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An Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany has suffered the ultimate brand humiliation: being plastered with a Windows logo. The store is currently under construction and doesn’t officially open until the end of September, but a group of motivated PC-loving pranksters pretending to be construction workers were able to slap Windows emblem on the side of the building (although it was upside down). The vandals, a group called WAV Collective, didn’t have to… Read More

You may have read yesterday about some comments made by an Intel exec about how the four planned ARM versions of Windows 8 won't support “legacy” apps, which is to say they won't be backwards compatible with applications from earlier Windows operating systems. Microsoft has now responded with an official statement calling the Intel comments “factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading,” no surprise given… Read More

I’ve been following Microsoft for over two decades, have cataloged a number of major mistakes and ranked them over time. Against most of them, I have names of people who mostly are no longer with the company. One of my major aggravations in the 1990s was that many of Microsoft’s mistakes were first made by IBM, and last decade it was Microsoft mistakes that were made by Google. For an analyst, this kind of gets old – like watching a bad… Read More

Apple is prepared to fight for the trademark rights to “App Store”. On Monday, the Cupertino-based company filed paperwork with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), challenging Microsoft's claim that “App Store” was too generic to qualify for trademark status, according to Politico. Apple didn't pull any punches, either, accusing Microsoft of blatant hypocrisy in challenging the trademark. Microsoft,… Read More

Microsoft has issued a new security advisory, warning the public of a security loophole that could expose the 900 million or so users of Internet Explorer to risks of information theft and, possibly, the risk of a total machine hijacking. The vulnerability is found in all versions of Windows, but only appears to manifest itself through Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. The protocol handler MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML… Read More

On Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed the existence of a vulnerability present in several versions of the Windows operating system. If exploited, the glitch could leave users' computers open to being fully controlled by an outside attacker. The exploit, first reported on December 15 at a security conference in South Korea, takes advantage of the way Windows' graphics rendering engine processes certain thumbnail images. The booby-trapped… Read More

Microsoft is set to announce a new version of Windows that will be powered by ARM's chip technology, according to a Bloomberg report. The new operating system will be used to run various battery-powered devices that will include tablet computers and smartphones, according to two anonymous sources cited in the article. Microsoft will reportedly announce the new OS at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. If it pans out, it would… Read More

Microsoft today announced a big boost to its net profits for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year. Strong consumer demand for the latest versions of mainstay products Windows and Office led to a quarterly net income of $5.41 billion for the company, a 50 percent increase over the same period a year prior. For the quarter, which ended on Sept. 30, Microsoft also reported revenues up 25 percent to the tune $16.2 billion. Last year the company… Read More

There will be a total of 10 security updates tomorrow for Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday, the company has said in its security bulletin. Three vulnerabilities in Windows (affecting Windows 2000, XP, XP Professional edition, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008, Office 2000, 2003, 2007 and XP, and Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for the Mac) could let attackers elevate privileges, while another moderate vulnerability in Windows could enable… Read More

In December of 2005, the housing boom that began a decade earlier continued its crazy uphill ride, seemingly oblivious to a variety of red flags appearing across the country. By October of 2007, that boom had revealed itself as one very big, very hurtful bubble, and home prices were sliding steeply downhill. Yet you wouldn't know it by looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, as it obliviously surged past the 14000 mark for the… Read More