Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft’s remaining mum on its plans for World Mobile Congress in Barcelona next month, but hints continue to drop that it’s planning something big. Will it be “Pink,” the rumored mobile handset that it’s said to have designed itself? Or a phone based on the Zune music player? Are they one in the same? Enterprise […]

Despite many challengers, Microsoft Office is still the dominant suite of productivity applications in most enterprises. So any news that the software giant is readying a new version of Office is a big deal. SmallBusinessComputing reports on what Microsoft’s CEO had to say recently about plans to bring out the next version of Office. There’s […]

Microsoft is still keeping the industry guessing as to what it will actually show and promise at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain next month. In the interim, however, Taiwan-based news site, DigiTimes, claims its sources at several of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) mobile hardware partners have provided it with inside information. The site […]

Microsoft confirmed Friday that it is doing some reshuffling within the ranks of the division that’s responsible for everything from Windows Phones to IPTV to Xbox 360. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has confirmed the departure of one senior executive and a reorganization of the products and technologies under his aegis. However, a company spokesperson declined to […]

Windows XP still has the largest base of Windows users overall, but despite its age and the emergence of Windows Vista in the interim, it took Windows 7 to chip away at its user base in earnest. Datamation takes a look at the latest Net Applications figures on how Windows XP is trending, as well […]

A security vulnerability birthed in the release of Windows NT continues to show up in 32-bit Microsoft Windows OSes since — including Windows 7, the most recent edition. After a Google staff member raised the alarm, Microsoft is taking action. eSecurity Planet takes a look at the security flaw and the threat it posed. Microsoft […]

After Google, Yahoo and other high-profile companies were victimized by coordinated attacks by Chinese hackers earlier this month, Microsoft Thursday delivered a relatively rare “out-of-band” patch to its Internet Explorer browser software. Microsoft shipped an out-of-band patch Thursday to fix a zero-day vulnerability of which the company hadn’t aware until it was used to hack […]

On Tuesday, Bill Gates began tweeting. A day later, he launched his own personal Web site. But what does the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as well as the richest person on earth have to say? Titled The Gates Notes, the site dwells on topics that Bill Gates, philanthropist, spends his time thinking […]

Of all the lawsuits to fly lately, Microsoft v. TiVo sure seems like an odd one. But there is a reason for it, an important product at the heart of the issue, and quite possibly, a third party involved. Datamation has the details. Microsoft sued TiVo on Tuesday, claiming the smaller company is violating two […]

Nobody’s sure what Windows Phone 7 will look like, or if it’s even really what’s next from Microsoft, which may be issuing another point release of Windows Phone 6, instead. “The Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain is still nearly a month away, but impatience has triggered a feeding frenzy of hope […]

Buzz continues to mount ahead of next month’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), with industry-watchers curious to see what Microsoft will do to respond to a broadening array of competitors. After all, it’s going head-to-head against perennial rivals like Nokia and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, along with more recent upstarts like Apple’s popular iPhone and the […]

Microsoft co-founder and chairman signed onto Twitter for the first time Tuesday, and immediately began racking up followers — just in the first few hours he had already accumulated more than 70,000 followers and appeared to be picking up as many as 1,000 new followers every few seconds. His Twitter address is @BillGates. But is […]