Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads towards its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor.
Microsoft Australia has confirmed that it will be reducing its local headcount in accordance with its plan to cut 5000 jobs globally.
Microsoft has released Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 for download this morning.
Overnight Microsoft officially unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009.
Google's Australia and New Zealand general manager Karim Temsamani yesterday defended the business case for the search giant's Android mobile platform against comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last November.
We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
You've only got to hang around a datacentre for about 30 seconds before someone starts raving on about virtualisation. While the cost benefits of virtualisation are obvious, the management challenges often get swept under the carpet.
There are lots of fiddly little rules surrounding backup and disaster recovery, but some of them are, to be frank, blindingly obvious. At the top of my personal list would be this one: don't check your notebook PC as hold luggage when you get on a plane.
What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda? Or which way actually is it? Not to mention whether there will be any change left in the budget after the program's agenda has changed.
Why did Telstra recently shut down its Now We Are Talking website? The problem, according to Telstra chief executive David Thodey, was that "the other guy left it running" and everyone had got sore throats from talking too much.
With apologies to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, ZDNet.com.au's Ratbags team has put together its own interpretation of the Federal Government's internet filtering initiative.
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
It's a peaceful morning at the Sydney Googleplex. The sun is shining and birds are singing. But wait a second: why are all those people wearing Microsoft Bing T-shirts?
Natali Del Conte reports from New York, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces the launch of Windows 7, showing several new features along with a slew of new products that will run the OS.
Steve Ballmer talks about Google's apps, Apple's niche, Zune's potential, and what's up with that Courier tablet.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the downturn is going to have ripple effects throughout the tech economy.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opens the show with a look at the future of entertainment. He also previews the next Windows operating system, Windows 7.
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.
Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on November 30.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.
Many companies aren't buying Windows XP--or they're buying the licenses but not installing the software. Microsoft's marketing machine is looking to change that as the Service Pack 2 update rolls out.
Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.
Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.
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