Microsoft names and shames dodgy dealers

Windows maker Microsoft Corp. went on to patch its antivirus software on Friday that was incorrectly targeting Google’s Chrome Web browser, the company announced. The antivirus program in question, the company’s own...

Microsoft has revealed that the company is indeed building an app store for its Windows 8 operating system for both tablets and personal computers. Microsoft has used the same term popularised by Apple’s App Store to refer...

Software maker Microsoft has revealed that the company is indeed building an app store for its Windows 8 operating system for both tablets and personal computers.Microsoft has used the same term popularised by Apple’s App...

The number of smartphones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2010 reached 101 million for the first time ever, a near 90-percent improvement year on year, according to market researcher IDC. Figures published last month showed...

The next cycle of the computing industry looks to be creaking into life as the 20-year old partnership between Windows and Intel starts to show cracks, single-handedly caused by UK-based ARM. We are now moving from the era of...

Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is now installed on 20 per cent of personal computers worldwide, new stats released by Net Applications reveal.As of December 2010, Windows 7, the more popular and successful successor of...

Dr Henry Edward Roberts, the creator of the world's first working PC and a mentor to the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, died at the age of 68, succumbing to acute pneumonia, in Georgia, US. Mr. Roberts, who is...

There hasn't been any proper review of Microsoft's relabelled Windows Mobile 7 platform, more like previews and commentaries about the heavily rehauled Windows Phone 7 platform. It does represent Microsoft's most potent and...

In what comes across as a major surprise for industry watchers, software giant computer giant Microsoft has started to sell personal computers through its revamped online store.   The move by Microsoft to start selling...

Microsoft Windows Vista is designed to dramatically improve the computing experience of every kind of PC user - from people at home who use their PCs for simple web browsing, to business people who must organize and act on large...

VAR security consultancy Global Secure Systems (GSS) is urged companies - of all sizes - to check their regulatory requirements on data storage before starting to prepare for the official launch of Windows Server...

Windows Live OneCare is the all-in-one PC security and performance service designed specifically for Windows XP and Windows Vista-based operating systems.It helps keep your PC's internal workings in order and protect it from...

"Microsoft today filed with the Court of First Instance an application to annul the Commission decision of February 27," a Microsoft spokesman told reporters on Friday. "We are filing this appeal in a constructive...

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing...

Today's decision by an EU court to uphold a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft is likely to influence other cases in the software industry. A competition lawyer said he expects the principles of the case to be...