You have to give Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, a lot of credit. Since the launch last month, it has done a terrific job of winning over a growing number of people with some savvy public relation efforts. The latest is the launch of result...

Many people have expressed their annoyance over their experience of Windows installing updates on its own even when the option not to do it has been checked. Microsoft has acknowledged that these things do happen and that the company is now looking into ...

On 23rd June, Microsoft unveiled their new free security tool, Microsoft Security Essential (codenamed: Morro). The beta download was capped to 75000 and was restricted to USA and China, however, the beta is already available through file sharing networks...

I post some of these links as Tweets. However, a blog gives you a bit more space to explain why these posts/articles are worth a read. The first is an article from Harvard Business Review about innovations at Microsoft Research India. Technology for Emer...

I post some of these links as Tweets. However, a blog gives you a bit more space to explain why these posts/articles are worth a read. The first is an article from Harvard Business Review about innovations at Microsoft Research India. Technology for Emer...

I just saw a blog post from Bill Sempf describing a book he’d written for Microsoft to help them explain licensing for Windows Server 2008.  At first, I read right past a key metric, but I doubled back and read it again — the book is 86 pages...

Microsoft released a Security Advisory last month for a vulnerability in DirectX on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. At the time there were reports of limited targeted attacks with this “0-day”. Symantec has recently received reports indicating tha...

... to do with fitting in, and it does with functionality. How important is our hair? Do a search for 'hair' in Bing.com (Microsoft's new search engine) and you'll be loaded with 249 million pages ... search for 'shoes' and you'll...

By this time next year I want to get my Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) from Microsoft. My target technologies are: •MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Applications •MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Forms Appl...

Here are some of the useful keyboard shortcuts for the next big thing from Microsoft: Win+Home: Clear all but the active window Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window Wi...

...he world by the computing tail. In someways it has been a very long road forward to this point with a lot of ups and downs for Microsoft customers. Microsoft has made a great number of questionable decsions along that road; some of which got them in troub...

God, will you look at these Microsoft TV adverts from the last ten thousand years. Some of them are so painful, I can't watch them all the way through. (tags: microsoft tv advertising pc windows) ...

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As the New York Times detailed yesterday the Chinese government is activating legislation that may give problems to the possible Microsoft Yahoo purchase. The new Chinese law would "give Chinese regulators authority to examine foreign mergers when the...

...e encountered difficulties distinguishing one window from the other,when more than one instance of the same program is open. Microsoft became aware of this draw-back after releasing the XP operating system and subsequently released a "Power Toy&quo...

Cassini, Microsoft's source-available Web server platform written entirely in C#, is a viable alternative to IIS. It supports ASP.NET and other basic functions such as directory browsing, and is compliant with HTTP 1.1 and also demonstrates the power ...

Microsoft Word has a little feature called 'Track changes', which allows for collaborating with colleagues on documents. When enabled it will keep a running history of changes made to a document, kind of like a built-in version control. Add to t...