Stuart J. Johnston

A large percentage of U.S. mobile phone users are waiting for the roll-out next week of Apple's iPhone, but according to a new mini-survey conducted for

Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows Vista's desktop search capability in the wake of antitrust accusations by Google made public last week.

Microsoft officials said they are shipping today, as planned, major new versions of two of the company's Dynamics business management packages. The two

As the business of designing, building, and distributing PCs becomes increasingly globalized, U.S. PC vendors have exported less valuable work offshore,

Desktop search capabilities built into Windows Vista makes it extremely difficult for users to run Google's  desktop search instead, and that has

Bill Gates spoke to Harvard alumni and newly minted graduates on Thursday during the day's commencement activities at his old alma mater with his usual

In a move intended to enable competing identity management technologies to interoperate, a new forum will hold a key meeting in San Francisco on June 26

Microsoft  today introduced the next release of its Office Live Meeting 2007 Web conferencing software, a product the company hopes will compete with

Microsoft's  annual TechEd Conference is usually a place for the company to outline its latest vision of the IT world of the future. But this

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that Microsoft can argue that it is the rightful owner of a patent lying at the center of an

A report released today ranking the top 100 online retailers for customer satisfaction finds that the customer's experience with a retailer's Web site is

Microsoft  chairman and soon-to-retire chief visionary Bill Gates has been touting alternative forms of computer-human interaction for years, such as