In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience… Tweet This Post

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage today in San Francisco to extol how the company’s new slate of products — Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server2010 — can help businesses save money and increase productivity as corporate IT budgets remain tight. The phrase Ballmer repeated throughout the talk was “with [...]

This is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, Mobile, Search and Developers… Tweet This Post

Stepping up an effort to unmask online attackers responsible for a wave of malicious advertisements aimed at Windows PC users, Microsoft on Thursday filed suit in Washington state Superior Court against the unknown individuals behind five companies that it alleges distributed “malvertising” that entangled its customers in fake-antivirus scams and infected them with other malicious [...]

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10… Tweet This Post

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo (YHOO) to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) that Karl Siebrecht (pictured here), the former President of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as President and COO… Tweet This Post

Twitter has already had repercussions in the courtroom. Now it has had them at Microsoft’s annual company meeting as well. Employee tweets from the gathering Thursday revealed that we may see a major update to the company’s Bing search engine as early as next week… Tweet This Post

Microsoft has launched a nonprofit organization with the aim of encouraging commercial software vendors to participate in open source software development. Microsoft has provided the organization, which is called the CodePlex Foundation, with $1 million in funding to get it started… Tweet This Post

The U.S. Department of Justice has furthered its investigation into the proposed search engine deal between Microsoft and Yahoo by asking both companies to provide more information. The two companies received an additional request for information earlier this week as expected, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans told CNET News… Tweet This Post

Microsoft started airing commercials by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system last night. In this spot, a young girl makes a slideshow with goofy photos and quotes from blogs praising Windows 7. It’s cute, and carries two messages: People like the changes we’ve made since Vista, and even this young [...]

Kai-Fu Lee became famous in 2005 when the engineering whiz left Microsoft, where he had created Microsoft Research Asia, to head search giant Google’s operation in China. Microsoft sued, charging that he violated a noncompete agreement, but eventually settled. This time, as Lee leaves Google, he’s sure to avoid a lawsuit, because he’s starting his [...]