Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath.  The company released its One-Step  Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath  Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server. 
                    
			            - By David  Kopf
- September 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information from two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A European think tank is recommending to the European Commission that computers sold abroad come without any operating system pre-loaded.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 21, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- September 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 19, 2007