Microsoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popular Excel application caused non-English text to appear on some users' screens.

Microsoft on Tuesday started rolling out its new MSN homepage, a revamp that includes integration with social networks like Twitter and Facebook, a more prominent Bing presence, and more emphasis on local news.

Microsoft is trying to drum up support for its interfaces at this week's Techfest internal science fair.

Microsoft has announced that its UK pricing for Office 2010 will mirror developments in the United States, where pricing has been reduced to entice more users.

Software monopolist Microsoft's Windows 7 Activation Technologies (WAT) feature intended to combat unauthorised copies of the OS will contact Microsoft every 90 days to keep you in line.

Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world. And its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)

Microsoft hopes to vamp up its HealthVault and other health services by making it easier for users to do everything from track their caloric intake to count their steps using their cell phones, according to researchers at a Microsoft forum on health care technology in Beijing.

Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue -- but here's why apocalypse is more likely.

Great free software doesn't necessarily mean open source.

Microsoft has announced that it's making available a bit of software that'll let you overlay your face onto an avatar. It's called, bizarrely, the "Windows Experience Pack".

Various sources have pointed not too long ago towards the possibility that the first external test builds of Windows 7 SP1 will be delivered very soon, and it seems that this will pan out earlier than expected.

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are teaming up to create a tablet PC, sources said, becoming the biggest names to venture into a nascent but potentially competitive market.

Microsoft is pushing desktop virtualization as a way of making Windows 7 play nicely with old applications, especially those written for Windows XP. So now that the technology has been "blessed" by Microsoft, can the industry brace for a desktop-virtualization boom?

Microsoft says it will change code in Word 2007 to avoid having an injunction halt sales, after a three-judge panel upholds an earlier patent verdict against it.

Microsoft is being sued by a small company in the US over the choice of name for itssearch engine. Bing! Information Design, which is based in St Louis, Missouri, has launched a legal action and is seeking damages.

Plurk, a popular social networking site in Asia, claims that Microsoft China has ripped off their service by "blatant theft of code, design, and UI elements". In a company blog posting a Plurk employee states "we were first tipped off by high profile bloggers and Taiwanese users of our community that Microsoft had just launched a new Chinese microblogging service that looked eerily similar to Plurk.

A new scareware package tries to sell bogus antivirus software to its victims using an apparent endorsement of the software by Microsoft.

Microsoft's latest OS is barely even two months oldb, yet early adopters have given Windows 7 the thumbs up. We look at why they're happy and any issues they've got.

Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy. But once the kinks are worked out, customers are liking Windows 7 a lot more than Vista.

Microsoft senior director Paul Cooke has rubbished claims that the software giants hard drive encryption tool, BitLocker, has been "cracked".