Microsoft Corp. unveiled its Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system today on what are being called “Windows phones” that focus on …
EMC and Microsoft renew deal
Storage giant EMC and its similarly big partner, Microsoft renewed their deal last week to bolster product innovation and interoperability …
Microsoft announces $250,000 Conficker worm bounty
The spreading Conficker/Downadup worm is now viewed as such a significant threat that it's inspired the formation of a posse …
Nvidia collaborates with Microsoft to make premium, low-cost PCs
In an effort to deliver an outstanding computing experience on small, low power PCs, Nvidia announces that Nvidia ION has …
Microsoft lashes out at Adobe over Silverlight comments
Microsoft is crying foul over recent comments made by an Adobe executive that Silverlight has “fizzled” as a competitor to …
Lawsuit targets Microsoft over Vista-to-XP downgrades
A California woman has sued Microsoft Corp. over the $59.25 fee she was charged to “downgrade” Windows Vista on a …
Microsoft plugs critical Exchange, IE holes
Microsoft Corp. today patched eight vulnerabilities — three of them marked “critical” — in Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange and SQL …
Microsoft shuts off Windows 7 beta downloads
As promised more than two weeks ago, Microsoft blocked new downloads of the Windows 7 preview Tuesday. The site where …
Mozilla to join EU suit against Microsoft
The European Commission has granted Mozilla, the open-source collaboration behind the Firefox Web browser, the right to join the antitrust …
Microsoft to upgrade SharePoint
Microsoft said that it plans to formally integrate enterprise search technology from its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Fast Search and …
Four security updates due from Microsoft
Microsoft plans to patch critical flaws in its Internet Explorer and Microsoft Exchange Server software this week. In total, the …
Microsoft reveals ‘My Phone’ backup, sync service
Just hours after Microsoft Corp. accidently launched, then yanked, a Web site promoting its new “My Phone” backup and sync …
Microsoft enhances office communication with better voice
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has …
Virtualization brings EMC and Microsoft closer
EMC and Microsoft have extended a partnership that focuses on interoperability of products related to virtualization, security and content management, …
Microsoft may go open source with Danger
Bloggers are abuzz about the possibility since one claims he received a query from a recruiter looking for a NetBSD …
Microsoft adds time-sensitivity in its support service
Microsoft for the first time has said it will pay a financial penalty if it doesn't reach its service-level goals …
Microsoft’s IE loses more share, slides to new low
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month …
Microsoft charges ex-employee with spying
Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software company …
Double-Take software offers GeoCluster for Microsoft Hyper-V
GeoCluster is a software-based replication solution designed to integrate seamlessly with failover clustering, removing the requirement for shared storage and …
Microsoft pulls PerformancePoint Server after just 15 months
Microsoft said that it was folding its business process management (BPM) software, PerformancePoint Server, into its popular SharePoint Server product. …