Internet Explorer use dropped to 49.4 percent in October, according to Web analytics company StatCounter in a chart for this month.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
Microsoft will offer its consumer antimalware solution for Windows systems to small businesses on Thursday, Oct. 7 at no cost.
Microsoft plans to release its Dynamics SL 2011 enterprise resource planning solution in the second quarter of next year, the company announced on Tuesday.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went to Europe this week to help sell the Internet cloud, a key Microsoft business area.
Microsoft last week announced the availability of Windows Live Essentials 2011, a free consumer suite of applications designed to connect Windows users to the Internet cloud.
Microsoft today named new companies that have subscribed to its hosted Exchange/SharePoint services, as well as colleges and universities that shifted to its Live@edu services.
Microsoft has sued Motorola over its use of the Android mobile operating system in smartphones, alleging that patents held by Microsoft were violated.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer named three new company presidents and reorganized two of the company's business units.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2010
Microsoft gained some unlikely allies in an i4i software patent case that the company has been losing.
Microsoft will unveil a line Windows Phone 7-based smartphones on Oct. 11, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Once again, Hewlett-Packard Co. has turned to an outsider, naming Leo Apotheker as president and CEO and former Oracle President Ray Lane as non-executive chairman.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/30/2010
Microsoft today released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft this week rolled out a dashboard tool for customers around the globe using its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) hosted services.
Microsoft announced today that Office for Mac 2011 will be available from retail outlets on Oct. 26, 2010.
The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/28/2010
The Obama administration is poised to ask for new Internet regulations that could potentially open any and all electronic communication to scrutiny.
- By Michael Hardy
- 09/28/2010
Microsoft released an "important" patch to address an information disclosure security vulnerability associated with ASP.NET systems.
The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.