A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software they're developing can support documents compatible …
Microsoft, Linux join forces in software law debate
In an unusual twist, Microsoft and Linux have joined forces in a legal tussle. The companies jointly sent a letter …
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta in two months
Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then …
Microsoft, analysts tell companies to kill Vista plans
The Microsoft executive in charge of Windows urged some companies this week to dump Vista deployment plans and shift to …
Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform
Two days after shipping the second beta of its newest identity platform, Microsoft's internal IT department is rolling out the …
Microsoft outlines OCS virtualization support
Microsoft announced that it will support server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, its first statement on what portions …
Microsoft delivers mega PowerPoint patch
Microsoft Corp. patched a six-week-old critical vulnerability in PowerPoint using a single security update. That one update patched 14 separate …
Microsoft to offer goodies in free Hyper-V Server update
Ratcheting up the competition with virtualization market leader VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp. will include a number of advanced features in …
Microsoft’s identity cloud platform enters Beta 2
Microsoft released the Beta 2 of Geneva, its identity platform for the cloud, adding single sign-on capabilities across server applications …
Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practice
Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and …
Microsoft springs Windows 7 RC a day early
Microsoft Corp. last week launched its long-awaited Windows 7 Release Candidate to the public a day earlier than expected, posting …
Microsoft plans 10 fake ‘updates’ for Windows 7
Microsoft plans to test Windows 7's update mechanism by feeding users of the just-issued Release Candidate as many as 10 …
Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practice
Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and …
Microsoft to patch PowerPoint zero-day bug on Tuesday
Microsoft said it will deliver just one security update next week, a fix for PowerPoint that's probably the patch for …
Microsoft patches huge Windows 7 RC bug
Just days after it launched Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft has released a fix for a major flaw that …
IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007’s new ODF support
In the latest bout of sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft …
Microsoft lays off 3,000 employees
Microsoft Corp. today laid off 3,000 workers, the second wave of a major reduction the company announced in January. And …
Microsoft to forbid VoIP, rival stores at mobile market
Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB …
Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats
Microsoft Corp. today gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) …
Microsoft’s Windows 7 release candidate goes public
The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public. Microsoft will …