"Except for gaming, it is 'game over' for Microsoft in the consumer market," Mark Anderson of the Strategic News Service, which attempts to predict technology trends, told The New York Times on Dec. 10. "It's time to declare Microsoft a loser in...

Yes, the above title was not some sort of catastrophic typing error on my part. In addition to having to deal with the likes of Google and Apple, now Microsoft finds itself taking flak from another front: the French military. (There are so many...

Last week, Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. were reportedly in talks over an agreement that would see News Corp.'s Websites delisted from Google search in exchange for payment by Microsoft. Subsequent articles suggested that those initial...

Microsoft refused to confirm this for me directly, but according to an unnamed source in The New York Times, Redmond is on the verge of settling its dispute with the European Commission (the EU's law-enforcement body and antitrust watchdog) over the...

A lot of news reports over the past few days have commented about how Microsoft's new Bing Maps Beta represents a 'roided-up attempt by Redmond to challenge Google Maps head-on. As my colleague Clint Boulton pointed out on the Google Watch blog,...