4906 Stories, most recent news story added 20 minutes ago
Microsoft will make changes demanded by rivals to how it will allow consumers in Europe to choose a competing Web browser in its Windows software.
According to the Microsoft Security Response Center , Microsoft will issue six Security Bulletins on Tuesday, and it will host a webcast to address customer questions about the bulletins the following day (December 9 at 11:00am PST, if you're interested). Three of the vulnerabilities are rated "Critical," and the other three are marked as "Important." All of the Critical vulnerabilities earned ...
Microsoft joined Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan to promote a new 3G service plan with Windows 7 netbooks.
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.
Microsoft said it will deliver six security updates on Tuesday, including one that will patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) the company admitted only last week.
Six updates to fix critical flaws in Windows, IE, Office Microsoft today said it will deliver six security updates on Tuesday, including one that will patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) the company admitted only last week.
Reports of counterfeit software, much of it tainted with computer viruses, have doubled during the past two years, according to Microsoft.
Ad hoc wireless networking is possible, says blogger Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in Windows 7 Starter, the edition installed on most netbooks, but it did not actually disable the ad hoc wireless feature, as the firm's marketing materials claim, a noted Windows blogger said.
Microsoft has agreed to make some final changes to its web browser ballot system to accommodate requests, a tip indicated Friday. Following pressure on the European Commission from Google, Mozilla and Opera, the company has said it will randomize the order of the browser choices to provide an even playing field and will blank out the "Windows Internet Explorer" text in the title bar to avoid ...
Microsoft has decided to offer up some competition to the likes of Steam, Direct2Drive, and GamersGate by introducing its own digital game distribution service called Games on Demand for Windows. The name is a mouthful and it will only support Live-enabled games, but is Microsoft’s bid to start earning money from the lucrative PC games digital [...]
Microsoft Thursday released two more pieces of its Forefront suite that is core to its strategy to merge security and identity technology with software that stretch across clients, servers and the network edge
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 said.
For about 40 minutes starting at approximately 9:30 pm EST Thursday evening, by Betanews estimates, the main page of Microsoft's Bing Web site was inaccessible to users. In its place was a message filled with hexadecimal code, leading off with the message, "This isn't the page you wanted!"
Microsoft's Bing.com search engine is facing a mini PR crisis after going down for 45 minutes last night starting at 7:10 PST. Microsoft used its Twitter account and blog to keep Bing visitors and fans informed: From Twitter : we're aware and looking into it...stay tuned ^az about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck back up now ^az about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck Details to come once we have ...
Everybody pisses on Internet Explorer, and nowhere more so than in Europe, where antitrust issues have dogged Microsoft for years. Two years back, the European Commission forced the compan... Continue reading "Microsoft Trails Firefox in Critical Slovakian Browser Market!"
In what could be a blow to Bing's image, the main Microsoft search site goes down.
Microsoft has sold the Folio and NXT businesses it got when it bought Fast Search and Transfer, the Norwegian enterprise search firm, last year to Rocket Software on undisclosed terms. Folio is a clutch of publishing tools and NXT publishes intranet documents. Fast bought the products a few years ago for $15 million. Fast’s native technology has gone into SharePoint and is still available ...
Baltimore, Maryland – December 3, 2009 – The League of Women Voters of the United States selected AVF Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, to implement Serenic Navigator , a nonprofit accounting solution built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV . The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization founded in 1920 that encourages informed and active participation in government.
Guitar Hero. DJ Hero. Drum Hero. It seems like there’s a simulation of pretty much every instrument out there, cramming the word “Hero” at the end. Something Hero is the zeitgeist indeed. Yet, somehow, when Microsoft patents the term Ribbon Hero, it all stops sounding cool and starts sounding… well… clueless. Over at istartedsomething, Long [...]
Next Tuesday, December 8, Microsoft will release 6 security bulletins and software updates to address the vulnerabilities described in them. Three of the bulletins have a maximum rating of critical and three are rated important.
You thought the whole browser ballot thing in Windows was behind us, right? That everybody was finally happy, so that we could continue doing what an overwhelming number of people have already done without a ballot screen - that is, install non-IE browsers? Not exactly. Opera, Mozilla, and Google still had complaints, which Microsoft addressed, making everybody happy.
Open slideshowAFP/Getty Images/File
Open slideshowAFP/File
Open slideshowBing
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowTwitter
