Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft is expanding its in-car software system, which combines things like music, GPS and hands-free cell phone all in one, with voice activation. The next partner to adopt the service is Korea’s Kia Motors. But the system won’t be called “Sync” like it is in Ford cards. Datamation has the details. Automating in-car entertainment, information, […]

As Microsoft moves to retrench its decade-long investment in Windows Phone — formerly named Windows Mobile — the company appears to be preparing to tie Xbox Live gaming into its mobile handset play. At least, so go the rumors that erupted after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted a recruitment ad looking for a program manager to […]

eSecurityPlanet reports on Microsoft’s response to claims its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server, is threatened by a zero-day hole. Microsoft officials say that a hacker who claims to have found a critical zero-day hole in an older version of Internet Information Services (IIS), the company’s Web server, is wrong. “We’ve completed our investigation into […]

While Microsoft likes to project confidence that it will always win lawsuits against it, the software giant often likes to backstop itself just in case — and it apparently did so in the i4i case. Tuesday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) lost its appeal of a patent infringement lawsuit that it originally lost in a lower court […]

Hardly anyone had ever heard of tiny i4i when it filed a lawsuit against Microsoft earlier this year. But as

After four-and-a-half years shaping the finances of the world’s largest software firm, Chris Liddell is taking on a new challenge. A big one. Datamation has the story of Liddell’s new gig at General Motors. Maybe the job market isn’t as moribund as all the news reports say — especially if you’re a CFO with a […]

Microsoft’s Visual Studio and .NET Framework are two of its most critical offerings for developers. With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 each now in beta, signs were pointing to a March launch. But that may no longer be the case. CodeGuru has the story. A senior Microsoft executive has announced that quality issues […]

A small technology firm sued Microsoft this week over the software giant’s choice of name for its new search engine. The smaller firm, Bing! Information Design, claims in its lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in St. Louis, that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing search engine violates its trademark on the use of the word ‘Bing.’ Bing! Information […]

Datamation reports that there’s probably at least one more chapter to go in the code theft case between Microsoft and Plurk, producer of a Chinese Twitter competitor, even though Microsoft apologized and removed the offending code. Not good enough. Earlier this week, Microsoft pulled its Chinese Twitter competitor and apologized after being notified that the […]

Advanced image recognition is at the heart of a new initiative by Microsoft and researchers at Dartmouth to help identify and remove child-exploitation pictures online. eSecurity Planet has the story. A team of computer scientists from Microsoft and Dartmouth College, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), have come up with […]

The Bing search engine finally broke the 10 percent market share barrier in November, according to the latest research from Web analytics firm comScore. However, Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) search engine growth once again comes at the expense of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) rather than cutting into Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) dominant position. Bing launched six months ago […]

The European Union’s suit against Microsoft over bundling has finally been settled, though as Datamation reports, the EU’s European Commission will continue to monitor Microsoft’s compliance with the terms. Microsoft’s long-running feud with the European Commission (EC) may finally be at an end — or maybe not. Neelie Kroes, the outgoing commissioner for competition in […]