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Security is a serious concern now more than ever, with hackers and cybercriminals becoming more organized and looking to profit on a wealth of stolen information.  Typically problems fall into the PICNIC variety - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer - but that does not change the fact that some platforms due to design are more vulnerable to attack. Typically vulnerability ...

Nov. 24 - As the holiday shopping season looms, those looking for new PCs face a bounty. There are a slew of shiny new systems on store shelves and e-commerce sites, largely thanks to Microsoft's recent release of Windows 7. Knowing that the antidote to Windows Vista was just around the corner, PC makers revamped their lines to take advantage ...

Nov. 19 - LOS ANGELES - If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. It also said Office Web Apps, Microsoft's online competitor to Google's Google Docs, will be available for anyone who downloads the 2010 beta. Office Mobile 2010 is also ...

One of the pleasant surprises of diving back into the world of Windows was exploring Windows Live's apps, which bundle e-mail, file storage, social networking, instant messaging, photo sharing and blogging into one clean, organized online spot. The offerings are more than enough for average computer users, and Windows Live is the closest thing I've used to serving as a one-stop ...

'Microsoft is listening to you, and here's what it's done.' - Microsoft's Windows 7 team has been pretty quiet for the last month and a half since releasing their beta to the public, and many wondered what, if any, changes were going to show up in the final version of Windows 7.  Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of the Windows ...

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7 after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers. Windows 7 so far has been doing much better than Vista and is growing rapidly in marketshare in the computer market. Early reports showed that retail box sales of Windows 7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the ...

Most every computer user is a whiz at pointing and clicking with a mouse. If Microsoft has a say, you'll become equally adept at touching and tapping the PC screen directly with your fingers. As part of the company's recent launch of Windows 7, the vastly improved successor to Windows Vista, Microsoft hopes to usher in a new era for ...

With Windows Vista, Microsoft revamped many features and piled on a lot of functionality that Windows XP didn't have - among other things improving security.  An unfortunate side effect of this, though was that Windows Vista was much bulkier than Windows XP and more battery hungry.  As a result, up until October most netbooks used Windows XP. With Windows 7, more ...

'Who leaked Windows 7? Was it Microsoft? Or hackers? Or the 1991 Denver Broncos?' - Microsoft's Windows 7 beta 1 was not officially intended for release until January.  However, the release somehow hit torrent sites this week.  Many, including commenters here at DailyTech, suspected the "leak" was really a clever ruse by Microsoft to drum up tech community excitement for its ...

'Windows 7 is set to drop mid-year 2009, says Microsoft. The company also detailed its plans for improving Vista.' - At Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), an important yearly event for the tech giant, new hardware details on the upcoming Windows 7 weren't the only revelation that Microsoft had in store.  Perhaps the most significant development of the conference came as ...

'Unfortunately, the fix won't arrive until next Vista service pack.' - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is one of the most maligned operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. The operating system has been panned by some users and critics and has become the brunt of jokes in commercials from rival Apple for its Mac computer systems. One of the key things ...

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January. Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said Wednesday the cuts are being made in offices around the globe. He would not say what specific product groups or job types are affected. Gellos also says Microsoft had already let nearly ...

While Apple seems to be content with "going negative" when it comes to commercials touting its computing products, Microsoft has taken a different route with Windows 7. Apple has focused more on bashing Windows 7 (and the faults of its predecessors) rather than focus on the main strengths of the OS X platform. Microsoft, on the other hand, has created positive ...

Governments have been allowing Microsoft to enact new and renewal contracts under "no-bid" conditions - handing billions of $$ to the software monopoly. Now Open Source companies are banding together to fight back.

It is fitting that Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system arrives ahead of Halloween. When Microsoft buries Windows Vista for good on Oct. 22 and replaces it with Windows 7, the ghostbusters in Redmond will have exorcised a demon. If you haven't experienced the frights of Vista firsthand, you've no doubt heard about them: how it takes forever to power ...

SEATTLE - Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google. Traditionally, search engines from Google Inc. and others respond to users' queries by offering links to other sites that Web surfers can go to for information. Microsoft Corp., ...

Oct. 18 - With Windows 7, Microsoft may have found its mojo again. Reviewers are giving the new operating system the thumbs up, this after the technical and marketing blunders the company was unable to shake with the predecessor, Vista. Still, even though Windows 7 has been lauded as everything Vista should have been, Microsoft is launching its flagship product Thursday ...

Microsoft dropped a blockbuster product announcement yesterday via Gizmodo.  After months of Apple-tablet rumors, including word that Steve Jobs himself is masterminding the device, it is Apple's competitor Microsoft that has stolen the spotlight with the announcement of an upcoming touchscreen ultra-mobile device. The new device was developed with positively Apple-like secrecy.  Only a handful of engineers worked on or were ...

Microsoft is fighting hard to win marketshare from Google and the other players in the lucrative search industry. Google remains the top dog with over 60% of the search market, while Microsoft brings up a distant third place to the Google juggernaut. Microsoft says that Bing has yet to be fully pushed on the international market. According to Microsoft's Charles Songhurst, ...

With Windows 7 launching this week, there are many businesses and consumers looking to upgrade from Windows XP and Vista to the new OS. For the individual upgrading a single computer may not be that big of an issue, but for enterprise users with hundreds of thousand of machines needing updated, the migration to a new OS can be arduous. Dell ...