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Among Microsoft's trials and tribulations in the mergers and acquisitions space, a Microsoft official on Tuesday evening cited fear of dealing with the company as an obstacle Microsoft has had to overcome.
Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday.
Today was Microsoft's final Patch Tuesday of 2009. Microsoft released a total of six new security bulletins, the most urgent one affecting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer for which exploit code already exists.
Microsoft is moving its "Orchard" open-source content-management-system CMS project from its own CodePlex repository to the recently formed CodePlex Foundation on December 9. Orchard is the successor to Microsoft's first pass at developing an open-source CMS, which was known by the codename "Oxite." by Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft have finally added a dedicated academic edition for the next release of Office. Have they finally started listening to the student minority? by Zack Whittaker
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.
Column about IBM exec Steve Mills saying MySQL doesn't compete with Oracle products, while Microsoft waits in line to bash Oracle to the EU.
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.
Who's on first? Microsoft - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - Google - Monopolies and Oligopolies
Researchers break into BitLocker Microsoft dismissed recently-disclosed threats to its BitLocker disk-encryption technology as "relatively low risk," noting that attackers must not only have physical access to a targeted PC, but must manipulate the machine two separate times.
Vista problems not repeated with Windows 7 Microsoft's attempts to ensure better application compatibility for Windows 7 than its immediate predecessor, Windows Vista, had at launch appear to have borne fruit.
Microsoft Tuesday created a new division designed to brings its cloud and on-premises software development together and provide a consistent platform for corporate customers.
Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Internet Explorer, including three critical bugs in the company's newest browser, IE8.
ericatcw writes "Barnes & Noble, Sony and other e-book vendors may have the manufacturing muscle, but the brains directing the challenge against Amazon.com's Kindle eBook Reader is Adobe Systems. Like Microsoft, Adobe has built a formidable ecosystem of partners to whom it supplies software such as its encryption/DRM-creating Adobe Content Server. Adobe paints Amazon as being like Apple ...
Gov. Chet Culver says Iowa schools will get more than $60 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.
Stranger things have happened than this. I think. Microsoft has formed a new group within the Server & Tools Business: The Server & Cloud Division, or SCD. Is it me, or is there some redundancy in the name, seeing as how cloud services run on servers?
Column about how Apple and Steve Jobs operate like Bugs Bunny, while Microsoft bumbles along like Elmer Fudd. InformationWeek's RSS Feed is brought to you by NEC Ads by Pheedo
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.
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn has challenged Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Roxanne Conlin to prove her commitment to education by donating a substantial portion of her windfall from a settlement with Microsoft Corporation.
On the same day that Gov. Chris Gregoire released a budget proposal meant to "scare the bejesus" out of Olympia lawmakers, Jeff Reifman, former Microsoft employee and founder of Microsoft... Continue reading "Microsoft's Tax Dodge Goes Viral"
Microsoft released six software updates on Tuesday to fix at least a dozen security vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Server and Microsoft Office. More than half of the flaws earned a "critical" rating, meaning criminals could exploit them to break into vulnerable systems without any help from users. Separately, Adobe Systems Inc. issued critical security updates to its ...
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