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Worldwide, the greatest threat remained attacks via fake security software. More than 13 million such attacks were blocked by computers with the help of Microsoft software in the first half of 2009. Nonetheless, a year ago, that figure was 16.8 million.
Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie.
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system.
Microsoft looks to rise to the challenge issued by Mozilla, Google, Opera, and others...
Stuart McKee of Microsoft spoke to the participants about Microsoft-based technologies, including Voice over Internet Protocol and instant messaging, and whether those forms of communication could be captured for the purposes of maintaining public records.
"Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds - or at least something fairly frequent - of Internet Explorers. Ars talks to Microsoft's general manager for Internet Explorer, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. We don't think that's a great idea."
Microsoft is planning on helping developers adopt cloud-computing technologies successfully through education Visit website for full story...
Starting this weekend and in the days ahead, Microsoft will offer free Xbox Live Gold services to Silver members on the weekends, giving them a chance to try out recently-launched features. New social networking features like Twitter and Facebook just launched on Xbox Live on November 17, and Silver members will be able to try them in addition to the online multiplayer normally only available to ...
With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft showed Wednesday it's trying to retake the browser initiative.
You know what? Let Apple have its annoying Justin Long and nerdy John Hodgman for those Mac versus PC commercials. Microsoft just upped the celebrity stakes by announcing that teen rockers... Continue reading "OMG! Jonas Brothers to Endorse Microsoft Xbox360!"
Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting put CEO Steve Ballmer in the hot seat answering questions about marketshare the company is losing to Apple. Mr. Ballmer was quick to point out that his company still controls the majority of the OS market, but that every percentage point counts -- even the points that belong to Apple.
Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn't mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organization to spy on us...right? In a response to...
VDI can safe big dollars! Or can it? Scott Lowe discussed one often overlooked nasty aspect of VDI - the Microsoft-imposed VECD license that can ruin any chance of ROI and strangles the mobility-enhancing beauty of VDI.
Microsoft is touting advances due in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, answering the challenge of Firefox and Chrome. Sadly, IE9 doesn't look very competitive.
With Google Inc. working on its upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system, the company is intensifying its grudge match with rival Microsoft Corp.
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that...
Here's all you need to know to get and try out the Office 2010 Beta, released last week.
LOS ANGELES - All this week at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft has talked about cloud computing, what many consider the next frontier.
A controversy has been brewing in law firms as more documents find their way into Microsoft SharePoint's SQL Server: Is SharePoint a viable replacement for a DMS? Mark Gerow, of Fenwick & West, discusses the case for moving documents out of SQL Server using an "External Blob Store."
Microsoft Corp., holding its first so-called say-on-pay vote, said Thursday that shareholders voted to indicate support for the company’s compensation policies.
Capping off one of the most difficult fiscal years in its history, Microsoft held its annual shareholders meeting with the backdrop of an economy that has at least stopped getting worse.
