Should Microsoft worry about the injunction on Word?
blog.seattlepi.com 8/14/2009 — Microsoft may have a doozy of a case on its hands after a Texas judge ruled earlier this week that it can no longer sell Word, in the ubiquitous program's current form, in the United States.

Microsoft set for open source outpouring? • The Register
theregister.co.uk 7/21/2009 — Microsoft's massive code drop to the once-hated GPL looks like the first in a series of open source moves from the Redmond software giant. Today, the company will announce a set of plug-ins for Microsoft Office for scientific discovery, chemical ...

Microsoft directly releases Linux code for first time
blog.seattlepi.com 7/20/2009 — For the first time in the company's history, Microsoft has released code for open-source Linux operating systems directly to the Linux community.

Microsoft: At least give us a new trial in Word case
blog.seattlepi.com 9/15/2009 — In a brief filed Monday to a federal appeals court, Microsoft says that "at minimum, a new trial is warranted" after a district court repeatedly threw out the software giant's defenses in i4i Inc.'s lawsuit against Word.

VMware vs. Microsoft: It's About More Than the Plumbing
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 9/4/2009 — The VMware-Microsoft battle matters because virtual machine software is a strategic technology that could shape broader markets.

Microsoft won't sue over open-source software platform
blog.seattlepi.com 7/7/2009 — In a move lauded by third-party software developers, Microsoft said Monday it will apply its Community Promise to the ECMA-334 documentation of the C# programming language and the ECMA-335 standard for .NET Common Language Infrastructure.

The 50 Best (and Worst) Moments in Windows History
maximumpc.com 10/20/2009 — In just a few days, Microsoft at long last will officially release Windows 7 to an eager public ready to put the Vista saga behind them. It's a been a long wait, particularly for those who opted to stick with XP until something better came ...

Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Azure [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 7/15/2009 — Microsoft today unveiled pricing details for its Azure services platform — possibly because customers were reluctant to build an application on the beta platform without knowing what it may one day cost them. The platform is Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft's Sharepoint Thrives in the Recession
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 8/10/2009 — Sharepoint is Microsoft's fastest growing business software product of all time-- even during the severe global economic downturn.

Judge: Microsoft's 'frivolous' actions wasted court's time
blog.seattlepi.com 7/2/2009 — No, Microsoft cannot miss a deadline for filing documents. No, Microsoft cannot submit more than 140,000 marketing documents, without an index, just two months before a trial. And no, Microsoft cannot object to a plaintiff's request based on what was obviously a typo.

Microsoft offers IE, Visual Studio patches to protect against ActiveX attacks — CNET News.com 7/28/2009
In rare out-of-cycle security update, Microsoft fixes hole that put IE users at risk of attacks via ActiveX and other controls.

Red Hat: 'We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux' — CNET News.com 7/28/2009
Red Hat's business model is really not much different from that of Web companies like Google and Facebook: all are built on open source and include proprietary software on top.

Microsoft Issues Emergency Fixes For IE, Visual Studio — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 7/28/2009
Outside of its normal patch cycle, Microsoft has released two security bulletins to fix critical flaws.

Microsoft emergency fix kills bugs in IE, Visual Studio — The Register 7/28/2009
Just in time Microsoft issued two emergency updates on Tuesday to fix critical security bugs that leave users of Internet Explorer and an untold number of third-party applications vulnerable to remote attacks that completely commandeer their ...

Microsoft rushes patches to fix 'big deal' programming flaw — Latest from Computerworld 7/28/2009
As promised, Microsoft today patched six vulnerabilities in IE and Visual Studio with its first "out-of-cycle" update since last October, when it plugged a hole later exploited by the Conficker worm.