Microsoft Hits Out Over Google Engineer's Hacking Tips

A recent report reveals how British Police found out that private investigators operating on behalf of a newspaper had hacked into the email of former Prime Minister of UK Gordon Brown when he was the finance minister of the...

Microsoft's upcoming 'Patch Tuesday' security update will contain a security patch for the Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability that was publicly disclosed by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy.The Windows Help and...

A Windows XP vulnerability first reported by Google researcher Tavis Ormandy has been actively exploited by hackers to deliver malware.The flaw, which affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 when the HCP protocol is enabled,...

Windows 7 has been launched exactly 100 days ago on the 22nd of October 2009 and has quietly secured itself as the most successful version of Microsoft's Windows family ever. Not only was it the biggest pre-order of all times on...

Microsoft has cautioned its users about security vulnerability in IE6 that has already been exploited by cyber fraudsters and what appears to be Chinese hackers who managed to ruin Google's first few weeks of 2010. The...

Microsoft Corp. is prepping the first service pack, better known as “SP1”, for its new operating system, Windows 7, according to a report from a prominent Windows blogger. Rafael Rivera has quoted some registry codes...

With Microsoft cranking up its effort to reduce the use of pirated Windows operating systems in China, a group of Chinese software pirates have developed a new operating system called Ylmf OS which essentially is a customised...

Acer has showcased what it claims is the first netbook which comes with both Google's mobile platform, Android, and Microsoft's very own Windows 7, which is scheduled to be launched on the 22nd of October. In reality though, the...

Microsoft received a major relief in a patent violation case yesterday when a US federal judge overturned a jury ruling which had found it liable for infringing a patent held by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc Inc and had...

A survey carried out by desktop and server management specialist ScriptLogic amongst more than 1,000 companies found out that around 60 percent of them are not planning to adopt Windows 7 when it is launched. Microsoft's next...

It's been a few hours now since I've taken the plunge, downloaded and installed the release candidate version of Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system, Windows 7 on my main working computer. I have worked out five...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Non-Beta browser has been out for a few hours now and we have had the opportunity to test the beast and we have to say, we were impressed. (1) Internet Explorer 8 requires a PC restart That was...

Microsoft will make the next version of its browser, Internet Explorer 8, available as from 4PM this afternoon as the company finally embarks in its own long march. The newly released application will feature improved privacy...

Kyle Thornton, category manager for Business Notebook PCs at HP, has confirmed in an interview to US website Computerworld that the PC giant will be selling its mini netbook line with up to 3 different Windows 7 operating...

Microsoft's Chief Executive Office, Steve Ballmer, has announced that the beta version of the company's next flagship operating system, Windows 7, will be available as from tomorrow, Friday, for download (ed: although it is...