Carlsbad (CA) - He may be stepping down from day to day duties at Microsoft, but Bill Gates can still hold a crowd. Read more

Earlier this week the US District Court in Seattle upheld an eBay user’s right to sell used software(Warning PDF). An on going feud between an eBay seller and Autodesk was put to rest this week. Timothy Vernon has been listing auctions for the resale of Read more

Security software vendor, PC Tools Software, has issued a report stating Microsoft Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000, an operating system over eight-years-old. However, Windows Vista is 37 percent more secure than previous gen Read more

There is an interesting feature in Mac OS X we haven't known about so far: A user Read more

Redmond (WA) - Microsoft this week released the first widely available preview version of its Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the software giant's latest advancement in the emerging robotics industry. Read more

Chicago (IL) - Speculations about a possible standard approval started spreading on Monday and Microsoft announced the ratification of OOXML yesterday. Read more

San Jose (CA) - Adobe announced today that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a move that is seen as a triumph for supporters of open-source platforms. Read more

Richmond (VA) - Microsoft and Novell are currently known as partners, but an anti-trust lawsuit will soon severely test that "marriage". Read more

Canada-based multimedia software provider Corel will transfer is Minnesota R&D operations in the US to Corel Taiwan, according to Jeremy Liang, president of Corel Taiwan. Read more

The SCO Group plans to emerge from Chapter 11 soon and revealed that not only will it modify its business strategy towards mobile products, it will also replace chief executive officer Darl McBride and pick up the Linux and Unix license lawsuits against IBM and Novell. Read more

Microsoft today continued its online ping-pong game with Google and launched "Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes" in the growing software-as-a-service (SAAS) arena. A trial of the beta is available for free, but Microsoft will be charging subscription fees when the service goes online in the second half of the year. Read more

As Microsoft struggles to gain a stronger foothold in the Web advertising game, its research and development arms aren’t sitting still. The company’s adCenter Labs provided a sneak peek of some of its next-generation advertising concepts Tuesday at an Read more

Santa Clara (CA) - Sun is entering the database market and has agreed to purchase MySQL AB, developer of the popular SQL database management system SQL. Sun will shell out about $1 billion for the open source software and integrate it into its own soft Read more

Reversing its initial decision to keep the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 release candidate restricted to private testers, Microsoft has made the near-complete upgrade available for download to the general public. Although still not a final version of Vi Read more

Oslo (Norway) - Opera, the other browser company, released version 9.25 of their browser late last night. Opera has been benchmarked and shown to have the fastest Javascript execution of any major browser. Opera has mouse gesturing, tabs, a speed dial Read more