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CWmike writes "Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google Inc.'s demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, saying 'From what was shared, it appears to be in the early stages of development,' a Microsoft spokeswoman said. 'From our perspective, however, our customers are already voicing their approval of the way Windows 7 just works — across the Web and on the desktop, and on all ...
Windows only: Fishbowl, the Facebook client demoed at Microsoft's introduction to Silverlight 4, is now available for download—and it adds quite a few new desktop features to the Facebook...
Right around last week's release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , Microsoft issued a wave of Xbox Live bans, with some reports saying they totaled between 600,000 to as many as 1 million modified consoles. While the extent of the bans was certainly immense (a glance at Craigslist following the culling proved that conclusively enough), Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten denies the number ...
Analysis: Microsoft's newest Windows wasn't zooming off the shelves when one user tried to peddle an extra copy.
Every time Microsoft, developer of the most popular personal-computer operating systems on the planet, comes up with a new version of Windows, computer users wrestle with the question of whether they should upgrade.
Sathya Prabhakar, 27, of Marlton, is a computer whiz who plans on being as rich as Microsoft's Bill Gates one day.
NCAA restrictions prohibit our normal Twitter LiveBlog coverage, but the game can be watched via a live Web stream from CBS College Sports and NCAA-TV. To watch the live Web stream, go to http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=154032. You might need to install the Microsoft Silverlight plugin.
It's somewhat hard to believe that we're already talking about Windows 8 given that Windows 7 just hit the shelves two months ago, but you know the engineers at Microsoft are already planning ahead. According to a roadmap constructed over at Microsoft Kitchen -- based around whispers heard through the grapevine on the eventual release of the next Windows Server -- the next iteration of Windows ...
While several nice things have been written about Microsoft's new Bing search engine, including by his NYT colleague David Pogue, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof does not agree. In a scat... Continue reading "New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing"
The television industry has known for years that video games are a threat to viewership, but a new pilot program might finally give some insight into exactly how big that threat is. The Nielsen Company is teaming up with Microsoft to study the reach of in-game advertising in the second season of 1 vs. 100 [...]
Financial analysts and search engine marketing industry execs see financial benefit in prospect of a Microsoft-Ask.com deal.
Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down : Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and embedded applications. That project, called "MinWin," has now started to bear fruit ...
Here's all you need to know to get and try out the Office 2010 Beta, released last week.
boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for ...
Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the "streaming" technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year.
Extensions to .Net are featured on DevLabs site
A top story from this week. Todays roundup of the top pop news stories
Microsoft issued only six patches for November's Patch Tuesday, but three of them are rated critical. The MS09-065 patch fixes a Windows kernel bug, which allows web surfers to be infected.
Even as planning for Windows 7 upgrades proceeds, Microsoft says PCs running Windows Vista were less susceptible to malware infections than with Windows XP. Microsoft also said PCs with the latest service pack were the most protected and browsers continue to be vulnerable, especially Internet Explorer 6. Windows 7 security could be expensive.
Security firm Sophos says Windows 7 is far from secure and highly vulnerable to the latest viruses. Microsoft insists Windows 7 builds on features in Windows Vista, "the most secure Windows operating system ever released."
The first zero-day exploit in Windows 7 has been reported by security researcher Laurent Gaffié, who questioned if Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle process exists. The Windows 7 exploit appears to take advantage of a bug in the Server Message Block protocol for file sharing.
