For a brief time on Friday, it looked as if developers were going to be able to get their hands on a test version of the first Vista service pack, which is due for final release next year.
Microsoft has turned to spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt in the open-source market because it cannot win against open source on price, according to Linus Torvalds.
Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.
The battle to control the virtualisation market has heated up with the launch of a white paper from VMware, which accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive practices.
Security vendors are claiming Microsoft was deliberately withholding access to its Vista spyware product, but the software giant denied the charge.
The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.
For the second time in as many weeks a group of security professionals has released a third-party fix for a Windows flaw that is actively being used in cyberattacks.
2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.
Microsoft has corrected a mistake in its anti-spyware product that flagged some Symantec security tools as malicious software.
The future of information technology gets a face-lift from Microsoft's Center for Information Work.
Much of the buzz over Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.2 has focused on desktop computers, but the company also has a new server operating system that's been refined for businesses.
Apple Computer has pulled back from a plan that would have made Mac OS X the primary operating system on all new Macs starting in January.
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The software giant talks up plans for embedded devices ranging from factory robots to slot machines.
Microsoft on Friday quietly released a new Macintosh version of its Windows Media Player software.
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