Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted this week that his company sick brand has value to users, rather than rival brands, while at the same time, admits that he is seeing a lot more than Apple iPads deployed in the world would like real. In a sitting with CNet News.com ‘s Ina Fried, Ballmer was asked [...]

This week, Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) offers a new look at its 50,000 square-foot data center in Redmond, Washington, consolidating servers in the research unit of the technology giant and laboratories. The announcement follows reports in July that Microsoft is building a data center in Brazil to support the company’s software, plus services strategy, expected to open [...]

Despite making promises last week to fix a flaw in its Internet Information Server, many analysts say is unlikely that Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) will be able to prepare the fix in time the release of Tuesday’s regular monthly patch . Last Tuesday, the software giant issued a security warning for official error in three previous versions [...]

Can’t wait to get your hands on Microsoft’s new Zune HD? Beginning today, you can pre-order the device, and, later this month, you’ll be ready to a preview at it, too, Microsoft announces. Starting today, you can reserve your own Zune HD online with Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, or the Microsoft Store in expectation of [...]

When Microsoft employed Qi Lu to run its internet business last week, the company trumpeted the indisputable fact that Lu holds twenty patents. Patents are a long way from rare at Microsoft–many developers and analysts hold them–but the web business has usually been controlled by folk with a business or selling background. That has not [...]