Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft has just not had any luck in its i4i patent infringement case, where it was found to have infringed on the patents of tiny i4i with recent versions of Microsoft Word. This week, Microsoft lost another round in court but it still has another chance. Datamation has all the wrangling. The panel of judges […]

Microsoft has its work cut out for it in its efforts to claw its way to a larger share of the smartphone market. Arrayed against it is a slew of competitors, including perennial heavyweight Research In Motion with its BlackBerry lineup, and more recently the Apple iPhone and Google’s Android OS. But Microsoft’s plan centers […]

Google’s ambitious designs on the mobile market are no secret. Its open source Android operating system has been cropping up in an increasing number of smartphones, which figures to drive usage of Google’s ad-based mobile services. But one of Google’s key partners, Motorola, has come forward with details of a deal with Microsoft to feature […]

It seemed like it would be a quiet aftermath to a light Patch Tuesday. But although Microsoft only included two patches in its monthly security update, the warning of a flaw in the Internet Explorer browser stole the show. That’s thanks to a security researcher who released a working model of how to exploit the […]

Bing may be the center of Microsoft’s attention these days but it has not abandoned MSN. In fact, it’s had a major redesign for several months if you knew where to look. Now that redesign is available for the general Internet population to use. Datamation has all the details. After previewing it for the past […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine reported a nice improvement in total search share in February, according to Web analytics firm comScore. And while Bing did increase its share from 11.3 percent in January to 11.5 percent last month, that growth rate was its slowest since September. Meanwhile, Yahoo continued its unfettered freefall, dropping from 17 percent […]

Some of the most significant pieces of today’s computing infrastructure grew out of projects born at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. So perhaps it’s only fitting that the Association for Computing Machinery selected one PARC’s founders as the latest winner of the Turing Prize, the most prestigious award in the field of computer science. Datamation […]

Microsoft has a tradition of releasing service packs, a combination of all the cumulative bug fixes plus a few new bells and whistles, about a year after an operating system is released. Windows 7, however, has proven a pretty solid product and hasn’t had a lot of fixes, and there has been talk of a […]

Making the transition from combat to civilian life isn’t easy. In an effort to help service members ease back into the work world, Microsoft is planning to donate $2 million in cash and up to $6 million in software to veterans and other eligible organizations. Datamation takes a look at Microsoft’s program to equip the […]

On the heels of a near-record month in February, Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday security update was comparatively mild. The company issued two patches to address flaws in Excel and Windows Movie Maker. But Microsoft also warned of a security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser, eSecurity Planet reports. Microsoft released two patches for eight security […]

What do you get when you combine the best features of a search engine, media player and gaming system? Why, Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system, according to Mindy Mount, the CFO of the company’s Entertainment and Devices division. Enterprise Mobile Today has the story on Mount’s pitch to investors about Windows Phone 7, which she […]

The devil’s in the details, they say. Microsoft made headlines when it announced that Office 2007 customers were eligible for a free upgrade to Office 2010. But there’s a catch. The 64-bit versions of the forthcoming Office suite won’t support many of the add-ins for the existing 32-bit versions. Datamation has the story about Microsoft’s […]