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The Federal Trade Commission could be the latest agency to investigate the search leader, which has already come under scrutiny in Texas and in the EU.

Nokia-branded smartphones running Windows Phone 7 should hit stores by next year as alliance takes shape.

Leaked images indicate the next version of Microsoft's OS borrows heavily from Office and offers one-click access to key tools.

Community Edition pulls information from the address book and from the signature lines and headers of emails to keep business contacts current.

Software maker says Windows Phone 7 now has more than 11,000 applications and that rivals' figures are bogus.

Redmond should be innovating in areas like semantic search instead of getting wrapped up in legal actions against its rival.

The formal complaint with European Union regulators says Google is not playing fair in capturing the lion's share of ad revenue from search.

Windows and Internet Explorer are at greater risk of attacks because developers don't use mitigation technologies built into the software, said Microsoft.

The WP7 app store is an unparalleled hit, Microsoft says, but it still won't say how many handsets it has sold.

Microsoft co-founder won't likely get dinner invitations from his former partner after stinging new memoir is published.

Google's Android will be in first place, but Microsoft's WP 7 platform will come in second with 20% of the worldwide smartphone market by 2015, according to IDC.

Mango update for Microsoft's mobile OS is next in line after the NoDo copy & amp; paste patch is fully released.

The Rustok botnet was estimated to be one million PCs strong, underlining the dangers that malware can cause to businesses and consumers.

NoDo patch will roll out gradually as software maker hopes to avoid technical glitches that plagued previous update.

The Intel Xeon-based Altix UV runs Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 for more demanding business intelligence and other large-scale workloads.

Internet Explorer 9 is a powerful, fast, and intuitive interface for browsing the Web and compares favorably with competing browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

The browser wars are back and bigger than ever. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera are all providing innovative, fast, and streamlined experiences for surfing the Web. And now, with the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft joins in with arguably the best Web browser the company has ever released. With a revamped interface, improved security and privacy options, and much better performance, IE 9 compares well with competing browsers. Traditionally a laggard in performance tests, IE 9's new Web and JavaScript engines put it back among the pack in general performance tests and even slightly in the lead for JavaScript performance. IE 9 has also added many long missing features, such as a download manager and integrated search.

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