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Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the internet's addressing system.

Microsoftset the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo's board of directors yesterday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company - but only if a new board was appointed first.

Why don't more people use OpenOffice, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office? Microsoft has spent years and dollars engineering creative ways to keep people using its costly software and preventing them from switching to OpenOffi...

MICROSOFT'S Xbox 360 has become the cheapest next-generation games console following price cuts across the Xbox range.

Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, say people familiar with the discuss...

Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is buying semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google

Yahoo is offering its full account of the company's recent acquisition talks with Microsoft.

People always ask what I really think about Bill Gates. Sometimes it's a test, to see if I share their view that he's the scourge of techville...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a ...