Microsoft’s latest volley in its advertising war on Apple has proved more of a backfire — and now the company has officially acknowledged the misstep. Unfortunately, so is creating a…
Microsoft on Friday acknowledged it had rewritten four of its security updates issued just three days earlier after customers reported never-ending demands that they be installed, even though they had…
For the second time in two months, Microsoft has temporarily pulled a software update after users reported that it inadvertently disabled some Windows features.
Today Microsoft announced that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of…
Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database.
No sooner did Microsoft release the latest round of Black Tuesday patches, than screams of agony began sounding all over the Internet. At this point, I’ve seen verified problems with…
Overall this month, Microsoft issued 13 bulletins—4 for them critical—that cover 47 vulnerabilities found across Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint, Office and the Windows kernel. It is an exceptionally large number…
Microsoft said Monday that it would provide early access to the release version of Windows 8 today, via its MSDN and TechNet services, reversing a previously-held stance that had angered…
For sheer volume of bulletins – 14 – Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month will prove onerous, with one critically important set of patches aimed to fix flaws in all versions…
it seems the main reason for the deal is that, without more financial firepower, Nokia could never hope to compete. And with their strategic partnership deal set to expire in…
With Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s mobile business for $7.1bn, the Redmond software giant has finally become a phone and device maker. The deal gives Microsoft Nokia’s global handset engineering, manufacturing,…
It’s taken five years, but New Zealand’s parliament has finally passed its long-awaited patent reform, which among other things makes it clear that a bit of code isn’t enough to…
Windows app developers today took Microsoft to task for the company’s decision to withhold Windows 8.1 until mid-October.
Users want a real Start menu on Windows 8, and Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, is happy to oblige. It just announced that Lenovo PCs will come with the…
Historians looking back on 2013 might want to call it the Marissa Mayer Effect. Others, more accurately, could attribute Yahoo!’s web traffic leap ahead of Google in the US in…