In what is a real David vs. Goliath battle, a small St. Louis-based web design company called Bing Information Design! Is suing Microsoft over its Bing search engine, claiming that Microsoft needs to compensate them for stealing the name Bing, the company says it hold the right to use on the net.

The lawsuit specifically states Microsoft’s new search engine causing confusion regarding the relationship between plaintiff and defendant, also tends to confuse the public as to the origin of the plaintiff’s services, including diluting the value of its trademark.

A South Korean court on Thursday found US software giant Microsoft Corp guilty of violating anti-trust regulations, but dismissed compensation demands by two rival South Korean companies.

The Seoul district court ruled that the world's largest software provider had abused its dominant market position by bundling programmes with its Windows operating system.

According to The Seattle Times, a beta version of Microsoft's Vine, a new social networking service akin to Twitter debuted Monday in Seattle, aimed specifically at keeping friends and family up to date in any emergency.

Used for sending alerts or reports and for communicating with the user's network via PC or mobile devices, Vine appears as a dashboard on a PC screen showing the local community the status of the user's contacts.

Can the tight US economy help Microsoft beat back the cavalry charge of its much smaller, but much cooler, competitor Apple?

The software giant from Seattle seems to sense a whiff of opportunity in the air, bombarding the trendy maker of Macs, iPhones and iPods in ads and executive comments for being too expensive in these penny-pinching times.

The latest salvo comes in the form of widely screened TV ads, which show what Microsoft says are real life computer users shopping for new machines.

Washington - So you've resisted the move to Windows Vista? You're not alone. Although Vista is installed on most new PCs delivered today, this much-reviled successor to Windows XP has been a flop by many measures that matter: its uptake by businesses has been slow, complaints from consumers have been rampant, and the word-of- mouth damage has been so severe as to cause Microsoft to hurriedly ready Vista's successor, now expected by the end of this year.

Buy a new copy of Windows Vista or a new computer today, and you'll have a decision to make: Should you go for the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, or the 32-bit version?

Microsoft was forced to issue a rare emergency patch Wednesday for its Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft issued a rare emergency patch on Thursday to fix a critical bug in its Windows operating system, which could be exploited by online criminals to take over individual and corporate computers.

It was the first time since April 2007 that the software giant has issued a patch outside its schedule of monthly updates.