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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and SAP will attend an EU hearing on Oracle Corp's plan to buy Sun Microsystems Inc that could help EU regulators decide whether to clear or block the deal, two people close to the matter said on Tuesday. Full Story »

Zero-day flaws that allowed for attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and 7, disclosed in late November, pick up critical patches in today's Patch Tuesday, as does Microsoft Office Project and Server 2008. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa - Gov. Chet Culver says Iowa schools will get more than $60 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. Full Story »

Hidden behind the Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft released two separate security advisories and one set of updates that were not mentioned in the advance notification. Full Story »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said. Full Story »

The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have finalized the details of their planned Internet search and advertising partnership. Full Story »

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google. Full Story »

Microsoft is ready to make a key concession to settle the European browser wars. In order to address the concerns of two rival browser makers, Microsoft will suggest a browser ballot that is randomly generated, rather than a ballot with products in fixed positions, a source told The New York Times. Full Story »

Microsoft has published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2009. According to the notice, Microsoft will release a total of six new security bulletins next Tuesday for the final Patch Tuesday of 2009. Full Story »

Microsoft's decision engine hit a wall Thursday. Bing.com suffered an outage lasting half an hour, during which some users were unable to get to the site while those who reached the site didn't receive any results from their queries. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing. Full Story »

The coming week will be a busy one for IT administrators. Microsoft plans to release six patches for December's Patch Tuesday -- three rated critical and three important. The patches will address 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. Full Story »

Microsoft's Bing site was offline Thursday night. Relatively speaking, the outage didn't last very long, but any outage is a bad outage when you are introducing new features and trying to win market share from a dominant competitor like Google. Full Story »

Microsoft joined hands with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom on Friday to unveil a new deal to sell netbooks at up to 90 percent off their retail price with a 3G mobile broadband contract. Full Story »

Microsoft has released a new beta of the map function inside its Bing "decision engine." After only a few minutes with the Bing Maps beta, just like Microsoft promises, I was able to make a decision: Enough already. Full Story »

After creating great distress in security circles, an issue with Microsoft Windows has proven relatively minor. The problem, labeled the Black Screen of Death, was initially thought to be widespread. Indeed, British security firm Prevx posted a series of blog items suggesting that several million computers using Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 could be compromised. The company said the problem often is associated with two Windows security patches, KB915597 and KB976098. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Reports of counterfeit software, much of it tainted with computer viruses, have doubled during the past two years, according to Microsoft. Full Story »