By late in the day, sales on what the e-retail industry calls Cyber Monday were up 11 percent from a year ago, according to Web analytics firm Coremetrics. [...]
Google's slew of new online advertising techniques, including integrated movie trailers and price-comparison ads, has spurred one analyst to raise his Google stock-price target by $40. [...]
Jeff Reifman, the former Microsoft manager who's been theorizing that the company illegally avoids Washington taxes, wants CEO Steve Ballmer himself to address the issue. Reifman wrote Ballmer an open letter Sunday, calling on the chief executive to practice the corporate transparency he so praises. [...]
Nick Eaton/seattlepi.comChris Cashman, host of the "1 vs. 100" game show on Xbox Live, performs his Xbox avatar's voice during a live production Tuesday at Microsoft Studios in Redmond. | Photo gallery It's a game show. It's a video game. It's a TV show. What is Xbox Live's "1 vs. 100"? [...]
Alan M. Ralsky, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam" who pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges in June, was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison, the Department of Justice said. [...]
Every once and a while, there comes a time when I just have to post an old video. This one is from an Apple event in 1983, where three software magnates competed in a faux dating game for Steve Jobs' love.' [...]
Appearing on KUOW's "The Conversation" on Monday was Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft employee who has been writing about Microsoft's software-licensing practices and whether they are illegal. [...]
Datel Design & Development on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft after the software company locked out unauthorized Xbox 360 memory units. [...]
Microsoft reportedly is in talks with News Corp. and other publishers to pay for exclusive content indexing on Bing if they cut ties with Google. [...]
Microsoft, responding to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's call for boycotting Bing, says its search engine contains a bug that makes its image search return pro-Communist results when performed in Simplified Chinese. [...]
Apple reportedly has delayed launch plans for its still-rumored tablet PC until the second half of 2010, reports DigiTimes. A launch previously was expected in March. [...]
The next version of Windows, so far codenamed Windows 8, could be due out in 2012, according to slides apparently shown at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this week. [...]
The Parents Television Council, which aims to protect children from sex, violence and profanity on TV, is calling for Microsoft to stop advertising on the popular show "Family Guy." [...]
Tom Burt is a self-described "car guy." The Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel races and owns many sports cars. Including one of those all-electric Tesla Roadsters. [...]
It hasn't been even two years since Bill Gates left his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy, and already he's shifted mostly out of the spotlight.' [...]
Google on Thursday announced that its Web browser-based operating system, Chrome OS, will go to market in one year. It will be free and targeted at netbooks. [...]
Updated 12:54 p.m.: Added information and screenshots after an interview with Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Office marketing. [...]
Google seems set to announce its Chrome OS launch plans Thursday during an event at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to an invitation sent to select media outlets. [...]
In case you missed it: Now available is the Xbox Live update that brings Zune video, Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration to the gaming console. [...]
Microsoft and a former employee have settled a multiparty lawsuit that entangled allegations of patent infringement, fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets. [...]
Microsoft is expected to share information Wednesday about Internet Explorer 9, the next version of the ubiquitous Web browser, at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. [...]
Updated 1:41 p.m.: Skip ahead to 2:14. Is that woman in the white shirt shoplifting? She certainly picked up something from the table and put it in her bag. Can you tell? [...]
Updated 11:52 a.m.: Microsoft says it is still working on restoring Sidekick data and services. An Oct. 17 status update is still the company's most recent statement. [...]
In case you hadn't been bombarded enough by Web video ads, banner ads, search ads, radio ads, TV ads, newspaper ads, magazine ads and billboard ads, you can now choose to bombard yourself with advertising in Windows 7.' [...]
Raging through the tech blogs Thursday was a Groklaw report that Microsoft seemingly has sneakily patented an open-source technology called "sudo." [...]
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, whose net worth is about $50 billion, said Wednesday he believes Wall Street pay is "often too high," Reuters reported. [...]
Microsoft's long-awaited Xbox Live update, including the integration of Zune video, Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm, is launching next Tuesday after a month of previewing and testing. [...]
As Microsoft developed its new operating system, Windows 7, its own IT folks got involved early in the process. That helped the software giant, still reeling from the disappointing reception of Windows Vista, get it right this time. [...]
Windows Mobile 7, the smartphone operating system Microsoft direly needs to turn around its mobile business, could be released to manufacturers for testing during the first quarter of 2010 and be ready for launch in the third quarter, reports indicate. [...]
Microsoft has spun MSN Video into its refreshed Bing Video service, in an effort to consolidate the company's short-form and long-form video offerings. Bing Videos allows users to search videos from MSN, Hulu, YouTube, CBS and hundreds of other sources. [...]
Revenue from cloud-computing services could reach $7.5 billion in 2009, an 18 percent jump from last year's revenue of $6.4 billion, according to research firm Gartner. [...]
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz expects her company and Microsoft to get their Web-search deal approved by federal regulators in the first quarter of 2010, she told reporters Tuesday in Singapore. [...]
Don Dodge, the Microsoft startup evangelist who was one of 800 employees laid off last week, sat down for an "exit interview" on Monday with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. [...]
Updated 3:25 p.m.: Now we've got the trifecta. Yahoo also announced Tuesday its own free wi-fi offering. It has set up free wireless Internet for all of New York City's Times Square – for a whole year.' [...]
Responding to a concern that it violated the free software license used by most open-source software, Microsoft has pulled a tool that helps netbook users install Windows 7. [...]
On the same day Microsoft released Exchange Server 2010, networking giant Cisco Systems announced Monday a new version of its own e-mail and collaboration platform. [...]
Mozilla Firefox celebrated its fifth birthday Monday, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask you readers what you like about the Web browser.' [...]
Win Rosenfeld, of Slate's The Big Money, did us all a favor and condensed 15 years of Microsoft advertising into a five-minute video (below). He takes a look at ads from Windows 95 and up, and wonders, for most campaigns, what the heck Microsoft was thinking. [...]
In its new iteration, Microsoft Exchange, which brings Outlook to the Web and mobile devices, catches up to Google's offerings by adding services such as voicemail integration. [...]
Microsoft announced Monday that it is acquiring the Teamprise business from SourceGear, allowing Microsoft to offer improved interoperability for Visual Studio. [...]
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, finished up his 2009 Microsoft College Tour at the University of Washington on Thursday. He spoke to a packed audience at Kane Hall Room 120 and demoed a few prototype technologies Microsoft Research is working on. [...]
This holiday season, more kids want a new Nintendo DSi, Sony PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii than want a Microsoft Xbox 360, according to a survey by Game Crazy. [...]
Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily beating Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other sites, according to analysis firm comScore. [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on FOX Business Network on Thursday night talking about the slowly recovering economy. But his interview with host Neil Cavuto quickly turned to Google's continuing world takeover – "I'm sure you come in peace," Cavuto said – and how Google can avoid the antitrust challenges' [...]
Ever wondered whom to credit – or whom to blame – for the "i" in Apple's iMac, iPod and iPhone? It's Ken Segall, a former creative director at Apple's main advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and now an employee at Dell. [...]
Courtesy of MicrosoftThis is the final result of more than four months of work on the default Windows 7 wallpaper. Gizmodo has a fun piece about Chuck Anderson, the 24-year-old artist who designed the log-in screen and default desktop wallpaper for Microsoft's Windows 7. [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo on Thursday, said that Windows 7 sales in Japan are "fantastic" and that the company's Japan subsidiary is its best performing. [...]
Several independent software companies and ventures are looking to acquire the soon-to-be-discontinued Office Accounting product from Microsoft, seattlepi.com has learned. [...]
Microsoft put together this short video highlighting Craig Mundie's visit to Harvard University as part of the 2009 Microsoft College Tour. (You'll need Silverlight, of course.)' [...]
The teaser commercial for the new Motorola Droid smartphone, set for release on Friday, is clear: Verizon hopes it has an iPhone-killer on its hands. With black text on a white background, a la every iPhone commercial, the Droid ad attacks everything the iPhone lacks. [...]
Tech followers are reeling at the news that Don Dodge, Microsoft's director of business development for the Emerging Business Team, was among the 800 employees cut Wednesday. [...]
There's a nice, round number: 100,000. That's how many applications Apple's App Store is now offering for the iPhone and iPod Touch, the company announced Wednesday. [...]
Silicon Valley, the home of Apple and Google, is known for its anti-Microsoft mentality. But the world's largest software company has a friend in one small California tech firm: Xobni. [...]
Microsoft is reducing the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite, the cloud-based enterprise communications platform, and expanding the service into 15 more countries. [...]
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, has kicked off the annual Microsoft College Tour, starting at Cornell University today and ending up at the University of Washington on Thursday. He's showing off cool technology demos to try and get students interested in computer science. [...]
It ain't as glamorous as Cooperstown or Springfield, but there's a CIO Hall of Fame. And it's got a new member: Microsoft Chief Information Officer Tony Scott.' [...]
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was among President Obama's guests during the first few months of his term in the Oval Office, the White House said Friday. [...]
Talk about a heckuva present. Bill Gates got a birthday salute Wednesday from Bono at the U2 concert in Vancouver, B.C. Gates apparently was in the crowd. [...]
The worldwide prevalence of computer worms, self-copying malware that spread most commonly through e-mail, more than doubled during the first half of 2009, according to a new Microsoft security report (PDF). [...]
In response to shareholders' complaints, Microsoft has changed its policy for relocating recently hired executives so the company doesn't get stuck paying for their homes during poor housing markets. [...]
