Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft …
Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A web apps showdown
The future may be the cloud, but it also may be Microsoft that ushers us into that realm of possibility …
Microsoft officially names Geneva project
Microsoft unveiled the names of the pieces that will make up its single sign-on platform that was formerly named Geneva. …
Microsoft opening mall-size Data Center near Chicago
Microsoft next week plans to flip the switch to open a 700,000-square-foot data center in Northlake, Ill., less than three …
Services firms boost Microsoft’s SaaS
Microsoft Corp.'s late move into the hosted software business gained some headway this month when two outsourcers — Computer Sciences …
Microsoft Bing booming; Yahoo appears in its sights
Reports released this week showed that Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search tool continues to gain ground in the search engine wars, …
Microsoft promises to stymie hackers next week with new patches
Microsoft said it would deliver six security updates coming Tuesday, including two for holes that hackers have been using for …
Microsoft admits it knew of critical IE bug in early ’08
Microsoft, last week, confirmed it has known about a bug behind widespread Internet Explorer (IE) attacks for more than a …
Google OS may force Microsoft to reinvent Windows
Google's Chrome OS won't be an immediate threat to Windows, but it may force Microsoft to reinvent its operating system …
Microsoft may have known about critical IE bug for months
The vulnerability that sent Microsoft scrambling and is being used by hackers now to attack Internet Explorer (IE) users may …
Microsoft confirms attacks against IE6, IE7
For the second time in six weeks, Microsoft confirmed that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in DirectX, this time …
Reports: Microsoft will sell Windows 7 ‘Family Pack’
Microsoft will offer a multi-license “family pack” for Windows 7, according to a pair of bloggers who cite details in …
Microsoft pulls projectile-vomiting IE8 ad from Web
An online ad for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) that showed a woman projectile vomiting has left such a bad taste …
Microsoft to push IE8 at businesses next month
Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to enterprises next month, the company announced this week. The decision to …
Could Cisco take on Microsoft with office app service?
There is only one obvious question in Cisco's overture Tuesday that it might take on Microsoft and Google in the …
Microsoft’s Bing takes a nibble out of Google’s search share
Up and running for a month, Microsoft's Bing has upped the company's share of the U.S. search market by 1%, …
First look: Microsoft Office 2010
Call it serendipity. As I was working through my review of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and SoftMaker Office 2008, an early version …
Microsoft: We’re not gouging Europe on Windows 7 pricing
A top Microsoft executive today denied reports that European users will pay more for Windows 7 because of the company's …
Microsoft to open two new data centers
After postponing the development of one data center and losing a couple of high-level managers in its data center group, …
Microsoft extends Dynamics service pack support
Microsoft Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) users now have more flexibility in deploying the vendor's …