In the hard-bitten world of mergers and acquisitions, "no" doesn't always mean "no." Sometimes it means "not yet." Monday afternoon, Microsoft responded to Yahoo's formal rejection of its acquisition bid in a brief statement

Microsoft announced the availability of an updated version of its Office Live Small Business service Monday, and made most of the services free. The announcement came during chairman Bill Gates' keynote at the company's Office System Developer Conference

Microsoft Tuesday announced that the latest revision of its premier development suite – Visual Studio 2008, or VS2008 for short – is now generally available. Developed under the code name "Orcas," the package was actually completed

Windows Vista is only a year old this week, yet reported sightings of an early alpha version of the next release of Windows have been circulating on the Web for the past week, prompting assertions by some that Vista has been a market failure. A handful

Similar to a stash of weapons a player might rack up during an online adventure game, high technology companies for more than two decades have racked up as many patents as possible. Patents can come in handy, for instance, as a defense – or an offense

For years, the poster child of the anti-open source movement was Microsoft, with its proprietary software model. In recent years, however, the company has changed its views, starting an open source software lab to work on interoperability issues.

For Web developers and surfers who discovered that Internet Explorer 7.0 "broke" some (or many) of their favorite Web sites, there may be good news. Now, Microsoft is working to avoid that problem in version 8 by letting Web site developers signal