Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software able to remotely monitor a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Microsoft is developing free anti-virus software to compete with subscription services from Symantec and McAfee, Reuters reports. The program, codenamed Morro, will be released in beta “soon” and will likely have similar features to other companies’ entry-level products that cost about $40 a year. picked by bingo 6 months ago

Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends & relatives connect during times of crisis. Apparently inspired by Hurricane Katrina.

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Microsoft looks forward to enter health care market. One of its goals is a search engine that will provide useful medical information. This is why the company decided to buy Medstory Inc., the developer of Web-search technology that searches information on health. Microsoft did not disclose any details on Medstory acquisition. picked by Green84 3 years ago

Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days. But what do some of its toughest testers think? picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company. picked by psycmoe 1 year ago

A great listing with URLs to some of the best free software and open source software that you can download. picked by riger99 2 years ago

More than three decades after launching Microsoft, Gates this week sets his sights on philanthropy full-time picked by eyanna7 1 year ago

This prediction was made by Philippe Courtot, chief executive of Qualys - a company which offers security as a service to corporations. His prediction is based on the fact that just a few days ago, Google unveiled its Web Security for Enterprises, a service which provides companies with protection against viruses, spyware, and malicious Web sites. picked by cristeaiulian 2 years ago

Not before time but it's still too expensive! picked by topofall 2 years ago

Once more about antivirus product AVZ which I use time to time to check my computer for viruses and trojans. I recommended this antivirus product to all my friends. picked by Jon77 3 years ago

Once again the software giant, Microsoft, entered into a dispute with the European Commission over patents. This time Eu threatens Microsoft with a 3 million Euros a day fee. picked by maxriter 3 years ago

And rightly so... picked by mrnelson 3 years ago

i (delete i, capital i) I lolled. picked by muppet 1 year ago

XBox Live had some issues over the holidays with the massive influx of new users. Some people could not access the service and so they are now sueing Microsoft for damages.

Wait...A game server is down and you're damaged? I guess they had nothing else to do if they can't play online. For God's sake...read a friggin' book!!!

BTW..They plan on giving a free acrade game to everyone. picked by Fizz71 2 years ago

Microsoft is having WGA server problems and people with Vista are losing features (like Aero) because the installation is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Probably not a good idea to reboot right now! picked by bunmaster 2 years ago

In Steve McConnell’s book Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, he defines “classic mistakes” as mistakes that have been made so often, by so many people, that the consequences of making these mistakes should be predictable and the mistakes should be avoidable. These 10 mistakes are reported to be most damaging. picked by theclansman 9 months ago

Microsoft said today that company officials have not seen the report but question its validity.

Follow-up: picked by punthe 2 years ago

Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., a person familiar with the situation said. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago