You can't go backwards or forwards with SP3, truly 'screwed' down.

The inability to downgrade to IE6 after installing XP SP3 was by design, said Maliouta, because the service pack includes newer versions of the old browser's files. If Microsoft had allowed users to revert back to the pre-SP3 version of…

Wall Street Journal has reported that Microsoft and Facebook are in talks with each other over possible merger.
A Microsoft source claimed that its financial team is in contact with Facebooks team to see if they are willing to sell or not. The talk is in early stage and no time frame could be given for the deal.

A Microsoft source claimed that its financial team is in contact with Facebook’s team to see if they are willing to sell or not. The talk is in early stage and no time frame could be given for the deal.

Yesterday was like Christmas for securities lawyers and activist Yahoo shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walked away from his $40-plus billion offer on Saturday; shares plunged on Monday; and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was widely criticized for acting out of self interest — and not on the behalf of shareholders.

Jackson, 35, isn't a longtime Yahoo shareholder, though. Nor has he ever managed a publicly traded company. During the last dot-com bubble, he was in school. In fact, it's hard to see what practical experience he has that could be…

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- Greatly improved sources refresh time.
- Added packages filtering for easy searches.
- Packages list is now separated by first letters for easier navigation.
- Package description field text height is now dynamic.

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Among Fortune 1000 techs, Microsoft remains on top, taking in $14.1 billion in earnings last year.

In part two of our special three-part feature, Peter Bright digs deep into Win32, .NET, and Vista and discusses how it all got to be so “shambolic.” When it comes to nurturing developers, Windows has become a disaster zone.

So .NET could have been a step into the 21st century. It could have been, but it wasn't. Technically, .NET was fine. The virtual machine infrastructure was pretty sound, the performance was reasonable, and C# was an adequate (if not…

Audi, the luxury unit of Volkswagen (VOWG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), sees great opportunities in electric cars and will offer automobiles with no exhaust emissions within ten years, its top executive told a German weekly. Rupert Stadler told Welt am Sonntag in an interview published on Sunday that he expects diesel and battery technology to dom

Asked if Audi was not lagging domestic rivals Mercedes (DAIGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) and BMW (BMWG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) in the development of lithium-ion batteries that are more powerful than batteries used now…

Microsofts dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoos shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?

Google, a company with a monopoly in search, should have just stood by and watched the trains either come together or pass each other on the rails. Instead, they immediately started talking with its competitor about how to thwart a deal with the…

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Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft’s main reason for pursing the deal in the first place.

Under this reported scenario, News Corp. would contribute the Internet's top social network, MySpace.com, and some cash in a Yahoo takeover. The proposed deal would put three of the Web's most popular sites — Yahoo, MySpace and…

Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. Its clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why? This is an important question for Microsoft since emerging markets are key to sales growth.

Before Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft’s strategy was to ignore the pirates: sell to the corporations, let everyone else copy it. Now regular people are growing third arms and paying for Windows licenses. Fair enough:…

Microsoft is withdrawing its offer for Yahoo after talks between the two companies broke down on Saturday, a source told CNET News.com on Saturday.

The move leaves both companies in a tenuous spot. Although Microsoft has said it has a strategy to take on Google without Yahoo, Yahoo represented the biggest opportunity for Microsoft to gain scale against its rival, which has a much larger…

Microsoft may have inadvertently disclosed a potential Microsoft backdoor for law enforcement earlier this week. … Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet buster ' the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber criminals a clue on how to thwart it? … People need to read between the lines.

We detect at the IP level based on a number of static and logic characteristics. We can analyze around 200 million spam messages a month from 80,000 partner domains and roll an average 25 million entry DNS zone. Once we release our zombie firewall…

A reader of a site dedicated to Zune news has posted photos of what are claimed to be new features at Zune’s Marketplace, including flash animation and a new video section.

UPDATE: Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet e-mailed me and said she wonders if the photos found on Zunerama are tied to “the coming-out party for Zune VideoX” she has written about lately. Foley has a source who told her that Zune…