Microsoft's latest monthly Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes came with a little something extra today -- the company's first rankings of how likely each vulnerability is to be exploited by an attacker. The update thus marks not just a large patch count

So much for codenames. Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, today announced that Microsoft's upcoming operating system is to be officially named after its codename, Windows 7. The news was posted on Microsoft's official

Microsoft's .NET framework on Linux is getting a big boost today with the official release of Novell's Mono 2.0. The Mono 2.0 release is Novell's open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET platform. With the latest version, the gap between the two

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has adopted a change in strategy with developer tools announcements. Now, it's providing details in a slow, steady fashion rather than the "fire hose" method of providing a lot of information at once, as with prior

Microsoft has confirmed that attendees of its two forthcoming developer conferences get an early version of Windows 7, the next version of its desktop client. The company made the news official on a blog for the Professional Developer Conference (PDC)

A quick glance at the empire that Google built by selling small text ads alongside search results is all the proof you need to know there's a pile of money in search. But could it be that advertisers give search a little more credit than it deserves

Visual Studio 2008 is barely a year old and already Microsoft is discussing the next generation of its flagship developer toolkit, currently titled Visual Studio 10. A lengthy blog post by a VS program manager sheds light on where the company is going.

Publicly, Microsoft has said Windows 7, the successor operating system to the firm's much maligned Windows Vista, will not ship until early 2010, but its internal calendar has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date, has learned. Also, Microsoft will