Microsoft is rushing to patch a newly discovered flaw in its Internet Explorer web browser, that has left millions of users potentially at risk.
After 13 years as one of the world’s most widely used operating systems, Microsoft is finally ending support for Windows XP.
ZeroAcces, one of the world’s largest for-hire botnets has been disrupted in a joint operation between Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the FBI, and led by Microsoft.
Search engine companies have agreed to blocking 100,000 search terms related to child abuse to make such images harder to find online.
About a year and a half ago, we wrote about “Rockstar Consortium,” a shell company set up by Apple and Microsoft (and a few other companies), in which they placed many of the patents they received when they outbid Google to get Nortel’s patents. We noted at the time that one of the reasons regulators let Apple, Microsoft, RIM and others team up to buy these patents without it being an antitrust concern was that they promised that all the patents would be able to be licensed on “reasonable terms.” Except… once they handed them off to Rockstar, that company’s CEO, John Veschi, noted that this promise “does not apply to us.”