A major European campaign, Safer Internet Day (SID), kicked off yesterday, with the intent of teaching children aged five and up the importance of protecting their online identity and not talking to strangers. Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, in association with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), took the opportunity to launch a new version of IE8 that makes it easy for youngsters to find information about staying safe online.
Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.
Read MoreMicrosoft has provided some early testers with a near-final "release candidate" version of Office 2010 as the software maker works to make the suite broadly available in June.
Microsoft's long and winding road toward regaining lost ground in the cell phone business will reach an important milestone in Barcelona next month. At the annual Mobile World Congress event, Microsoft will at long last show off Windows Mobile 7--its oft-delayed major revamp of the decade-old Windows CE code base that has been at the core of its mobile operating system since the days of challenging the Palm Pilot.
On January 19, Microsoft made it officially official. Microsoft is
confirming that the latest version of its database will be out “by May”
and will be on the May price list. A new posting on the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog confirmed the May date. According to that blog, there have been 150,000 downloads by testers of the R2 release.
Microsoft announced the combination of the Windows Azure group with the Windows Server and Solutions group into a new organization, titled the Server and Cloud Division. The new division, headed by Senior Vice President Amitabh Srivastava, will be a part of the Servers and Tools Business, headed by Bob Muglia.
Read MoreAfter launching IE 8 in March, Micosoft has concurred with critics that IE 6 is outdated. Many people have dropped the older browser, but the remaining users are often the tough cases-those who don't have a choice because of corporate computing policy or who aren't tech-savvy enough to realize there's a reason to move on.
Windows 7 passed the 5% market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share of all versions of Apple's Mac OS X, a Web measurement firm said today.
Read MoreAccording to Miscrosoft's top IE manager, the next browser Internet Explorer 9 will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance.
Microsoft plans to transition its Windows Azure cloud computing platform from preview to full production capacity on 1st January next year. The service, currently operating as a free Community Technology Preview (CTP), will remain no-cost throughout January; from February 1st it will start accumulating charges.