The Microsoft juggernaut is further shaking up the virtualization arena. True, VMware (NYSE: VMW) dominates the market now, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling on with its plans to build an ecosystem of third-party developers to flesh out its

Microsoft revealed this week new details of its forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), including several capabilities designed especially for IT shops. The new features will include a function that enables administrators to slipstream IE8 into Windows

Microsoft has quietly hired the founder of antispam Web site CastleCops.com to work on its own antispam efforts regarding the company's consumer Live services initiative. CastleCops founder and administrator Paul Laudanski

The keynote kicking off the second week of Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed conference – this week for IT professionals -- didn't have Bill Gates. That was last week, when Gates gave his goodbye speech to third party developers. What Tuesday

Microsoft announced this week it is shipping Windows Search 4 for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2008, an update that adds the capability to search other computers that also have the software installed. At the same time, Microsoft's

Microsoft on Wednesday debuted a new version of its customizable operating system for embedded applications -- but perhaps a little surprisingly, it's not based on Windows Vista. Instead, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, as it's called,

In what Microsoft chairman Bill Gates described as his last keynote before he stops working full-time at the company he co-founded, the enigmatic tech visionary showed developers attending the company's 16th Tech-Ed conference Tuesday that he still has

Microsoft surprised the search world two weeks ago by saying it would pay advertisers and consumers for using its search engine. Now, it's doing something a little more traditional -- bundling its search engine with new consumer PCs.