Microsoft's Windows Live services experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, leaving many users unable to get to their Hotmail inboxes.
Microsoft has come back down from the clouds and fleshed out the technical details of its online services strategy which will change the nature of its relationship with its customers.
Microsoft is exploring new ways to try and convert the remaining people who don't use its Office productivity suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Birmingham City Council is mulling an extension to its open-source software deployment, which was criticised last year for falling short of expectations.
Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London on Wednesday.
It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.
In light of the unpatched IE zero day, AusCERT has cautiously advised organisations to "consider" using an alternative browser; or even kill browsing altogether. For organisations with locked down computers, is it time to support two browsers?
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For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches.
Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
Behind the scenes at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, a small but determined group of IT specialists are working to use Web services to streamline the flow of many core business processes.
While Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users -- and that's ultimately good for the Internet.
If you haven't looked at Netscape in a while, version 8 is worth it for its added security and extra features.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
This is an impressive update to Microsoft's Small Business Server that packs a big punch. However, it may be overkill for a lot of companies and isn't quite as easy to manage as it first appears.
Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
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