An anonymous reader writes "The Ministry of Defence says they are working on a range of offensive cyber weapons to increase the country's defensive capabilities. The armed forces minister, Nick Harvey, says, 'The consequences of a well planned, well executed ...

At the D9 conference today, Steve Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, gave the first look at ...

In an effort to avoid costly patent litigation, Microsoft has become the first company to sign up to a crowdsourcing service that seeks to ...

Windows 8 tablets will be tightly controlled by Microsoft, according to insiders speaking to Bloomberg. The company is pressuring chip manufacturers to partner with ...

eldavojohn writes "Last year Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit against eleven tech companies citing patent infringement on four of his patents. Groklaw has followed up with some interesting documents that reveal three out of the four have already been ...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has called the PROTECT IP Act "a threat to our economic future and to our international ...

Speaking on Wednesday at the opening of Microsoft's new Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group headquarters in Beijing, Microsoft CEO said that the company earned revenue ...

Windows Phone's Marketplace, currently accessed through the phone itself and the Zune desktop software, will gain a Web presence in the forthcoming Mango release. ...

Many users of the Skype messaging and VoIP service found themselves incommunicado today after the service went down for many users, with the outage ...

jbrodkin writes "I'd always wanted my own working copy of the elusive Windows 1.0, and after a few failed attempts I got one working in a virtual machine (I had to downgrade from the latest version of Windows Virtual PC ...

Avalon73 writes "I've been using Skype for Asterisk (Digium's native Skype client for their PBX software) since it was in beta 2 years ago. Today, I received an email from Digium stating that Skype (read: Microsoft) has decided to end ...

Speaking in Japan yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the next version of Windows would arrive next year. Calling the as-yet unreleased operating ...

After showing off many of the developer features at April's MIX event, today Microsoft for the first time showed off ...

Microsoft has sent badges to members of the press allowing entry into their E3 press event, and boy, are they laden with expectation. We ...

A series of issues has disrupted customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) over the past couple of weeks, with services returning ...

Pioneer Studios, an experimental group within Microsoft tasked with designing and incubating novel "consumer experiences,"

msmoriarty writes "Microsoft told a group of MVPs today at Tech-Ed that it plans to take Visual Basic 6 open source and will release the source code on CodePlex. A source at the event said that Microsoft is planning to ...

Not content with making bold claims about the performance and efficiency of future iterations of its Atom processor line, Intel used its investor relations ...

iOS developers are organizing a boycott of Apple's in-app purchasing APIs in the hopes that it will goad Apple into responding to the lawsuits ...

In the run-up to next week's official unveiling of Windows Phone "Mango," the forthcoming major upgrade to Microsoft's smartphone platform, more features have been ...

BogenDorpher writes "Microsoft released data today showcasing that Windows 7's malware infection rate has climbed by more than 30% during the second half of 2010, while the infection rate for Windows XP has dropped by more than 20%." ...

dcblogs writes "The US Department of Justice remedies supervision in the Microsoft antitrust case ends Thursday, closing the landmark case, which began in 1998. But the questions posed by trial federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's attempted remedy remain: Did tech ...

When the Wall Street Journal reported last night that Microsoft was going to buy Skype, the response was puzzlement. Though Skype has some value, ...

Approximately one trillion readers wrote in to tell us that there is a big rumor that Microsoft is buying Skype. This follows an earlier rumor that the suitor was Facebook. Unsurprisingly many people are already wondering what it would mean for ...

Microsoft showed off a number of new features planned for Windows Phone "Mango," the major update for the smartphone platform ...

Just days after reports that Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, comes a claim from the ...

Just two bulletins are being issued for Patch Tuesday this month, one each for Windows and Office, addressing one vulnerability in the operating system ...

An anonymous reader writes "15 years after Novell sold the software to Corel, a court has given Novell the right to sue Microsoft over WordPerfect, which had a 50 percent market share in the early '90s." ...

In an effort to drum up support for its smartphone platform among existing smartphone developers, Microsoft has released a raft of information to help ...

Even as the Windows Phone 7 copy-and-paste update codenamed "NoDo" is being rolled out, Microsoft has started shipping a security update for its smartphone ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an appearance today at RIM's BlackBerry World conference to announce a new partnership between Microsoft and RIM to bring ...

The hits keep on coming. Just as it looked like Microsoft had finally got to grips with the rollout of its copy-and-paste update, codenamed ...

Nearly a decade of government oversight of Microsoft's operations is set to end, after the Department of Justice, 17 states, and District of Colombia ...

Universal availability of the copy-and-paste update to Windows Phone 7, codenamed NoDo, is almost here, according to Microsoft's latest schedule update. The final unpatched ...

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