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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...

Microsoft announced today that they will be laying off another 800 workers, on top of the 5,000 that they announced last January. Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said the cuts are being made in offices around the globe, and did...

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will buy some assets of SourceGear LLC that will bolster its software design products...Microsoft said it will acquire the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear, a privately held Champaign, Ill.-based company that provides programming applications.

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....

One surprising thing about Microsoft's recent PC operating systems is how they reflect the mood of the time, not just in Redmond but across the U.S. Like a popular song or movie, Windows Vista echoed the confused and security-obsessed state...

Police in the east Seattle suburb of Redmond say the fully clothed body of a man believed to be about 60 has been pulled from Lake Sammamish. A resident reported seeing the body floating just offshore Wednesday morning. The King...