Windows Vista is making good progress, according to Microsoft, and users are by and large satisfied with the company's latest operating system.
Microsoft today announced plans to track Australian delegates attending its annual Tech.Ed conference in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges.
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.
Microsoft researchers on Thursday demonstrated a new, low-cost method for manipulating a digital desktop or wall display with two hands.
The casual observer could be mistaken for thinking that Microsoft has a preoccupation with the name "Wave".
Can Google be a partner to mobile phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.
Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie have some big shoes to fill. The two execs talk to about how they plan to take over for Gates.
In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.
Newly hired Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton sees big changes coming in how you and your computer interact.
At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie describes a new plan for Internet security that includes the creation of a trusted stack. Each element can be authenticated, from the operating system to applications, people, and data.
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Intel has released software that lets computers read lips, a step forward that could lead to better voice recognition applications.
The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.
Rick Rashid envisions a future in which disk drive capacity of a terabyte is routine and user interfaces possess active intelligence.
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