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Gadget blog site Engadget.com said on Wednesday it had resolved a clash with Microsoft over a story it published about an upcoming Microsoft operating system release.
The software giant is striving for greater compatibility with its rivals to ensure it plays as central a role online as it does on the desktop
Microsoft has released a critical update for Windows Service Pack 2, designed to resolve an installation problem with a piece of adware -- but it maintains that the update isn't a patch.
A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft's competitive ambitions in Europe on Monday by siding with regulators in an antitrust case against the company.
The software giant has released its January batch of patches but has failed to fix an Internet Explorer 'phishing' vulnerability.
A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
In part two of 'Securing Microsoft', we learn how the company slowly became more intimate with the security community. Microsoft's slow shift to focus more on security came to a head with Vista, with more money spent in securing Vista than anybody has ever been invested into securing any piece of software before.
The dawning era of "end to end" security architectures is squeezing customers between the proprietary efforts of two dominant vendors.
Intel hardware dominates the PC market, but a new emphasis on software could help the chipmaker expand into other markets and foster greater innovation, even if the effort could rankle longtime allies like Microsoft.
The Eee is now faster, looks nicer, and has better battery life. It's also heavier and the keyboard is still too small, but we like it. A lot.
Wide-ranging trade shows like PC Expo serve as a good barometer of the industry and its direction. By that metric, it looks like we'll be ditching our desktop PCs and laptops in favour of wireless handheld computers and by this time next year there won't be a need for any other type of computer.
Apple's 64-bit OS rocks, with built-in features that Microsoft doesn't have, such as integrated desktop search and RSS.
Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
Almost by stealth, the Linux desktop is here -- and at last it knows how to make itself at home.
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