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By Krista Siefken - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Published: February 11, 2012 11:00 AM Updated: February 11, 2012 12:03 PM Here's a good rule of thumb: if someone calls to let you know your computer has a virus and you should do exactly as the caller tells you, hang up.

Google is working on a home entertainment system that will utilize WiFi to stream music to speakers installed in a home, and will likely control Google TV and other home products, a new report revealed.

Recommendation: For cloud-based email, contacts, and calendar services, Microsoft has two big offerings: Hotmail and Office 365.

I tend to just upload my files to my Web Host and just give people a link, but yes, I agree with this study.

WEST Mercia Police is warning people about unsolicited phone calls from companies telling them their computer has a virus and they need to access the system to fix it.

Microsoft is rolling out Office University 2010 for students with a much harder form of verification in an attempt to fight off non-students from purchasing cheap versions of the productivity suite.

Microsoft has announced it will preview the consumer edition of Windows 8 in Spain as another step in preparing to release the new operating system.

This ain't your father's Windows. Though if you want to, you can still make that faster, sleeked-up new Windows look like the old one.

Microsoft is ready to lift the lid on Windows 8 at a preview event at the end of the month.

Software giant Microsoft has launched its annual DreamSpark Yatra to to share knowledge and spread awareness about innovations in technology that aims at targeting 60,000 students in 100 cities across the country.

Microsoft Corporation : Barclays raised Microsoft 2013 earnings estimates ahead of the Windows 8 launch later this year and Office 15 expected in Q1 2013.

Caroline Gabrfiel ReThink: Wireless February 10, 2012: Microsoft has responded to Google's promises to play fair with Motorola Mobility's patents, by taking its own 'nice guy' stance, leaving Apple looking like the bully.

Microsoft has shut down the pre-order deal for the Windows Phone-based 900, a company spokesman confirmed to CNET today.

Microsoft released Thursday a preview of nine security patches scheduled for release on Valentine's Day to fix almost two-dozen vulnerabilities, some critical, in Windows and other software.

Microsoft has given details of the first version of Windows to be tailored to ARM-based chips, revealing that the OS will have a number of restrictions for app developers.

What's actually worth noting, is that we've heard rumblings that Zune won't last past the consumer preview, and that it's services will be renamed sometime later this year, and Windows Phone will receive a dedicated companion application.

Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky just put up 8,000+ word blog post on Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 on the low-powered ARM processors that today run the iPad and most other tablets.

MSFT Sideways With Market Stocks are seesawing today on reports of Greece reaching a debt deal .

Apple's stock soared to new heights on Thursday, pushing the company's market capitalization to $456 billion, a number that is greater than the values of rivals Google and Microsoft combined.

Microsoft is joining forces with one of the country's leading publishers in a plan which aims to cut the cost to parents of school books.