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Gates: Microsoft will keep Google honest

While Google has grabbed an early lead in search and Internet advertising, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged on Wednesday that his company would "keep them honest." Read more »

Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo

For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind. Read more »

Gates trots out Longhorn

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tried to win over developers in Los Angeles Monday in the U.S. as he offered the first look at Longhorn, the next version of Windows. Read more »

Gates shows off Vista in CES keynote

After months of touting Vista's geekier side, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday highlighted features designed to convince the average consumer that they need the next version of Windows. Read more »

Windows chief opens up on '7'

Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to keep silent about new products, but now in an exclusive interview, he spills the beans on Windows 7. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Microsoft to embed Live services in Windows

Microsoft's Live-branded online services don't end at the Web browser. They extend deep into Windows. Read more »

Windows Live offers Microsoft a quicker turnaround

Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes. Read more »

Microsoft plans 'Live' CRM service

Microsoft plans to launch a new hosted CRM service next year under its expanding Live brand. Read more »

Features (8)

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

Microsoft targets user/password morass

Microsoft is developing new security software it hopes will make Web services and its entire product lineup more appealing to big companies. Read more »

Red ring of death is closer than you think

It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »

Expert: User passwords getting stronger

A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace.com members seems to indicate that internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert. Read more »

What is '.NET' anyway?

Are you little confused about what .NET really is? You're not the only one. This article from Builder.com sheds some light on what .NET is and isn't. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Develop secure software at the application level

Protect your application from input overflow and underflow attacks, and from other common tactics with these development techniques. Read more »

Add XML functionality to your Flash movies

You already know that XML enables data to move easily between applications. Now see how you can integrate XML and Flash for some powerful effects. Read more »

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