Microsoft may still be in search of other lucrative markets besides it software and OS division. But as of recent times, it has not really achieved the success that it may have expected. Recent launches from Microsoft did not really catch on within the consumer market. One thing in mind was the Microsoft Kin smart phone. The software giant pulled the plug on its first entry into the market and the so-called socia...

It seems that the tech sector has recently been going through a good year so far. Aside from Apple recording its highest fiscal quarter revenue ever, there are other companies that also seem to show upbeat numbers and continue to exceed expectations. Microsoft is one of the major tech players who followed suit this fiscal quarter. Software giant Microsoft posted revenue numbers in the fiscal fourth quarter that ex...

Microsoft seems to be going into a series of unfortunate events recently. The software giant recently saw its Microsoft Kin smart phone going down the road of obscurity by announcing its discontinuation. Even their tablet concept, the so-called Courier project, was shelved in the light of the iPad launch. The company may even have been hounded by so-called news or rumors of mass layoffs that turned out to be quite...

It seems that the computing technology sector is finally going up. Aside from recent reports of Apple, Intel and Google posting record profits this quarter, Microsoft seems to be following suit. The popular maker of Windows OS and Office tools have recently reported its 3rd quarter revenues that ended on March 31, 2010. The reports show robust numbers for Microsoft in terms of revenue. According to its earnings r...

Starting next week, Europe will cast their votes in one of the hottest elections in the continent this year:  Electing what web browser they should use on their PCs. After the European Commission forced Microsoft to let the people choose their web browser instead of putting Internet Explorer by default, all Windows-based computers in Europe will be alerted about an important decision.  The PC screens wo...

Representatives of the German and French governments recommended its citizens to stop using the Internet Explorer after it was revealed that a security loophole within Microsoft’s web browser was used by hackers to exploit Google Inc. and other companies. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) posted on its official website an advice for a "temporary use of alternative browsers&q...

It seems that even giants in the industry may not always get their way. Microsoft has recently lost its appeal in a patent infringement case involving a feature used in its Word application. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals is not overturning a patent infringement verdict concerning XML features in Word owned by another company. The Court is awarding Toronto based i4i, the owner of the Custom XML patent, more...

The Associated Press reports that Microsoft is unlikely to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to gain exclusive search-indexing rights to News Corp. content such as from The Wall Street Journal and FOX News to Microsoft’s search engine Bing.  This comes after Murdoch claims that Google is "stealing" their news content and plans to pull out his news sites from being indexed on the popula...

You might have heard about Windows users (even those not using Windows 7, mind) complaining about a plain black screen which appears upon logging in, – and during which, the systems lock up – and remains locked. There have also been reports of users getting an additional My Computer window and the system stopping completely. In response, Microsoft is currently "investigating reports that its...

Microsoft Danger, the partnership that brought to the consumers the T-Mobile Sidekick smart phone has announced that it may have lost all or most of the personal data of Sidekick users that are being stored on its servers. An even sadder thing is that Microsoft Danger may have slim chances of ever restoring or retrieving the lost data. The said loss was said to be due to a supposed server failure at Microsoft Da...