According to an announcement by Microsoft, their new Kinect controller was hacked almost as soon as it was issued for sale. (more…)

An expert in internet browser technology has warned the industry that users of Internet Explorer 9 will soon find themselves out of date with older versions of the technology. (more…)

News reports are suggesting that Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft is undertaking legal action to sue a number of IT organisations for infringing patents which he set up in the 90s. (more…)

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine service is reported to have acquired over twelve percent of the search engine market in just one year, according to a report by independent researcher ComScore. The site’s success shows promise for future market coverage, although in relation to other search engine sites such as Yahoo and Google, there is still a long way to go before it becomes a serious competitor. (more…)

A recent technology conference in Oxford has seen Microsoft unveiling Milo, their ‘virtual human’ to a stunned audience. Milo is the creation of Peter Molyneux, a UK games designer, and has been designed to function in conjunction with Kinect, the Microsoft Xbox 360 motion controller. (more…)

Recent attacks on Windows XP’s help system are showing that there is a bug within the software which is making it vulnerable to hacking. So far, 10,000 machines have been penetrated by malicious attack, and Microsoft have admitted that they are yet to develop a fix for the flaw in the software. (more…)

Among the many announcements made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ at WWDC in San Francisco yesterday was the interesting fact that Microsoft’s Bing will become a search option on the iPhone. Microsoft is also expected to announce later in the week that Bing will also become an option on both the Windows and MAC versions of Apple’s Safari browser. (more…)

It has been a rather historic few weeks for Apple as their iPad tablet computer has now sold over two million and now it has been revealed that Apple’s market cap has beaten that of rival Microsoft for the first time in more than 20 years, according to Nasdaq share values at the close of business last week Wednesday. (more…)

As Microsoft continue the process of giving their Hotmail client a makeover they are aiming to reel in some new users as they ready an advertising campaign set to hit London this week. (more…)

Microsoft have announced that they are currently updating their free email service Hotmail, as they attempt to retain and possibly grow their market share over ever present rivals Yahoo! Mail and Google’s Gmail. (more…)

New figures released by ComScore have revealed that Yahoo! and Bing have had a good month of April as both companies have gained some ground on Google in the search engine war. (more…)

Microsoft seem to have come to the realisation that there is no competing with Social Networking giants Facebook and Twitter so they have instead announce a tool that is able to aggregate all of a users social media activity into one place. (more…)

Recent results for internet browser use read well for competitors of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Google and their Chrome browser coming off best. (more…)

In response to Google’s recent release of their updated “Google Docs” office suite program, Microsoft and Facebook have joint forces to create a rival online document- sharing service that suspiciously looks a lot like Google’s mew software. (more…)