Windows 8 is on the horizon but with a few months before it goes on sale, Microsoft has several large challenges it needs to address to ensure that Windows 8 will be well received rather than avoided. More...

Microsoft has announced the individual Imagine Cup challenges for 2012. This years competition will include challenges for both Windows Phone and the Windows Azure platforms. More...

Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge the cash cow... More...

Adobe has joined a growing list of firms offering web-based alternatives to conventional office programs. The software developer has acquired the online word processor Buzzword, which allows users to create and share text documents on... More...

Following the failure of an immigration bill that would have expanded the number of foreign high-tech workers that could have come to the U.S. under so-called H1-B visas, Microsoft has decided to open a development... More...

Microsoft Corp. is disputing lawyer fees for the plaintiffs in class action suits against the software company in Iowa and Wisconsin. In both cases the parties agreed to a settlement that included the plaintiff's attorney... More...

Creating MMORPG title World of Warcraft has been "a Herculean type of effort", according to Blizzard VP Paul Sams and creative director Chris Metzen, speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "These kinds... More...

A federal judge has set a December date for a patent suit challenging "AutoPlay" technology included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. Judge Jeffrey White of U.S. District Court for the Northern... More...

Analysts are commenting on what is currently being a hit in usage for department stores, aubway stations, and even fast food restaurants world wide. However companies in the US still seem to be waiting for... More...

France to Microsoft: Best price wins. Give us a better deal or we go open source. France's cash-strapped government is giving alternative software firms the chance to win state business from Microsoft... More...

As Congress intensifies its scrutiny of the special subpoenas that the recording industry is using to track down and sue people who share music over the Internet, a federal appeals court panel questioned today whether... More...

As both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expect to add new platforms for their processors, Taiwanese motherboard makers expect to face a greater challenge in providing relevant products, sources said. According to... More...

Good old sun... "Sun has announced plans for a new bundle of software to create a business collaboration platform to compete with Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Domino platforms. The Sun platform will be... More...

A California woman is suing Microsoft, Symantec and some software retailers, claiming the companies "concocted a scheme" to mislead consumers by requiring them to consent to software licensing agreements they haven't read. The suit, filed... More...

THE PEOPLE'S DAILY reports that China has built its first server chip which uses a localised form of Linux, and which it dubs the "Dragon Chip". The CPU was built and developed by the Computer... More...

Thus - the alternative telco group that owns the Demon ISP - is looking to challenge plans to introduce changes to Nominet's 'whois' Web site ownership directory. It claims that Nominet's decision to publish the... More...

IBM has recently introduced a new major release of DB2 - version 8. There are a host of new features in the product and we can only cover the headline items here, but it is... More...