A federal judge in Seattle Tuesday declined to dismiss a consumer's lawsuit against Microsoft who claims that the company's "Windows Vista Capable" logo program was deceptive and misleading. That means that the suit will go forward for now. The lawsuit

A San Diego judge overturned Monday a record-breaking $1.52 billion patent-infringement judgment against Microsoft. The decision reverses a jury determination that Microsoft infringed on Alcatel-Lucent's MP3 patents. U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M.

Microsoft this week shipped the second preview version of SQL Server 2008, and company officials said that the product is on track for release in the second quarter of next year. Microsoft released the first community technology preview (CTP) of SQL

Talk about getting antsy. Microsoft has only just begun Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008, but it's already preparing the first community technology preview, or CTP, of that product's successor. Visual Studio 2008 -- previously codenamed Orcas after an island

A billion computers will be running Windows worldwide by the end of the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30, company CEO Steve Ballmer told the audience Thursday at Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting. The company reported last week

Microsoft is readying the first limited beta of its forthcoming Web analytics tool for release, it hopes, later this summer. Code-named Gatineau, the product aims to compete with Google Analytics, which is already on version 2. So Microsoft has some

Microsoft plans to ship this week the second beta test releases of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, according to a blog post by the head of the project. The company this week also began shipping an alpha test version of its IronRuby dynamic

A U.S. committee whose recommendation is viewed to be a bellwether as to whether Microsoft's Office OpenXML (OOXML) document formats are likely to be adopted as a major international standard, failed last week to garner enough votes to move the proposed