Microsoft has never revealed what those patents are, except for when forced to in court. However, new documents posted on the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)’s website, reveal the full…
Microsoft has released updates for critical flaws in Word, Office, and Internet Explorer, along with firmware updates for its Surface 2 tablet line. Redmond said that the June edition of…
The news isn’t all bad for Apache and other web servers, because the data above measures all web sites. When the firm considers “active” web servers, Apache continues to reign…
Woolworths will begin rolling out 8000 Google Chrome OS devices to replace Microsoft Windows desktop computers — believed to be the largest such deployment in the world. The move is…
Microsoft has left Windows 7 exposed by only applying patches to its newest operating systems. Researchers found the gaps after they scanned 900 Windows libraries and uncovered a variety of…
China has stepped up its war on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system with a report in state-backed media that questions the security of the software.
Microsoft is planning to deliver seven bulletins next week in its scheduled monthly update. According to Microsoft, the critical bulletins will address a pair of remote code execution flaws and…
Microsoft is reportedly developing a tablet-optimized version of Office for Android devices, and it is scheduled to arrive before the Windows version.
For Microsoft’s Hotmail service (now called Outlook.com), just over half of emails to and from Google were encrypted. Outlook.com users can enable encryption but, unlike with Gmail, it’s not turned…
Under a recent overhaul to TAP – which until earlier this year went by the name of Shape the Future – Microsoft slashed the price of Windows to OEMs involved…
By the time open source began gaining notoriety in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Microsoft saw a threat to the way it sold software and services and went on…
When Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest (FTB) was sued by a patent troll called Lumen View last year, it vowed to fight back rather than pay up the $50,000 licensing fee…
Even after MS HQ marketing bod Brandon LeBlanc blogged that lower cost machines running on Windows-8.1-with-Bing will be spaffed at Computex, details on how this operating system variant differs from…
For proof of how radically Microsoft has evolved, especially in terms of its approach to its own software stack, look no further than the newly open sourced and cross-platform incarnation…
So far, most of the talk about Ubuntu convergence—Canonical’s effort to make Ubuntu Linux run on smartphones and tablets as well as traditional PCs—is about hardware compatibility. But what about…