Stuart J. Johnston

The Black Hatters have done it again. Research presented at the annual security conference has exposed a critical zero-day flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft took the research to heart, and is now warning its users to take steps to protect themselves. eSecurity Planet takes a look at the extent and severity of the […]

Microsoft confirmed that long-time Windows stalwart, Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows platform strategy, is leaving effective before the end of February. Nash, who has been at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for 19 years, spent much of his time at the company shepherding various versions of Windows out into the marketplace, and was a driving […]

Microsoft’s development routine is well-documented: when a product is near-ready to ship, it enters the Release Candidate stage. That means it is feature-complete and ready to ship. All they are doing now is looking for bugs serious enough to warrant not shipping the product. Office 2010 has hit that stage. Datamation explains what that means. […]

Frustrated with the U.K.’s continued support of an old and insecure Web browser, a Scottish Web designer has taken to the Internet to curry support for an upgrade. The online petition calling for government migration to Internet Explorer 7 or — better still — version 8, has already garnered more than 4,000 signatures. Datamation has […]

Where else could you find a knock-down, drag out fight for market share among software products given away for free except in the browser market? It’s like 1999 never ended, except now Microsoft has to deal with three contenders: Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. So how are they doing? Datamation finds out. According to the latest […]

If you’re going to ask people to beta test your software and help find bugs, the least you can do is make it a freebie. But now that Microsoft has finished development of its Azure cloud service, it’s time to start charging for use. CodeGuru explains what happens next. The first ones are free. After […]

First there was Microsoft “Surface,” a multi-touch, multi-user tabletop computer that’s controlled by users’ hands. Now, there’s “Pictionaire,” a collaboration between researchers from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and from the University of California at Berkeley, that aims to take that touch metaphor even further. However, Microsoft does not plan on incorporating the experimental technology into an […]

One of the knocks on Windows Vista was it was tough on laptop battery life. Windows 7, with its numerous efficiencies and improvement, was supposed to fix that. By and large, people feel it has, but there are now growing reports that in fact Windows 7 is draining batteries in record time. Small Business Computing […]

Microsoft on Thursday reported $19.02 billion in revenue for its second quarter of fiscal 2010, breaking previous records and surging 14 percent ahead of the same quarter last year. In a statement, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said that for the quarter ending Dec. 31, net income came in at $6.66 billion, with earnings per share (EPS) […]

Microsoft hasn’t said yet when it plans to release the first service pack (SP) for Windows 7, but more pieces of what are likely to be bundled into that release seem to be surfacing. That momentum picked up speed on Monday evening when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released several non-security patches for Windows 7 and its […]

Looking for a new or better job? Maybe you should delete those old pictures from your Facebook page first. You remember, from that long-ago spring break that show you dressed in a lamp shade and little else. A new Microsoft-funded survey of 2,500 recruiting professionals and consumers in four major developed nations found that online […]

Microsoft may deliver a tardy but welcome holiday present when the company reports revenues and earnings for its second quarter of fiscal 2010 on Thursday. A consensus survey of financial analysts by Thomson Financial found the average figures they believe Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will report will be earnings per share (EPS) of $0.59 for the […]