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Article | 12/06/2009 Microsoft trying to set own antitrust remedy, says Opera CEO
Microsoft's plan to strip out its Internet Explorer (IE) browser from Windows 7 in Europe, due for sale in the fall, is designed to force the European...
Article | 11/06/2009 Is Microsoft following GM's road map?
It's always shocking when a stalwart of any industry topples. It makes people pause and lay blame in a variety of directions. Some may be slightly con...
Article | 10/06/2009 Should Nintendo take credit for motion control in gaming?
What came first, the motion controller or the Nintendo Wii? That is the age-old question. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, it was the latter that laid g...
Article | 10/06/2009 EC: Is Microsoft pressuring witnesses in antitrust case?
The European Commission is asking PC makers and software rivals if Microsoft has been pressuring them in connection with the ongoing antitrust case co...
Article | 4/06/2009 Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'
Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on...
Article | 3/06/2009 Confirmed: PSP Go, Final Fantasy XIV, Motion-Control Wand
Leave it to Sony to prove that sometimes the best really does come last. Striding onstage only to be dwarfed by a titanic 40-by-80-foot screen, Sony P...
Article | 2/06/2009 Windows 7 public previews slow Vista's growth, says metrics firm
Windows Vista's market share growth has slowed since Microsoft released public versions of Vista's successor, Windows 7, according to data published t...
Article | 2/06/2009 Metal Gear Solid revealed for Xbox 360
Microsoft's E3 2009 press conference is all-systems-go, so what did Redmond, Washington have up its sleeve? Some pretty amazing stuff, actually. Metal...
Article | 2/06/2009 Xbox gains Facebook and Twitter integration
Microsoft's Xbox is about to get a lot more social. Twitter and Facebook will soon be coming to the system, Microsoft announced Monday, bringing an in...
Article | 29/05/2009 Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor
Corporate migration to Windows 7 may be less about evaluating the new Microsoft operating system and more about how to properly gauge the correct time...
Article | 29/05/2009 Hands on with Microsoft Bing
At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. ...
Article | 28/05/2009 5 things I want to know about Bing
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is expected to take the stage Thursday at the D: All Things D conference and debut Redmond's new search brand, codenamed Kum...
Article | 27/05/2009 Microsoft 'Bing' would bring new life to old domain
Microsoft's planning to relaunch its Live search engine under the name "Bing," a recent report suggests.
Article | 12/05/2009 Is your PC ready for Windows 7? This tool lets you know
Microsoft has released the beta version of its Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, a free utility that tells you if your PC is ready to run Windows 7.
Article | 12/05/2009 Speed test: Windows 7 may not be much faster than Vista
Tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in our PC World Test Center found that while Windows 7 was slightly faster on our WorldBench 6 suite, the dif...