Microsoft has completed its $1.2 billion purchase of FAST Search & Transfer and will install the company's CEO as head of a newly formed enterprise search group, it said Friday. FAST will become a subsidiary of Microsoft and its research team will...

As of August 31 of this year, Microsoft's "Plays for Sure" technology -- once codenamed Janus -- will no longer play for sure -- unless, that is, users play back the tunes on the same computers and OS forever. In a move that's come under concerted attack...

The ever-increasing intricacy of the World Wide Web is evidenced by the character and scope of the HTML 5 draft specification. Microsoft wants to hasten HTML 5’s arrival, but its proposed solution may not sit well with all parties. In a recent...

After weeks of speculation, the software vendor will give details of its software-plus-services initiative at the Web 2.0 conference. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie touched off more than a month of speculation, debate, hand-wringing and...

ASUS Eee PC 4G pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP is available immediately in selected Best Buy retail stores in the United States. The wide availability in Best Buy retail stores will provide a hands-on experience for potential users to explore this...

Microsoft's release manager for the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) posted on the Microsoft TechNet forum that the long awaited update for Windows XP is a go. Windows XP SP3 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 is on its way through...

The official GA release of Microsoft’s CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall...

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, began testing a subscription pricing model for its Office software that gives consumers upgrades to new versions over the Internet. The package includes word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation,...

Is Microsoft secretly trying to find a way to keep Windows XP alive? And what does that have to do with Asus' mega-popular? According to Australia's APC Magazine, which resides online at Microsoft's NineMSN.com, the Asus people have been busy, toiling...

Today at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2008 in San Jose, Microsoft Corp laid out the next phase in its strategy for the Windows Embedded Business, providing a strategic road map outlining the renaming of its family of products and plans for...

Windows is under the threat of collapsing under its own weight and must radically change for the sake of users, independent software vendors and Microsoft itself, according to research by Gartner. Microsoft Windows has become so large and and complex...

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's director of program management for Windows security, David Cross, said there would be an increased emphasis in Vista on whitelisting, a technique which allows only a specific list of programs to...

Microsoft plans to make a key Internet Explorer default change to thwart attackers trying to hack into its Web browser. The software maker will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8 when the browser is running on...