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Bolstered by an ‘exceptional demand’ for its new operating system Windows 7, software major Microsoft’s profit soared 60 per cent to $ 6.66 billion in the last three months of 2009. Microsoft raked in record revenues to the tune of $ 19.02 billion for the second quarter ended December 31...

Software engineer Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Microsoft’s Windows 95, picked up a Mac for the first time two years ago. He was so impressed, he says he’ll never touch a PC again. Satoshi loves Apple products so much, he started a company in April, Big Canvas, to develop for...

Vista Manual. Part 1: Getting it out of the box Posted Feb. 2, ’08, 11:07 AM PT by Aayush Arya Ask Microsoft and they’ll tell you that Vista is an easy to use operating system but even they agree that getting it out of the packaging is no task for the feeble spirited. Among the Windows Help...

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007, 6:39 PM Warning: Joke Ahead I’m worried about America. Everybody knows we have an energy deficit, a courtesy deficit and a fiscal deficit. But what I’m worried about is the humor deficit. Last year, in one of my videos, I mocked Microsoft for its lack of creativity in...

Microsoft plans to make available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet, a practice increasingly referred to as “cloud” computing. The initiative is part of an effort to connect Windows more seamlessly to a growing array of...

Found this nice little titbit at RLSLOG.net *www.rlslog.net/google-complains-against-search-in-vista/ Google Inc. has complained to federal antitrust officials that the search tool in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista discourages customers from using its own search utility, the company...

"Microsoft scored 70 out of 100 on the latest Q1 results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index released by Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. That's down from 74 for the same period in 2006, the first year Microsoft was ranked. Microsoft still ranked higher than many big...

Microsoft is patching 19 critical vulnerabilities as part of its regular “Patch Tuesday” round of fixes. The fixes cover security holes in Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. Two of the fixes are for Microsoft’s newest operating system Vista. Seven patches were for Microsoft Office...