Stuart J. Johnston

While Microsoft maintains that Windows Vista is the most successful version of its iconic operating system ever, that picture may be dimmed by a new

The pre-beta version of Windows 7 that Microsoft handed out at two major conferences this fall was uploaded to BitTorrent sites almost immediately --

Microsoft announced on Tuesday it is shipping the first public beta of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Vista Service Pack 2. For the next couple of

Spamhaus.org, an organization that tracks and analyzes spam traffic, has fingered Microsoft as the fifth most spammer-friendly e-mail service in the

It was a metaphorical swing and a miss that evidently gave Adobe a win over Microsoft this week. No, it's not the boys of summer playing exhibition games

Intel officials may have been pleased that Microsoft lowered standards for obtaining the company's Windows Vista Capable logo program sticker, but the

Click on the graphic for a larger view of Live ServicesMicrosoft says its long-awaited 'Wave 3' of Windows Live Services will begin to be delivered

Twenty-five years ago this week, a youthful Bill Gates stood on stage at New York's posh Helmsley Palace Hotel to announce the future of computing: the

That didn't take long. Just last week, Microsoft distributed a pre-beta release of Windows 7 to attendees at its annual Professional Developers Conference

The executive in charge of delivering Windows 7, the next version of Windows, made an appeal this week to developers to put in extra effort to write

Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates officially retired in June, but his technology torch has been taken up by his hand-picked successor, chief software

Microsoft executives put their best face on Windows Vista sales at the company's annual financial analysts meeting Thursday when they presented their