With the debut Thursday of its Bing for iPad app, Microsoft has done more than introduce another search engine to Apple’s tablet, which already has search apps by Google and Yahoo available. It has, ...

Microsoft may be building touch-friendly features into Windows 8 to optimize the operating system for tablets, but that isn’t stopping the company from pushing out apps for other tablet platforms.

Microsoft knows the importance of the mobile audience, even when it means taking advantage of a competitor's mobile platform—in this case, Apple's. Since late 2009, iPhone users have been able to ...