Microsoft suddenly boosted its share of the search market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Sept. 17 the day Microsoft goes to court to challenge fines regulators imposed on company for anti-competitive business practices.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Microsoft's partners got lauded last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 event in Denver.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2007
Tools vendor Infragistics today released NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2, its latest set of presentation components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
In just a couple of weeks, developers will be able to get their hands on the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's new cross-platform browser media plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- July 16, 2007
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
A blogger who sold stock picks to thousands of subscribers has been detained in northern China, as regulators try to reign in freelance operators amid a booming stock market.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
Microsoft has jumped with both feet into the software plus services end of the pool, announcing the unveiling at its Worldwide Partner Conference this week of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM.
- By Keith Ward
- July 12, 2007
Microsoft on Thursday released an add-on to the previously released CTP of Astoria, a nascent project based around the way data is consumed and exposed on the Web.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2007
The next version of Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft's home and small-business security product, has been released for a live public beta.
- By Keith Ward
- July 12, 2007
A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues."
- By The Associated Press
- July 12, 2007
Astadia, a business solutions consultant with expertise in software-as-a-service (SaaS), and Pervasive Software have formed a partnership. Under the deal, Astadia plans to use Pervasive's data integration technology for customers moving to Salsesforce.com's SaaS-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2007
A stolen computer storage device contained more than twice the number of taxpayers' identifications than had been previously reported, Gov. Ted Strickland said Wednesday, but he emphasized there is still no indication the data have been compromised.
- By The Associated Press
- July 12, 2007
Microsoft plans to sink more money into Forefront, its comprehensive suite of tools for desktop, server and remote security, and its security partners stand to benefit -- perhaps substantially.
- By Keith Ward
- July 11, 2007
Next year, Prometric will be sole company to deliver exam services officially for Microsoft.
- By Michael Domingo
- July 11, 2007
Since its debut, Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 has arguably established itself as Microsoft Corp.'s most secure Web browser to date. To be sure, Redmond has dutifully included IE 7.0 patches in its Internet Explorer patch roll-ups -- but at the very least, Microsoft's newest IE flavor hasn't fallen prey to any of the blockbuster exploits that have so bedeviled Internet Explorer in the past.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 11, 2007