Microsoft News

To hear the story from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is selling copies of Windows 7 faster than the copies can be pressed.

Microsoft will use VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer Certificates, VeriSign Code Signing Certificates to safeguard cloud-based services and applications Nov 18, 2009 09:04 AM MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- -- November 17, 2009 -- VeriSign, Inc.

When people around the world try to explain the American system of entrepreneurship, they often point to venture capital.

A new development related to the government's investigation of possible insider trading at a major hedge fund has raised questions in the case and caught the attention of two key senators.

Microsoft's Windows Azure team chose Advanced Telemetry among its select case study group to demonstrate how industry-leading companies utilizing the technology are realizing a myriad of benefits around agility, efficiency, focus and simplicity.

According to a recent survey conducted by Microsoft Corp., the majority of entrepreneurs who started their business during the recession were employed.

Philanthropist and former software company executive Doug Burgum is the recipient of North Dakota`s highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award.

But cozy ties between spy agency and tech industry have some privacy advocates worried.

Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force.

Lakshmi Mittal is the second-richest of India's increasing number of billionaires.

Dell Inc. on Thursday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that fell 54% from a year ago as sales across all of its major business areas, adding fuel to analysts' reports that the PC giant is losing market share to its rivals.

Microsoft will pass out beta code Wednesday it hopes will define the next evolution of directories.

Google began lifting the veil on its planned Chrome operating system on Thursday, but it said that computers powered by the software would not be available for a year.

The SDKs and programming tools, which were developed by Ribbit and Microsoft Corp., give Microsoft's global community of 1,000,000+ developers easy access to Ribbit's cloud-based platform for programmable telephony.

Yahoo is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to improve its Internet search engine and lure back some of its dwindling audience.

After spending some time in private beta with the likes of services like Wordpress, Azure, which Microsoft describes as "software plus service," will go into general availability on Jan.

Microsoft also invited developers to test new beta versions of Microsoft Silverlight 4, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the online Microsoft Store indeed violates the GNU General Public License .

Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community.

Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today.