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Technology companies are awfully fond of comparing their work to poetry and art .

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

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

Did the Mayans know something we don't? After a patchy decade of desktop OS releases - " one not helped by the five year stretch between XP and Vista, or the release of interim operating systems such as 98SE and Me prior to shifting to the NT codebase - " Microsoft wants to get back on track with a three year release cycle for Windows.

Microsoft will be compliant with industry standards in Internet Explorer 9 such as HTML 5 , but Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division, decried the habit of vendors getting ahead of the process.

Earlier this week a statement from a senior National Security Agency sparked rumors that there might be a NSA backdoor in Windows 7, but these concerns were quickly addressed by Microsoft.

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.

Microsoft released Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to manufacturers on Monday.

A new feature in the Mozilla browser bars add-ons from dropping code into Firefox's own directory.

As expected , Microsoft began talking about Internet Explorer 9 in public yesterday at its PDC event in Los Angeles.

There are only 26 letters in the alphabet, but a lot more goes into making a quality keyboard then just the letters you type out.

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. kicked their battle for personal computing supremacy into a higher gear Thursday, with Microsoft touting sales of the latest version of its Windows operating system software as its Silicon Valley-based rival promoted a technology that in many ways stands in sharp contrast.

Microsoft has been hard at work in the background developing a cloud strategy that's populated with some concrete products and services.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking at a press conference in Tokyo earlier this month.

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is coming to PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC in 2010.

Computer systems with proper security and network controls should be able to withstand about 80 percent of known cyberattacks, according to a senior National Security Agency official.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

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Microsoft will talk about its plan for upcoming builds of Internet Explorer this week at the Professional Developers Conference -- though, it will not offer a preview of its next browser, according to CNET .

The beta of Microsoft's upcoming Office suite Microsoft Office 2010 has been finished and already been made available to MSDN and Technet subscribers.