24 Feb
Posted by timothy on Sunday February 22, @06:50PM
from the sorry-for-any-inconvenience dept.
An anonymous reader writes “The large print giveth, the small print taketh away. Microsoft, which recently laid off 1400 employees, is now claiming that some of those lucky schmoes were inadvertently overpaid on their severance package.
18 Feb
Cybercriminals are exploiting a critical hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was patched a week ago by Microsoft, security firm Trend Micro warned on Tuesday.
13 Feb
Posted by timothy on Thursday February 12, @06:02PM
from the sic-the-french-air-force-on-’em dept.
alphadogg writes “The spreading Conficker/Downadup worm is now viewed as such a significant threat that it’s inspired the formation of a posse to stop it, with Microsoft leading the charge by offering a $250,000 reward to bring the Conficker malware bad [...]
4 Feb
Posted on Tue Feb 3, 2009 5:13PM EST
- For many years now, Microsoft has offered a “starter edition” of Windows aimed at first-time PC buyers in emerging markets. Though low-cost, the starter version has limitations such as only working on low-end processors, smaller screen resolutions and a cap on the number of programs that can [...]
4 Feb
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Apple hurled a legendary marketing sledgehammer at I.B.M. personal computers that ran Microsoft software. During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple ran a television ad that depicted those machines as instruments of Big Brotherish conformity. The ad was shown just once, but people still talk about it.
Today, Apple is still producing ads that [...]
4 Feb
Skype 4.0 for Windows Updates VOIP
By Roy Mark
2009-02-03
The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth manager, a new audio codec that improves call quality and easier setup, Skype says.
Skype released Feb. 3 its latest version for Microsoft Windows. Touting full-screen video calling and [...]
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