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The article focuses on Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, utilizing a contentious paper from Microsoft researchers about the capabilities of GPT-4, an artificial intelligence system, as evidence, highlighting Musk's accusation that OpenAI reneged.

The article reports on the initiative of Microsoft Corp. and publisher of "The New York Times" in unveiling a software that would enable readers to download an electronic version of the newspaper and view it on a portable device in the U.S.

Reports the possible impact of an article from the college newspaper `The Daramouth,' dealing with the criticisms of an appeals court judge on Microsoft Corp. and its chairman Bill Gates, on a court trial involving the company.

Focuses on the antitrust trial against Microsoft Corp. Response of Microsoft executives to the challenges posed by the Internet; Details on the electronic mail message sent by Nathan P. Myhrvold, chief technology officer of the company, to senior executives; Information on the deposition testimonies of the witnesses.

Reports that on September 2, 1998, Microsoft Corp. was requested by the United States Government to hand over documents which are believed to show illegal behavior by the company. Microsoft's response to this request; Comments from Mark Murray, a Microsoft spokesman; Allegations of the lawsuit against the company by the US Justice Department and 20 states.

Comments on the rising number of developments in the Internet search engine business. Google's plan to index the contents of several university libraries and launching of beta versions of Google Scholar which focuses on academic papers; Search innovations by Microsoft; Study on unstructured information management architecture by IBM; Plan for call centers to use the IBM search approach.

Focuses on the report `National Policy on Microsoft: A Neutral Perspective,' written by Chris Hall, regarding the antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp. What the paper says about the United States government's evidence against the company; Focus of the paper; Windows-pricing issue.

Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way -- often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize. Less than three years ago, Dr. Wolfram created a new kind of search engine, called Wolfram Alpha. Unlike Google or Microsoft's Bing, Wolfram Alpha does not forage the Web. It culls its own painstakingly curated database to find answers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A decade ago Bill Gates, founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, presented a new class of computing to the world: a tablet PC that offered a fully functional computer with the ''intuitive aspects of pencil and paper.'' Since then, Microsoft has struggled to gain traction with a slate-like device, yet each year the company announces new products, software or operating systems that try to promote a world of Windows-based slate computers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SOMEWHERE at Microsoft, there is a closet packed with leftover Slate umbrellas -- a monument to the folly of asking people to pay for what they read on the Internet. These umbrellas -- a $20 value! -- were the premium we offered to people who would pay $19 for a year's subscription to Slate, the Microsoft-owned online magazine (later purchased by The Washington Post). We were quite self-righteous about the alleged principle that ''content'' should not be free. The word itself was an insult -- as if we were just making Jell-O salad in order to sell Tupperware. The experiment lasted about a year. Still, every so often the dream of getting people to pay recurs. It's recurring now because of the newspaper crisis: they have been hemorrhaging subscribers and advertisers for their paper editions, even as they give away their contents online. In the current Time, its former managing editor, Walter Isaacson, urges a solution: ''micropayments.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world. The men were sentenced by a court in the city of Shenzhen to terms of 18 months to six and a half years in prison, according to court papers released late Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Andy Padre, a 40-year-old artist, once went through 35,000 staples in one week, creating massive lilies out of foam and wire that would hang, suspended, over a table at a wedding at the Waldorf-Astoria. While he was working a day job at Microsoft, he once spent several hours every day for a week neatly wrapping every object in his supervisor's office in green tissue paper to surprise her upon her return from vacation. But it wasn't until he stumbled on an exhibit of children's art made from MetroCards that the naturally obsessive Mr. Padre found his breakout medium: the shiny yellow rectangle that's come to symbolize the new New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Supreme Court handed Microsoft a defeat on Monday by refusing to rule on its request to halt an antitrust suit against it. The suit was brought in 2004 by Novell, based in Waltham, Mass., which said in court papers that Microsoft had ''deliberately targeted and destroyed'' its WordPerfect and QuattroPro programs to protect its Windows operating system monopoly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses Microsoft Corp.'s use of humor in an advertising campaign for its Office XP online-help software. Humorous criticisms in the ads about software agent Clippy, an anthropomorphic paper clip which offers advice to users; The dislike which many users have for Clippy, because of the agent's poor timing in offering help.

Reports that Microsoft Corp. is fighting the United States government's efforts to obtain the detailed plans for Windows software and to interview William H. Gates, the company's chairman, about the federal antitrust case. What the company contended about the plans in papers filed on August 4, 1998 in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia; Number of states along with the US Justice Department that are suing Microsoft.

Reports on Microsoft Corp.'s plan to publish its World Wide Web political and cultural magazine, Slate, on paper. Features of the magazine; Mixed reviews on the magazine for its use of Internet technologies; Concerns on promotion and distribution.

Discusses the United States Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation, where papers filed on May 18, 1998 alledged that Microsoft was planning to block the success of Sun Microsystems Incorporated's Java programming language. Why Microsoft's plans are pertinent to the department's case; Effects of Sun's Java programming language on Microsoft's Windows operating system. INSET: The microsoft case.

Opinion. Comments on the United States Justice Department's case regarding Microsoft Corporation's Internet Explorer. What Microsoft contended about the Internet Explorer in court papers filed on December 23, 1997; Reason for the lawsuit against Microsoft; What the case prohibits Microsoft from doing; Detailed information on the case against Microsoft.

Focuses on Microsoft Corporation's July 1998 filing of its first court papers in defense of the United States Government's antitrust lawsuit against the company. Allegations that were made against the company by the US Justice Department; Denials that were part of the company's formal response to the lawsuit; Details on the preparation of both sides for the trial.