Microsoft keelhauls customers in WGA snafu
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What hope then for Vista toughness? Some, or maybe many, Microsoft volume license customers were told on Monday and Tuesday that their PCs were running pirated software.â¦
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Hardware promos undermine margins Microsoftâs damp squid launch of Vista has left PC World with an over-stock headache, parent DSGi confirmed today.â¦
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Outages put a crimp in access at PayPal, Gawker. Also: Microsoft's latest security warnings.
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XBox Live Video buckles Thursday and Friday under the weight of countless subscribers. Microsoft issues a mea culpa. In Gear Factor.
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Redmond forces resource-hogging search app on reluctant admins Something seems to have gone horribly wrong in an untold number of IT departments on Wednesday after Microsoft installed a resource-hogging search application on machines company-wide, even though administrators had configured systems not to use the program.â¦
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Virtual intruder disarmed In what might be described as a "Friendly Fire" incident, Microsoft software has identified a copy of Windows as a hostile operating system - belonging to enemy Apple forces.â¦
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Everyone knows that Microsoft is probably the single most powerful software company in the world. How strange it is therefore, to discover that the mighty giant is being shamed by a group of geek-like programmers
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Business & money: Microsoft is at the centre of an embarrassing row over an attempt by a lobby firm strongly linked with the Seattle computer giant to rally opposition against rival Google's proposed acqusition of internet marketing firm DoubleClick.
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Another lawsuit and a big technical delay for Longhorn. Misery, thy name is Microsoft.
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Previously satisfied users say the newest release of the software is causing a variety of problems, including an issue where the software won't load at startup. Microsoft says it is looking into at least one issue, but said overall the number of problems
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Criticized for a program that only provided some of its largest customers with warnings on security problems in its products, Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft's Surface experimental touch interface was on display at CES and the hordes of gawkers made it hard to get close.
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Spreadsheet with limited data on more than 5,000 wireless subscribers was accidentally e-mailed to other customers.
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Urgent Exchange upgrade Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent upgrade.â¦
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Microsoft did a turnabout late yesterday, admitting that enterprise customers' PCs were indeed being force-fed the Windows XP desktop search tool. Users were not amused, nor were they in a forgiving mood.
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A false positive in company's antivirus products leads to quarantine or deletion of some Windows users' copies of explorer.exe.
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Tycho:  I don't know whose fault it is exactly, mine or theirs, but I won't be installing Vista anytime soon.  I would like some crazy shit to happen when I minimize something don't get me wrong.  I want my windows to go Waja-wajow(!) is possible.  But if there's a great reason to "trade horses midstream" or whatever the going metaphor is I haven't discovered it.