A report has surfaced that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)   will continue to offer Windows Mobile 6.5 even after it releases WinMo 7 next year.
The story, published in the Digitimes blog on Wednesday, quoted unnamed sources at handset makers in Taiwan.
Microsoft has been losing market share steadily in the mobile operating systems market, according to Gartner’s (NYSE: [...]

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The antitrust police are after Microsoft again, but this time in Russia. Unlike other antitrust investigations involving Windows, the Russian case is focusing on Microsoft’s phase-out of XP, rather than bundling of various components into the base operating system.
The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced on June 4 it had opened an investigation of Microsoft. [...]

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Ask a Mac OS X fan or a Windows fan what the difference is between the two operating systems, and the short answer might be something like, “The difference is, the one I use doesn’t stink.” That response may underscore the emotional pull an operating system has with a particular sort of computer user, but [...]

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Microsoft announced Thursday that it will start pushing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to customers this month.
In an entry to the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) blog, Cecilia Cole, a Microsoft program manager, said that the service pack would be posted to the update service in April. She did not name an exact date, [...]

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Microsoft’s long hold on power in the software industry has depended on its solid grip on developers. Programmers have written uncountable desktop and client/server applications over the decades that have inextricably linked independent software developers and corporate IT shops to Microsoft. Now the company aims to do the same for cloud-based software by luring loyal [...]

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