For years, the poster child of the anti-open source movement was Microsoft, with its proprietary software model. In recent years, however, the company has changed its views, starting an open source software lab to work on interoperability issues.

For Web developers and surfers who discovered that Internet Explorer 7.0 "broke" some (or many) of their favorite Web sites, there may be good news. Now, Microsoft is working to avoid that problem in version 8 by letting Web site developers signal

Last month Microsoft helped form an industry association focused on helping developers make hardware and software more accessible. On Thursday, Microsoft announced more tangible steps to help that effort along. The Accessibility Interoperability

In the wake of recent high-level departures from Microsoft's senior management team, another long-term corporate vice president has also left the company. Last week, Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, announced he will leave

Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive, an online storage service for sharing files and links it launched in beta this past August, became a repository for spammers to host links to their electronic junk mail. McAfee's Avert Labs was first to point it

After a sudden and heated controversy arose last week over blocking older file formats in the latest service pack of Office 2003, Microsoft late Friday all but reversed itself. Along with apologies to both users and other software makers, Microsoft also

The past year was full of legal and regulatory messes for Microsoft. Plus, Windows Vista missed the 2006 Christmas rush, and the company was slow to roll out its online services. But things could be looking up in 2008, at least in some areas for