It’s emerged that the Family Pack offer for Windows 7 is to expire this week in the United States. It appears likely the deal will be withdrawn at the same time or soon after internationally.
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, has met a court demand to give more specific examples of his wide-ranging allegations of patent violation. But the suit, which names most major online companies, doesn’t appear any more convincing with the added detail.
There’ve been plenty of stories over the past year of manufacturers making tablets that run Windows. Now it appears Microsoft is working on a version of Windows that runs on tablets.
Microsoft has withdrawn an anti-piracy measure commonly dubbed nagware. The company has, in a very low-key manner, ditched the Office Genuine Advantage scheme.
Microsoft has released the second edition of its free Security Essentials software. It includes changes both visible and under the hood.
A flurry of Windows-based iPad rivals will be unveiled by Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer in Las Vegas next month. And they are guaranteed to get a good critical reception and strong sales.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has come up against an unusual legal barrier in his attempts to sue what seems like most of the online business community: Nobody’s really sure what he’s talking about.
Another mammoth Microsoft security update will fix the final bug that allowed the Stuxnet worm to spread. But as news that Stuxnet is still a major problem in Iran, Congress has again been warned that it could be a taste of future cyber warfare.
Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 will include a tool for consumers to specifically bar a website from sharing details about what they do online. In some ways, the measure actually goes a step beyond ideas recently proposed by the Federal Trade Commission recently.
Leaked U.S. government documents suggest Chinese officials may have gained access to the source code for Windows. It’s implied they may have used the code to aid hacking efforts against the West.
Google has beaten Microsoft to a contract to provide e-mail and related services to 17,000 federal government workers. It may be a case that Microsoft’s traditional branding advantage has come back to bite it.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a final appeal by Microsoft in a patent case that is set to cost it $290 million. The hearing is likely to examine the entire basis of patent law.
We’ve already had estimates that Windows Phone 7 handsets got off to a slow start in the United States. Now one British retailer is reporting more embarrassing sales figures for the system.
While there have been several unofficial modifications of the Kinect motion control hardware to date, they’ve mainly been by the type of people who use screennames and can be dismissed by mainstream onlookers (however unfairly) as weirdoes in bedrooms. That’s all changes with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology producing its own hack for the system.
HP’s attempts to compete with the iPad using a Windows-based device proved an embarrassing flop. But now Dell and Acer both believe Windows 7 on a tablet is worth a shot.
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