It may be August, but they're having a snowball fight in Hell right about now. The head of Microsoft's open source lab extended a very public offer to the Mozilla community to work to insure Mozilla software will run properly on Windows Vista. Sam Ramji

The latest MSDN Solution community site from Microsoft is for architects and designers interested in software-as-a-service (SaaS) development issues. The community site is a little light on content at the moment but will expand with more

Bill Gates is more Daddy Warbucks than Little Orphan Annie, but his new mantra might well be "The sun will come out tomorrow." The software-spending picture for the rest of 2006 is considerably brighter than it was three months ago, and Microsoft has

Microsoft has entered the personal security market in the way it knows best: with aggressive pricing. With its cut-rate pricing and three-user license, Windows Live OneCare is now the number two selling security suite, according to The NPD Group. OneCare

Microsoft Research has another nifty technology about to escape its labs. Photosynth can transform a group of photos online to create a 3D space on the Web for users to "fly" through via mouse. The Photosynth software analyzes a group of images for

Incorporating data obtained from observing user behavior can significantly improve the ordering of search engine top results. So-called "noisy behavior" -- information on where users click, how long they stay on sites and whether and how they reformulate

Microsoft has issued a significant refresh to Windows Defender Beta 2 (build 1347), bringing new features and functionality to the anti-spyware (define) software as it gets closer to official release. The software runs on Windows XP and is also expected

Microsoft launched Windows Live Spaces today, extending its integration across different components of Windows Live. The company is talking up Live Spaces as the next generation of its popular blogging and social networking site, MSN Spaces. But while