Software giant, Microsoft, has developed a startup accelerator program for its partner companies that will provide them with special access to its internal resources. The program is designed to support software development and assist market visibility, and is a way for Microsoft to help itself.

Bill Gates, chairman of the Redmond, Washington headquartered, Microsoft, said Microsoft will dramatically increase its investment in research and development (R&D), at the opening speech of the Boao Forum for Asia on southern China`s Hainan island.

An executive in Microsoft says organizations that will switch to Internet based telephone systems (VoIP) working on the company`s software will make billions of dollars in revenues.

Thomas Rubin, an associate general counsel at Microsoft, issued a full-frontal attack on Google`s copyright practices, in remarks he prepared for a conference of the Association of American Publishers, with the full version of these remarks published on Microsoft website.

Apple has called on its costumers not to upgrade to Microsoft`s new Vista operating system; for fear that the new system may not properly work with ITunes. ITunes is a program developed by apple and is used by IPod owners to organize and manage their music.

Microsoft has initiated a viral marketing campaign in form of a puzzle in order to promote its new operating Windows Vista, Microsoft`s first major operating system upgrade since it released Windows XP, in 2001. The viral marketing campaign, dubbed: Vanishing Point, is a "large-scale online and off-line collaborative puzzle game," Microsoft said.

Microsoft has began using user surfing habits and other personal information to for advertising purposes, through the use of cookies, which are cached on the users system, Microsoft is able to link between personal information that users supply

In a promotional campaign gone bad, Microsoft decided to send off Acer Ferrari 5000 lop tops to influential bloggers, on the primes that these bloggers, who write about what they do, will put up a posting on the lap tops performance and its operating system Microsoft`s Vista

Microsoft announced in the past that the company will support the online distribution of news and blogs using the RSS standard, but now listed two RSS-related patents for its applications

Computer security companies and programmers have found substantial in Microsoft`s newest operating system, Vista.

A new "strategic alliance" has taken form in China between the software giant Microsoft and the Chinese search portal Baidu

Redmond`s software giant Microsoft announced last week that testing of a new computer server application that allows corporate customers to make internet-based phone calls has commenced

Microsoft was hoping for a big bang when releasing their portable audio player, the Zune, however with lackluster customer interest, the software giant is tuning down expectations

Although Google ran into some legal trouble with its new Google Books service, when authors took the company to court saying that allowing users to search through books and view specific parts of them is akin to content piracy, there is someone that believes that new service might bare some fruits after all

As if there aren`t enough hazards to be careful from when roaming online space, Microsoft announced that an new unpatched memory corruption in its famed word processor software, Microsoft Word, has been detected and that it might be used for attacking PCs

An interesting legal battle erupted between United States software giant Microsoft and the Indian tribe of Mapuche that is based in Chile

Software giant, Microsoft, takes responsibility over the internet and moves one step forward with its Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative that began in March.

Microsoft`s new version of Internet Explorer is already available, and with the new Windows Vista rounding the corner, the fight over the browsing market will emerge in full scale once again.

Some people found Microsoft`s announcement regarding Vista surprising, as we are used to delays and rescheduling. However, this time Microsoft is right on track and the new operating system is "Done"

With Microsoft`s personal media player, Zune, hitting the market on November 14th, the software giant plans to aggressively takeover the portable music world.

In response to growing competition between the major players in the internet arena, Microsoft has announced the launching of a new feature for its Live Search mapping service.

Although Microsoft`s new operating system won`t be released before January 2007, the software giant plans to make the best of the upcoming holiday season. Christmas time is known for its accompanied shopping craze, and Microsoft is not going to miss the party.

Google, world leader in search engine platforms, keeps pressuring Microsoft to allow users full freedom in choosing their favorite search tool.

Webmasters everywhere will be happy to know that Novell and Microsoft have decided to join forces in order to create open source solutions on Windows and Linux interoperability

The world?s leading producer and manufacturer of software, Microsoft, released the new Windows Media Player 11, the most current version of its popular software which enables users to view music and video along with other media files.

Microsoft, the software giant known all over the world by computer users and webmasters alike, has introduced a voluntary way for users to ensure that they only use licensed and legal copies of Microsoft Office products.

According to WebCEO, the company?s team is offering a report that displays how the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 has changed over the years. The report is based on statistics analysis for over 50 million visitors to more than 265,000 websites from January through September of this year.

If you think that the only place you connect Microsoft to is your office, then get ready to an invasion into your living room couch. For the past decade, this major corporation has been making plans for penetrating the television market.

Microsoft seems to be blocking its competitors`security products, so they have said. McAfee and Symantec, the largest security software sellers, attack Microsoft for applying some changes to its Vista operational system.

Last Friday the Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC2) was revealed by Microsoft to technical testers. The new build, as it was promised, will very soon be available to all users.