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U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it was working on preventing a repeat of the type of outage that hit its Bing Internet search platform Thursday. Users experienced widespread outages of the Bing search engine for about 30 minutes Thursday...

Microsoft has released "Security Essentials," their free antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-malware offering. Microsoft has replaced their previous product, Windows OneCare, with Security Essentials (SE). One of the major changes is while OneCare had an annual subscription free, SE is free to...

Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use. Microsoft Corp. unveiled the site Wednesday at http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com....

In an attempt to put the bad press of Windows Vista behind them, Microsoft is hoping to promote the release on Windows 7 with some good buzz. One of the ways they are doing this is by having people host...

After years of wrangling to avoid a Microsoft takeover , Yahoo! has finally agreed to a partnership with the software giant. The pot was sweetened this spring by the launch of Microsoft’s search engine known as Bing. It has done...

The partnership of the century is close at hand. There are closing talks that could make or break Microsoft. Nothing is written in stone yet but it looks like Yahoo and Microsoft could tie their resources together in order to...

The HIV virus is so good at cleverly mutating itself that the drugs designed to destroy it more often become useless against it. The whole game of HIV's survival revolves around mutation; however, the latest discovery is that scientists have...