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182 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 15:28:56 by SlumDogMillions | 31 comments
While no operating system is perfect, Microsoft appears to have made significant security
improvements with the release of Windows 7.
389 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 13:51:52 by confuciussay | 97 comments
Microsoft has lost a second appeal in a case that will see it pay $240m (£160m) in damages to
software firm i4i.
309 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 21:14:49 by ubernoggin | 34 comments
No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. While each
successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that's never been
an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools.
180 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 07:28:44 by mobilebond | 27 comments
Microsoft on its part is not in talks. People feel the software giant has run away from this space
and is a big time failure. But wait a min. If you think, MS has actually left the space you are
wrong.
599 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 01:37:50 by esdfmatt | 177 comments
The Apple iPad's Oscar debut on millions of TVs may have been the talk of the town Monday morning,
but not for long. Rival PC maker HP has launched a sneak
428 votes | submitted 2010-03-06 21:00:01 by gankige | 114 comments
Whoa. During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft's Eric Rudder played
the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360.
Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous.
503 votes | submitted 2010-03-07 01:38:07 by geopiscean | 171 comments
Microsoft has made a small but vitally important step forward in improving the overall tone of the
online chat and gaming banter within its Xbox Live community.
345 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 22:58:37 by RobertWright | 28 comments
Google announced the acquisition of DocVerse, which allows for real-time online sharing and
simultaneous group editing of PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents.
719 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 19:07:46 by MrSoloDolo | 127 comments
It appears that Microsoft is as happy as anyone to see the death of IE6.
335 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 18:52:19 by Surferess | 74 comments
As of today, Microsoft has around 75% of its employees are working on cloud-related projects. "A
year from now that will be 90 percent," says CEO Steve Ballmer. According to its Wiki page Microsoft
currently has 93,000 employees... yikes.
248 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 12:38:23 by confuciussay | 145 comments
Small browser firms want changes made to Microsoft's browser choice screen to make their programs
more prominent.
136 votes | submitted 2010-03-04 16:01:03 by dchaid | 18 comments
After the Windows Phone 7 launch passed without so much as a mention of Project Pink, Microsoft's
other new phone project started to fade into memory. Today, we can confirm: Pink is coming, and
Verizon is onboard as a carrier.
235 votes | submitted 2010-03-04 13:22:43 by confuciussay | 43 comments
Microsoft releases its first mobile application for phones running the Android operating system from
rival Google.
615 votes | submitted 2010-03-03 20:36:37 by Lucas123 | 124 comments
Microsoft told Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its
reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet
Explorer.
322 votes | submitted 2010-03-03 13:01:37 by ironeus | 186 comments
The choice of browsers offered to millions of Microsoft users following an EU ruling is not as
varied as suggested, say web designers. The choice was offered to settle an anti-trust case the
European Commission brought against Microsoft. Some say almost half the browsers on offer are clones
of IE that only give people an illusion of choice.
355 votes | submitted 2010-02-27 23:44:04 by transylvanic | 82 comments
Microsoft's Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought
out LG's Windows Phone 7 Series early prototype!
208 votes | submitted 2010-02-27 01:57:31 by getsome2k | 40 comments
With Google’s unchecked domination of the Search business, it’s sometimes tough to remember that
there are viable alternatives out there. We have put together a list of ways Bing is actually better
than Google.