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• Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

  By Tim Greene | 25 May, 2012 14:35

  While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.

• Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

  With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

• Microsoft clarifies Ballmer's claims of massive Windows 8 adoption

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 May, 2012 18:46

  Reports earlier this week that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted unprecedented sales of Windows 8 were wrong on multiple counts, Microsoft and independent analysts have agreed.

• Motorola Mobility has infringed Microsoft patent, says Munich court

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 May, 2012 15:24

  Google-owned Motorola Mobility has infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging, according to a ruling in the Munich regional court, which also dismissed a second case related to a localization patent.

• Revisiting RDP, discovering ReactOS, and finding Mindjet

  By Mark Gibbs | 23 May, 2012 20:25

  A second look at Microsoft's RDP client, considers a replacement for Windows XP, and delves into "Mind Mapping"

• Windows 8 puts end to endless reboots

  By Gregg Keizer | 23 May, 2012 18:48

  Microsoft yesterday promised that a feature it's added to Windows 8 will put a stop to endless reboots.

• Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

  By Loek Essers | 23 May, 2012 10:31

  Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday Grok: Microsoft’s browser lockout is to be pitied more than despised

  By Andrew Birmingham | 23 May, 2012 10:21

  Here’s an idea. Let’s tweak Windows so it only works properly with Internet Explorer. Is Microsoft up to its old tricks again? Manipulating software markets? Monopolising outcomes? More importantly, does anyone care anymore? Its moment passed, long ago. And the dead rise not yet.

• Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56

  Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

• Analysis: Microsoft - Too old and too big to survive?

  By Mark Gibbs | 22 May, 2012 03:44

  What browser do you prefer? According to w3schools.com, which tracks browser usage of people interested in Web technologies and hence more likely to try alternative tools, as of April this year, 38.3 per cent of us preferred Google's Chrome, 35.8 per cent went with Mozilla's Firefox, and 18.3 per cent were still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (Apple's Safari and Opera were trailing way behind). Over the last year IE and Firefox have seen their shares decrease and only Chrome has gained share.

• Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software

  By Jon Gold | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Silver Peak today upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors.

• Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users

  By John Ribeiro | 21 May, 2012 17:04

  So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users interested in joining the site.

• Microsoft wins smartphone patent dispute

  By AAP | 21 May, 2012 09:51

  A commission has sided with Microsoft by moving to ban the import of Android-powered Motorola smartphones into the United States based on patent infringement complaints by the software colossus.

• ITC bans import of infringing Motorola Android devices

  By Cameron Scott | 19 May, 2012 09:32

  The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an import ban Friday on any Android devices from Motorola that infringe one of Microsoft's patents.