Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance
AP - 14 minutes agoMicrosoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
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Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
British security firm Prevx has conceded that Microsoft security patches were not the cause of a Windows issue labeled the Black Screen of Death.
Today, Microsoft may have given Firefox and Chrome a better shot at grabbing market share in Europe. A report's indicated that Microsoft will appease antitrust regulators - along with its competitors - by showing Windows users a randomized ballot screen for Web browsers. In the olden days (and even now, in a lot of markets), Microsoft would of course just pair Internet Explorer with new ...
Yesterday, BoomTown liveblogged a demo session that Microsoft held for reporters about some new features on its Bing search service, a glimpse at what Twitter and Facebook integration will look like and also the debut of a nifty new beta of its online map service.
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is close to resolving a standoff with European Union regulators on its Internet Explorer browser, after making last-minute refinements that would give European consumers more choice in their browser, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Microsoft seems determined to turn Lips into a bonafide franchise. Their newest entry in the series is Lips: Party Classics, featuring songs that "you love to sing even if the singing itself is so bad it's good." It'll feature 40 songs out of the box, including "Love Shack" and "Y.M.C.A." It joins Lips: Number One Hits, which was released earlier this year. In addition, Microsoft has launched ...
Read Scott Lowe's cost comparison between Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 and VMware's vSphere and then download the Excel spreadsheet version of his chart.
Microsoft released Wednesday a revamped version of Bing Maps with street views and other features already offered by rival Google's free online mapping service.
Last week, research firm Gartner released a PC sales forecast that initially sounded like good news for Microsoft and its hardware partners, but likely indicates trouble ahead.
Microsoft is taking aim at one of Google's most popular services, Google Maps, with a richer version of its own online mapping service that was released in beta on Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
Microsoft and Yahoo have signed off on their plan to team up against Google in Internet search.
Microsoft on Thursday released two more pieces of its Forefront suite as part of its strategy to merge security and identity technology and create software that stretches across clients, servers, and the network edge.
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 .
Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft and Yahoo have signed off on their plan to team up against Google in Internet search. The step announced Friday seals the terms of a preliminary agreement announced in late July.
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.
In what could be a blow to Bing's image, the main Microsoft search site goes down.
Computerworld - Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.
Patch Tuesday will address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer severe enough that Microsoft considered an out-of-band patch. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday also addresses a Windows Server 2008 flaw that could be disruptive and a Project 2000 problem.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. revised a planned antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators after browser makers complained the accord gave the company an unfair advantage, according to two people familiar with the case.