Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has filed a motion to stay a U.S. District Court’s ruling in a patent-infringement case, one that could see copies of Microsoft Word potentially yanked from store shelves within weeks. That Aug. 12 verdict by the U.S. District Court in East Texas also saw Microsoft hit with nearly $300 million in accumulated fines. Microsoft […]

Microsoft‘s Bing search engine saw its market share grow slightly in July 2009, even before the added effect of the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership agreement, according to new data released by research firm comScore. In July, Bing’s share of the U.S. search market climbed to 8.9 percent from 8.4 percent in June, while Yahoo’s market share fell […]

Microsoft finds itself the target of two new patent-infringement lawsuits, both filed in East Texas courts. Filed by a small company named EMG Technology against not only Microsoft but also Scottrade and Southwest Airlines, the first lawsuit centers on both Patent 7020845, “Navigating Internet content on a television using a simplified interface and a remote […]

Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer 8 Web browser is effective at blocking both phishing sites and socially engineered malware, according to two new NSS Labs reports. In turn, this has led Microsoft to push for its users to upgrade to the new browser from IE 6 and IE 7, which a significant portion of the community continues […]

Microsoft filed an emergency motion on Aug. 14 in a Texas case that would have forced it to pull Microsoft Word from store shelves and pay a small Canadian company, i4i, close to $300 million in fines. In an interview with eWEEK, i4i Chairman Loudon Owen and founder Michel Vulpe asserted that while they were […]

When a U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled that Microsoft had violated an XML-related patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, the verdict seemed to potentially threaten both Microsoft and the open-source community. As part of the verdict, Microsoft was banned from “selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United […]

Immediately after Microsoft and Nokia on Aug. 12 announced a deal to load a mobile version of Microsoft Office onto Nokia smartphones, debates erupted online as to what the alliance would mean for Microsoft Windows Mobile, Redmond’s own mobile operating system. Under the terms of the agreement, the mobile Microsoft Office applications will come preloaded […]

Online rumors have been swirling anew that Apple plans on releasing a tablet computer either later in 2009 or sometime in 2010, which could pressure Microsoft into working with its manufacturing partners to release a device of its own. According to Gizmodo, which reportedly received the information from a high-level source, the Apple tablet will […]

The court ruling that Microsoft violated an XML-related patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, could threaten not only Redmond, but also the open-source community. “If the validity of the patent is upheld then the immediate question is whether this will also impact ODF [OpenDocument Format],” Brian Prentice, an analyst with Gartner, wrote in […]

Microsoft is planning to replace Entourage for Mac with a new version of Outlook for Mac later in 2009. The Outlook for Mac e-mail application will ship with the next version of the Microsoft Office for Mac productivity suite, according to an Aug. 13 statement from Microsoft. A shipping date has not been announced. Before […]

Microsoft and Nokia have announced a partnership that will see Microsoft Office applications ported onto Nokia smartphones, starting with the Nokia Eseries, which are primarily marketed towards business users. The Microsoft and Nokia executives announcing the deal took pains to emphasize that the new partnership will in no way blunt the companies’ competition over their […]

A U.S. District Court in Texas has banned the sale and support of Microsoft Word in the United States, after a judge ruled that Microsoft had violated patents held by Canada-based technology company i4i. According to the permanent injunction filed on Aug. 11, Microsoft is banned from “selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or […]