Microsoft announced plans to purchase Great Plains Software for $1.1 bn. Great Plains is a developer of small to midsized business applications, including payroll, human resource, accounting, customer ...

Andy Westby remembers the first time he set foot in Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. - a corporate city within a city that housed tens of thousands of employees in numbered buildings sprawled ...

Nearly three decades ago, before the rise of Great Plains Software as a powerhouse, before the billion-dollar deal that brought Microsoft to Fargo, a 26-year-old Doug Burgum got a glimpse of the ...

The software giant makes a move that some considered inevitable and others considered a reversal of a longtime commitment not to compete with its software partners. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...