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Article | 26/05/2010 Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone?
A shakeup in Microsoft's gaming and devices business finally splits two groups that should never have been together, and could unleash the company's m...
Article | 29/04/2010 HTC Android deal could pay off for Microsoft, not Google
Microsoft may be on its way to earning a percentage of every Android handset sold, something even Google hasn't accomplished.
Article | 13/04/2010 Microsoft's next of Kin: No cure for smartphone fatigue
As I type this, Microsoft is announcing two new slider mobile phones, the Kin One and Kin Two -- successors to the beloved but aging-faster-than-Micke...
Article | 13/04/2010 Kin Two: Stylish, but missing key Features
With a better design and stronger specs, the Kin Two (Verizon; price TBA) outshines its sibling, the Kin One. But it isn't perfect: Limitations and om...
Article | 31/03/2010 What you need to know about Microsoft's emergency IE patch
So far 2010 hasn't been kind to the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. It is only March, and Microsoft is releasing the second emergency out-of-...
Article | 12/03/2010 It's time to finally drop Internet Explorer 6
A security researcher has published exploit code for the latest Internet Explorer zero-day flaw on the Web and Microsoft is warning that more attacks ...
Article | 5/03/2010 Top 10 features that Apple stole from Windows
Steve Jobs once said that Microsoft stole Windows from Apple, but there has been plenty of idea snatching on both sides over the years. Windows 7 and ...
Article | 4/03/2010 Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream
Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux...
Article | 23/02/2010 Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back
It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates' handpicked successor, yet dependi...
Article | 23/02/2010 Google, Microsoft and Apple: Which one will thrive?
Apple, Google and Microsoft are locked in a three-way struggle for industry dominance, competing to varying degrees on hardware, computer and cell ph...
Article | 19/02/2010 The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: what it means for you
Microsoft and Yahoo, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
Article | 18/02/2010 Is Windows Phone 7 right for business?
Amid all the hoopla surrounding the introduction of Windows Phone 7 Series this week in Barcelona, Microsoft's core customers have been almost totally...
Article | 10/02/2010 Hands-on with Microsoft's Surface
It has been 18 months since Microsoft first unveiled Surface, and the multitouch, multi-user table has officially made it to Australian shores. Equipp...
Article | 5/02/2010 9-year-old plots his fifth Microsoft certification
Born with a passion for computing, 9-year-old Marko Calasan hasn't wasted any time becoming a high-tech pro with four Microsoft IT certifications.
Article | 5/02/2010 Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communicatio...