Bloomberg reports that Microsoft Corp. has appointed Amy Hood as its first female CFO, putting a 10-year veteran in command of debt, finances and expenditures. Hood, 41, becomes CFO effective immediately, succeeding Peter Klein, Redmond, Microsoft said in a statement. . Read More

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

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft Corp. said that it has sold 100 million licenses for its latest Windows 8 OS, and that it will release an update before the year-end holiday shopping season. Tami Reller, CFO of Microsoft’s Windows division, said that the number of Windows 8 sales since the software’s debut in October is in the “general ballpark” with the previous version during a similar period. 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