U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that a bill stalled in Congress would give it the tools it needs to fight spyware.

Although Windows Vista has been on sale for nearly nine months, Microsoft has yet to seriously market the operating system, letting a certain rival control public mind share on a number of fronts. That's all about to change, as the Redmond company attempts to make Vista more compelling to consumers.

Bugs happen. They happen in Windows, OS X, various distros of Linux, whatever. But this bug unfortunately, is the saddest thing I have ever heard of. As the piece points out, Microsoft responded and said they are taking this very seriously. Great, but knowing how poorly activation has worked in the past, both from user experience side of things and simply because it’s so easy to bypass, maybe it’s time to get back to the drawing board?

Microsoft Corp. has delayed the release of the next version of Dynamics NAV, one of its ERP applications for mid-size companies, company executives said last week.

Keeping the good tradition, we want to offer the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet to the most active contributors of the maemo community, as soon as possible and as affordably as possible. The N810 maemo device program starts *now* with 500 discount codes entitling their fortunate owners to get a device for 99€ (or equivalent price in other currencies).

A malicious hacker broke into an eBay server last week and temporarily suspended the accounts of a "very small" number of members, the company said.

ScriptLogic customers worried about migrating to Vista have been offered a new tool from the company to help spot potential problems.

The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work.

Bowing to pressure from customers and computer makers, Microsoft plans to keep Windows XP around a little longer.