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Regular news about the Windows Operating System and other developments at Microsoft.
Microsoft
10 February 2012
Microsoft has pledged not to block rival companies' products if they infringe any patents that Microsoft owns which are deemed "essential" to an industry standard.
Microsoft
06 December 2011
Microsoft researchers have discovered that the tools they developed to detect spammers' efforts to avoid anti-spam filters are also capable of spotting mutations in the HIV virus.
Microsoft
24 August 2011
Microsoft joins Linux to create virtualization and cloud solutions.
Microsoft
12 August 2011
There were some surprising findings in an online poll carried out by Computer Weekly last week about cloud-based applications.
Microsoft
20 July 2011
Microsoft upped the ante on Monday in its months-long battle against the Rustock botnet by posting a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hackers who controlled the malware.
Microsoft
20 July 2011
Microsoft isn't exactly dumping Windows for Linux, but it has become one of the busiest contributors to the Linux kernel.
Microsoft
15 July 2011
American and Canadian courts have approved the sale of thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks to a partnership of leading companies including Microsoft and Apple for about $4.5 billion.
Microsoft
10 June 2011
The U.S Supreme Court has ruled that Microsoft is liable for $290 million damages for patent infringement for technology used in building its Word software.
Microsoft
07 June 2011
At the D9 Conference, Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named "Windows 8," for the first time.
Microsoft
18 May 2011
Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, has said he advocated the company's takeover of Skype, and urged other board members to support the move.
Microsoft
17 May 2011
Microsoft has incorporated more Facebook data into its Bing search results, increasing the competition around social search with Google, whose level of access to Facebook data is not as deep.
Microsoft
13 May 2011
Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice expires today.
Microsoft
11 May 2011
Microsoft today fixed a critical hole in Windows and two less serious holes in Office in one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent history.
Microsoft
10 May 2011
Microsoft is in talks to buy internet phone service Skype, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Microsoft
06 May 2011
Microsoft today said it will patch a critical bug in its Windows server software and two other vulnerabilities in PowerPoint, the presentation maker bundled with Office.
Microsoft
13 April 2011
Microsoft has patched a record 64 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and five other software packages, many of which allowed attackers to remotely install malware on end user machines.
Microsoft
13 April 2011
Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification.
Microsoft
12 April 2011
Microsoft has bitterly hit back at the search engine giant over a key US government contract, by claiming that Google is misleading the government agencies by issuing false claims over the security features in its Google Apps for Government offering.
Microsoft
08 April 2011
Microsoft today said it will patch a record 64 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Windows graphics framework and other software next week, and tie a December 2010 record for the number of security updates it issues.
Microsoft
06 April 2011
The software industry can do a lot better to improve the security of applications, according to Microsoft's latest Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Progress Report.
Microsoft
06 April 2011
Cloud computing is transforming the manufacturing industry value chain as manufacturers begin to realise the benefits of cloud based computing, Microsoft has claimed.