Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was surprised that Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo's plan to hand over its Internet search …
With Microsoft deal, Yahoo tosses in the search towel
When Yahoo Inc. agreed to team up with Microsoft Corp. to better take on search giant Google Inc., some analysts …
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers
Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No …
Bing was tipping point in Microsoft-Yahoo deal
The successful launch of Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, was likely the event that tipped the scales in favor of …
Microsoft opens mobile app store to developers
Microsoft Corp. officially opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store to software developers yesterday as the giant software maker …
Adobe confirms Flash contains Microsoft dev code bug
Adobe stepped forward to acknowledge that it's the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft's flawed development code in …
Microsoft/Yahoo: Far from serious Google threat
As the tech world awaits an announcement from Yahoo and Microsoft on their web search and advertising partnership, I'm wondering …
Microsoft, Yahoo alliance would target Google
About a year after Microsoft Corp.'s hostile, contentious and unsuccessful bid to buy Yahoo Inc., the two companies appear set …
Researchers clam up about Microsoft’s rush patches
Microsoft Corp. has dropped a cone of silence over several security researchers who have recently divulged details of the vulnerabilities …
Microsoft rushes to fix IE kill-bit bypass attack
Microsoft has been forced to issue emergency patches for its Windows operating system after researchers discovered a way to bypass …
Nortel and Microsoft ICA offerings announced
Coming on the heels of five new commercial offerings introduced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference for the Nortel and …
Microsoft ties Dynamics CRM to Twitter
Microsoft has integrated its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with Twitter, in just the latest move by an enterprise …
Microsoft wraps up Windows 7
As anticipated, Microsoft Corp. late last week announced that it had finished work on Windows 7, declaring that its next-generation …
Update: Microsoft revenue declines 17% in fiscal Q4
Microsoft revenue declined 17% and net income declined 29% year over year in the company's fiscal 2009 fourth quarter due …
Microsoft to rush out emergency IE patch
Microsoft is taking the unusual step of rushing out two emergency security patches ahead of its regularly scheduled updates on …
Microsoft admits it can’t stop Office file format hacks
Microsoft's plan to “sandbox” Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admission that the company …
Microsoft, Intel design Windows 7 to be speedy
Collaboration with Microsoft could allow the software giant's upcoming Windows 7 OS to take advantage of multithreaded and multicore Intel …
Microsoft finalizes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 code
Microsoft finalized the code for its Windows 7 client OS and Windows Server 2008 R2, sending both products to manufacturing …
Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft’s Linux efforts
While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge …
‘Microsoft uses GPLv2 for plug-in linking collaboration tools’
Microsoft continued its GPLv2 theme for the week, announcing a plug-in that integrates its Live@edu collaboration tools with the open …