Andy Patrizio

Microsoft took a stab at an open source community for Windows developers this week with the launch of CodePlex at the Open Source Business Conference in

After years of talk about the importance of WinFS (Windows File Storage), including a number of sessions at the recent TechEd conference in Boston,

MessageLabs today launched version 2.0 of its Web Security Services, an e-mail/instant messaging/Web browsing security system that lives in the cloud of

Digg, the power-to-the-people Web site that allows Web trolls to decide which stories get top billing, is moving beyond its technology news roots to

Reporter's Notebook: It was ironic timing. Microsoft released a report on how splendid a job its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool had done at

Note to hardware vendors: If your Windows Vista drivers stink, you're liable to get voted off the island. Well, sorta. Microsoft  is putting its

For the third time this month, a security flaw has been found relating to Excel, an application not normally associated with viruses and bugs. However, in

The old saying 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' seems to be a very familiar one to Adobe Systems and Google, Microsoft's two biggest rivals these

Normally, a product is feature-complete by its second beta, but Sun Microsystems is still adding features to Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), due this

UPDATED: Perhaps it's convenient timing, or maybe he felt a bit braver now that Bill Gates is heading off to be a 21st century John D. Rockefeller.

McAfee has formally launched the beta test for Falcon, its all-in-one security platform designed to compete with Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare,

Things aren't going well for Microsoft on the litigation front. On Friday, a United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a patent