New York -- The Microsoft adCenter team just back from the holiday rolled out a bundle of new enhancements options to sort and filter your data.

These enhancements include: First up is custom date ranges.

The news custom date ranges feature empowers you to customize your campaign performance grids for easy viewing of performance data for campaigns, ad groups, ads, or keywords for custom time periods that you specify, without having to run reports.

“Date ranges for up to 31 consecutive days within the last two years can be utilized, or you can use the existing adCenter preset date ranges if they work for you,” explains Mel Carson at the adCenter blog.

Redmond, Washington -- Early this year, Microsoft introduced the public beta version of Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses. Now, the Redmond Vole is planning to unleash the cloud-based version of its popular Office 365 productivity suite on June 28, the company confirmed Friday.

Las Vegas-- Trouncing out over rivals Yahoo and Google, Microsoft Corp., the third most-visited Internet search portal, has forged a five-year alliance with Verizon Wireless to be the default Internet search services provider for cell phones, in addition to managing mobile advertising services, which certainly appears to be seen as a blow to rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg, addressing a Citigroup conference, said on Wednesday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would officially present the deal later in the day at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He gave no further details, reported Reuters.

The agreement succeeds more than a year of speculation on whom would become the default mobile search provider for Verizon Wireless, which is set to surpass AT&T Inc as the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier after it closes its purchase of smaller operator Alltel later this week.

Redmond, Washington -- Software monopolist Microsoft today unveiled an improved version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps search engine, rendering the view with more continuity when users move up or down a road, thus earning some credit for at least taking a different approach than Google's Street View.

New York-- Witnessing a steeply declining economy, a layoff is not a surprise. But a layoff of 15,000 people and that too from Microsoft, is surely surprising. Unconfirmed vague rumors of huge Microsoft layoffs have gathered momentum with one site making specific claims. The latest to stake the claim on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the number of job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft’s worldwide operations.

That is the latest buzz about potential Microsoft layoffs. While rumors have been swirling of job losses for several weeks, there has not been a great deal of detail to the gossip. Earlier reports only described that as many as 10% could get the axe, and that Wall Street would see that as “healthy,” according to Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Brad Reback.

Redmond, Washington -- A week after rumors started swirling that Google and Facebook are vying to get Skype, the Redmond Vole has walked in and scooped away the real-time communications company for a cool $8.5 billion in an all-cash deal. This could be the most expensive call Microsoft Corp. has ever made!

Redmond, Washington-- As always its mapping, search, and location Cloud applications are concerned, Microsoft is winding up 2008 with nothing short of a bang. The Virtual Earth Blog announced that not only did the Redmond company have taken the Holiday celebration to a whole new memorable level by putting up Santa Claus’ North Pole village in Virtual Earth and letting users to track his journey around the world in 3D, but is also delivering a massive 48 terabytes (TB) data and images update for some locations on Virtual Earth.

Microsoft usually seems loyal to multi-TB updates for Virtual Earth, and the latest refresh makes no exception to this rule, with approximately 50 terabytes of new content.

Redmond, Washington -- Well, this is what it takes to convince somebody to upgrade a PC these days? Microsoft is adopting a novel approach to selling its Windows 7 operating system by opening stores in people's homes, the company's new campaign is meant to persuade consumers to give up their older Windows PCs in favor of the latest versions running Windows 7.