Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft says early corporate adopters of Windows 7 are already saving money due to the new system’s low total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging the results of a Microsoft-sponsored (NASDAQ: MSFT) survey conducted by Forrester Research, and several new case studies describing successful early adopters’ experiences, the software giant hopes to jump start volume purchases […]

Microsoft and Yahoo confirmed Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has begun the process of examining whether the two companies’ deal to basically gang up to go after Google’s dominant share of the search market should be given the green light. The scrutiny has been expected ever since Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo […]

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a $358 million damage award against Microsoft in a patent lawsuit is exorbitant, but still found that the software giant had still infringed a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent. The court sent the case back to the lower court to reassess damages. Both companies immediately claimed victory, with each […]

With the consumer launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 just six weeks away, the company has debuted its first television ad for the new OS. The company’s spot, which made its first appearance Thursday night during the premier of CW’s “Vampire Diaries” series, centers around a little girl who is playing on her dad’s computer and […]

Microsoft has built a new modular datacenter to house most of the servers the company uses for research and development of its products previously scattered around the campus. Its objective is to drive down costs related to those servers as well as to be easier on the environment. Many global companies are going with green […]

When you put 20,000 Microsoft employees together in a baseball stadium and show them demos of an unannounced version of the company’s new Bing search engine, it’s bound to leak out eventually, but Microsoft probably didn’t think it would wind up all over Twitter within hours. However, that’s just what happened. According to tweets coming […]

With the appeals hearing on Microsoft’s patent infringement case just two weeks away, the plaintiffs filed their response to the software giant’s request that the smaller firm’s legal victory and damages be thrown out. Toronto-based i4i didn’t pull any punches in its move to both counter and discredit Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) assertions in front of […]

Microsoft recognizes that sales of netbooks may cut into its sales and profits of Windows for laptops and desktops but it still embraces the revenue opportunity, the company’s chief financial officer told financial analysts Wednesday. And despite what appears to be expensive pricing for Windows 7, Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) chief money man Chris Liddell insisted […]

Following confirmation by a passel of security experts, Microsoft now admits that a key file-sharing protocol in several recent versions of Windows suffers from a zero-day vulnerability — which also affects a pre-release version of Windows 7. However, the company remains adamant that the hole does not impact the final version of Windows 7 that […]

Microsoft plans to give broadcasters a peek at the next version of its Silverlight streaming media technology this week as company executives show their wares at a major global media show. Silverlight 4 will add native multicast support as well as offline digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said in a statement Tuesday. The […]

Windows 7’s commercial debut is still six weeks and change away, but hackers haven’t been dozing. Monday, a hacker named Laurent Gaffie posted what he claims is proof-of-concept code for a zero-day attack on Windows 7 and Windows Vista on the Full Disclosure security blog. However, after an initial investigation, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says it’s […]

Microsoft today released five patches for Windows as part of September’s “Patch Tuesday” update roundup — all of them rated “critical” on the software giant’s four-tier rating scale. But the newest installment of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) monthly Patch Tuesday updates won’t include a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that the company divulged last week. The […]