Microsoft Offers Holiday Gifts

The company's delayed release of the Vista operating system and the Office 2007 productivity suite likely lost OEM PC makers some considerable holiday sales, so Microsoft is trying to salvage the season for them by offering discounted upgrades for their two forthcoming products.

Digg Hunts For News Corp Treasure

The popular user-contributed news site has been chatting with News Corp about the potential for being acquired, but the media power may not want to dig as deeply into its pockets as Digg would like.

Microsoft Search SEO Tips

A post at the WebmasterWorld discussion forum brought up the subject of search optimization tips for Microsoft’s search engine, Live.com. The information is fairly standard across the board, but it is good to see this information made public. The question becomes, does anyone care enough about Live.com to implement these attributes (although, if you’ve optimized […]

Oracle Linux

At "Larry Ellison's Linux nears release", Ashlee Vance is unsure why Oracle would want its own Linux distro.

Microsoft Agrees to Settle Antitrust Lawsuits

Microsoft will distribute vouchers valuing $37.8 million to Arkansas and $224 million to Wisconsin as part of two proposed class-action lawsuit settlements. The vouchers will be redeemable by residents of the respective states to obtain free software and hardware.