The people in charge of the European Union really don’t like Microsoft. They tend to see it as an overly-dominant company which succeeds in maintaining its huge market share in many sectors by unfair means. Microsoft, rather unsurprisingly, disagrees. Cue a battle to the death, with Internet Explorer being the weapon of choice.

It’s been rumored all week but Microsoft has now finally made it official – there will be no three-application limit in the Windows 7 Starter edition. And rightly so, because this was one of the only aspects of Microsoft’s new operating system that appeared not to be getting a universal seal of approval.

Just a day after Microsoft’s official unveiling of its “decision engine” Bing, there’s already a diverse reaction. Those who’ve been given advance access generally like the performance, but there are already questions over the launch.

Sometimes we at Blorge get things wrong, and this is one of those times. Contrary to our suspicions, Microsoft’s new search tool will indeed be called Bing rather than Kumo.

An update to Microsoft’s Zune has been rumored for the past few months. Would it get a name change? What features would it add? Would it have a touchscreen? All those questions have now been answered with the official announcement of the next iteration of Zune. It’s called Zune HD and it’s coming this fall.

More details are emerging about how Microsoft intends to compete with Google through its new search engine, tentatively titled Kumo. There is also some more weight to the idea that the site may have a different name.

Windows 7 is just months away from release, but Windows Vista is currently the OS that most of us are using. Having already improved massively since its release, the newly-available SP2 improves Vista even more. Get it while it’s hot.

Microsoft has come under fire after revealing its definition of a netbook for Windows 7 pricing purposes. Critics claim the firm has deliberately set the criteria to benefit Intel and to eliminate the mid-price market for netbooks.

Geo-blocking of products, services, and media is as commonplace as anything these days. From movies being released earlier in some countries, online video services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer being viewable on only one side of the Atlantic, and now access to Microsoft’s Live Messenger being blocked in a number of countries.

Microsoft has reportedly picked the name Bing as a replacement for its new search engine, originally dubbed Kumo. The firm will reportedly spend as much as $100 million advertising it across all media.

Microsoft is currently a bit-part player in the search market. But it isn’t alone. Everyone else is also a bit-part player due to the dominance of Google, which at last estimate had at least a 60 percent share of the market. But Microsoft hasn’t given up the fight quite yet and is preparing to launch a new search engine and an expensive new ad campaign to push it onto the public.

While most of us are currently awaiting the release of Windows 7, the U.S. Army is only now thinking about upgrading to Vista. Oh, and forget Office 2010 for the time being, the U.S. Army is about to upgrade to Office 2007. There’s nothing like being at the cutting edge of technology.

Microsoft is set to target the burgeoning netbook market extensively with Windows 7 upon release. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 has been designed to work on these low-cost, low-grade machines. The problem is making sure manufacturers want the new OS on their machines, so costs have to be kept to a bare minimum.

Microsoft will no longer be giving oral evidence in its appeal against the European Union’s charge of anti-competitive behavior in bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The firm pulled out of a scheduled hearing claiming the absence of EU competition experts would make the event pointless.

Microsoft’s senior software executive has admitted many business users are suspicious of cloud computing. He’s also defended the firm’s continued commitment to online services.