green has confirmed that Microsoft will release a developer release of Windows 8.1, codenamed Blue towards the end of June, which will be available during the company's Build Developer conference. Read More

Monday night's abrupt departure of Steve Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live, has dinged the company’s share price by about 3 percent and instigated petabytes of speculation. Read More