Stuart J. Johnston

It seems like it's always the fine print that gets you. Microsoft announced a deal on Friday that lets customers who buy Office 2007 between now and Sept.

Microsoft quietly announced that it will release Office 2010, as well as several related products, to business customers on May 12. In addition, in a

Microsoft released its advance notice for next week's "Patch Tuesday" bug fixes and, for a change, system administrators should have a fairly peaceful

As the rest of the economy begins to reawaken, Microsoft's prospects for the next couple of years are starting to look a bit like the good old days. That

Microsoft has rereleased a bug patch from last month that some Windows XP users blamed for repeated restarts and blue screen crashes. After investigating,

As of Monday, the free "Release Candidate," or RC, of Windows 7 will start to automatically shut down every two hours to warn users that the RC will

Intel has been so closely equated with Microsoft over the past 20 years that friend and foe alike have often referred to the pair as "Wintel." The two

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is releasing a version of its hosted online services for business optimized for government IT organizations. The new

Microsoft's update to its anti-piracy tool is now available via Windows Update, the company has confirmed. Called Windows Activation Technologies, or WAT,

Windows 7 has had a positive impact on consumer sales of Windows and new PCs in its first four months of availability, but many users may have forgotten

Microsoft said it will begin external testing next week in the U.K., Belgium and France of the so-called browser "choice screen" mandated by the company's

Feeling good about that new Windows 7 PC? Would you feel less sanguine if someone told you that recent tests show that 85 percent of Windows 7 PCs are in