Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises …
Google, Microsoft bicker over patents
Google and Microsoft continued a very public and heated exchange that sparked after Google’s top legal officer accused rival companies …
Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft has launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits, …
Tesco rings up eight year Microsoft contract
Tesco has signed an eight year contract with Microsoft, covering desktop and data centre software to support its offices, stores …
Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case
Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one …
Microsoft extends SUSE Linux partnership
Extending a partnership established in 2006, Microsoft has renewed a working agreement to resell SUSE Linux and help develop new …
Infusion wins Microsoft’s UAE partner award
Infusion won the 2011 Microsoft country partner of the year award for United Arab Emirates. Infusion was honoured among a …
Microsoft leaks image of social networking platform
The social networking world may be getting even more interesting. Microsoft confirmed that it accidentally leaked an image of its …
Microsoft pays customer $250,000 to use Office 365
The University of Nebraska is dumping Lotus Notes for Microsoft’s Office 365, and getting $250,000 from Microsoft to help make …
Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
It’s getting harder for VMware to argue that it’s the only game in town for big-time virtualisation projects. Sure, every …
Microsoft to retire Office XP, Vista SP1 next week
Microsoft will retire 2001’s Office XP and the first service pack for Windows Vista next week, according to the company’s …
Microsoft offers developers early access to Windows Phone
Microsoft began this week an early access program for developers to get the upcoming “Mango” release of Windows Phone. In …
Apple, Microsoft consortium outbids Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a …
Microsoft patents spy tech for Skype
A newly patented Microsoft technology called Legal Intercept that would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype …
BPOS users must wait for Office365 :Microsoft
Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 yesterday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the …
Microsoft consortium to trial TV spectrum for WiFi
Microsoft has got together with a range of technology and media companies, such as BT and the BBC, to trial …
Microsoft revamps retail and consumer focus
A new consumer focussed group is being created to enhance excitement across the portfolio An exciting moment at DCC 2011, …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
Microsoft launching Kinect enabled adverts
In their constant bid to try and earn more advertising dollars for Xbox Live, Microsoft is introducing Kinect-enabled advertisements. According …