There’s one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft‘s deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and licensing, that the company began opening up to the rest of the software industry following the U.S. antitrust case. “We set out to start opening doors and mending fences with a number of key industry partners,” Gutierrez [...]

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Top Vole Steve Ballmer was shelled by an egg-wielder when he spoke at Budapest’s Corvinus University on Monday. The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO had just started to speak when a man stood up and started shouting “Give back the money of the taxpayers!”. It was unclear if he was a representative of the local [...]

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Google’s top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft’s new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google’s potential ad deal with Yahoo. Google and Yahoo have been discussing a partnership under which Google would supply some text ads alongside Yahoo search results; both companies expressed satisfaction with a limited two-week test. However, [...]

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Why is Microsoft so concerned about Google? Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google’s search business (not including Adsense) will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history – Microsoft Windows. Both products are natural monopolies. Google’s share of the search market [...]

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Microsoft on Monday launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free Web-based program that allows users to explore galaxies, star systems, and distant planets. The program, which was developed by Microsoft’s research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey among others. The program is [...]

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Associated Press TOKYO — Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn’t pursuing other deals following its withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo Inc.  Separately, Mr. Gates was also upbeat on the troubled Vista operating system.  Speaking at a news conference here, Mr. Gates said the company put “a lot [...]

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You know what they say – never assume anything! At the outside Microsoft could be playing out some well thought out double-cross. If it’s not, then Microsoft could now be looking at other possible acquisitions. They have billions of unspent dollars, what are they going to do with them. Eric Lai of Computerworld suggests there [...]

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Microsoft has built a USB thumb drive for the police that scans computer hard drives.The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor can be used in police raids to map hard drives and decrypt passwords without shutting the computer down and losing evidence. The device was shown off at a three-day security conference for 350 law enforcement [...]

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Microsoft has begun distributing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as an automatic update, a move which will allow users who have not already downloaded the service pack to obtain it automatically. The service pack pledges improved performance and stability, along with a cumulative security update. A spokesman for Microsoft stated that the update was being [...]

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In spite of earlier implying in Milan yesterday that Microsoft would walk away from the Yahoo deal, later the same day, Microsoft, keeping its options open, leaked many of the names on the slate of directors it plans to file if instead it goes forward with a proxy fight. The list has 10 nominees and [...]

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