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Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.

Microsoft appears to be setting the stage for an all-out war on Apple's iPod with two sly moves. Its tactics thus far are a new ad campaign targeting the high cost of filling an iPod as opposed to the $15 Zune Pass music rental program, and a flurry of ...

XP Mode is Microsoft's solution to legacy application compatibility under Windows 7. I won't get into the details a second time, but if you're curious how it works, check out the previous post on the subject.

Microsoft notified Tuesday more employees who will lose their jobs as part of the software giant's planned elimination of around 5,000 positions.

The software giant thinks it can make money in social networking the old-fashioned way - charging subscription fees.

Microsoft Corp said on Friday a version of its long awaited Windows 7 operating system will be made available from next week.

Microsoft sales fall in the first three months of 2009 - its first quarterly revenue drop since 1986.

Microsoft is the company that invented the concept of launching a beta product in order to build up traction for the final product.

Power browsers are coming. And they'll look mighty familiar. Software is supposed to be a mature industry, characterized by some sort of mono- or duopoly. How to explain, then, the activity around Web browsers. Three of the tech industry's biggest names -- Microsoft, Google and Apple -- each has a significant in-house browser development effort, with periodic fresh releases.

Microsoft could have Windows 7 on shipping PCs by September, Compal president Ray Chen said today at an investor's conference. The PC contractor executive understands from plans that the software should be available in either late September or early October.