Microsoft is to learn the hard way that “a deal is a deal,” at least in the eyes of the European Union, by being forced to swallow a massive fine for breaching earlier promises made with the 27-nation bloc. The software giant has been fined 561 million euros ($731 million) by European authorities for falling
Microsoft has pushed out a security update for Windows to seal a hole exploited by the sophisticated Flame malware. The update prevents Flame or other bits of malware spoofing Microsoft certificates to phish, spoof content, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks, Microsoft said on Sunday. By cracking an old cryptography algorithm, Flame can appear to be a
Microsoft’s volume customers are bracing for a potentially huge price increase for software when the company adjusts European prices to bring them into line with the Euro. Although Microsoft says most customers can expect a single digit percentage increase, volume clients are predicting a much larger increase as Microsoft looks to standardise its pricing to
Microsoft has taken the wraps off the next generation of its Windows operating system. Windows 8 is designed to run on tablet computers, as well as desktop and laptop PCs. The software, which is due to be released in 2012 will work on the popular ARM-designed low power processors for the first time. Microsoft has
Sep 12, 2011 01:16 pm | IDG News Service by Agam Shah Intel presents plans at IDF, while ARM chips are featured by vendors at Microsoft BUILD Intel and challenger ARM are set for a PC showdown this week as competition heats up to redefine the laptop and reverse the sagging fortunes of the PC
By Richard Waters Microsoft is set to counter the technology revolution triggered by Apple’s iPad, with the unveiling on Tuesday of software intended to turn touchscreen computing into something more familiar to the world’s 1bn PC users. The software will be shown off at a Microsoft conference for software developers in California. Persuading developers to
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When Microsoft failed to announce any Mac software for Windows Phone 7 at its event on Monday, many people assumed that meant that there would be no way to directly load content from an Apple computer onto the new devices. However, that will not be the case. “Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public
Microsoft has broken its previous patch record, set in August, with a mammoth update fixing 49 flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer and a range of other software. Six of the 49 patches are rated critical and Microsoft recommends that the Internet Explorer patch MS10-071, which fixes seven flaws (three of which are public), and the
On Wednesday, at the RSA Conference 2010 in London, Microsoft revealed that it had cured 6.5 million botnet-infected computers during the second quarter of 2010, twice the number identified and removed during the same period in 2009. Microsoft has identified 2.2 million computers compromised by botnet malware in the U.S. during the second quarter of
