Microsoft plans to eliminate the most controversial of its Windows Vista anti-piracy features in the OS's upcoming Service Pack update. The company now plans to ax Vista's "kill switch", which disables features of the operating system when it appears

What do you do when you're locked in a battle for network access market share with the world's largest networking provider? If you're Nortel, you team up with one of the world's largest software providers. Nortel is strengthening its Microsoft

Portals are so twentieth century. Or are they? Joanne Bradford, chief media officer for Microsoft's MSN site, is brushing aside any criticism that online portals have seen their best days. Speaking at VentureWire's Consumer Technology Innovations

Microsoft finally gave its upcoming Windows Server virtualization technology an official name this week, and also announced its packaging plans for the technology. The announcement came Monday at the company's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona

How do you cut down on Windows piracy while making a little extra money selling out-of-date software? If you're Microsoft, you set up a program to let companies that recycle used computers buy bulk licenses that let them legally install Windows XP

After two years of talking about it, Microsoft has finally given its forthcoming server bundle for mid-sized businesses a name. Previously codenamed Centro, the package, which is slated to ship in the second half of 2008, is now officially called Windows

Microsoft doesn't always deliver products late. Sometimes the company ships even gargantuan products a little early. That's the case this month, as company officials announced at Microsoft's TechEd Developer event in Barcelona, Spain, that Visual Studio

Microsoft and its chairman, Bill Gates, have had a vision of a totally interconnected world for nearly two decades – ever since Gates presented his now fabled "Information at Your Fingertips" speech and video at Comdex Fall 1990 in Las Vegas. Many of