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Documents unsealed by a federal court in the "Vista Capable" lawsuit reportedly reveal that Microsoft would have to come up with as much as $8.5 billion to settle accounts with customers affected by its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing debacle.

Keith Leffler, a University of Washington economist and expert witness for the plaintiffs, estimates that it would cost a m… Continue

Malware was on the rise last year, and 2009 doesn't look much better. Reports from two different security companies, AVG and F-secure, are painting an increasingly dangerous picture of our online world.

F-secure, makers of real-time virus protection software, reports that detections of malware have tripled since 2007… Continue

If you were to list the world's most dangerous jobs, you probably wouldn't place tech site founder in the top, oh, hundred thousand. However, popular blog TechCrunch recently lost its co-founder Michael Arrington, amidst rumors that his life was being threatened.

Although TechCrunch has only been in operation since June, 2005 it has in that time made quite the impression. Wo… Continue

After flirting with open source development for some time, Microsoft has made another step towards real commitment with the release of source code for Web Sandbox, a program used to test and secure web site content.

The Sandbox source code will be released under the Apache 2.0 license, an open source license agreement allowing the content creator to maintain copyright while permitting others to develop the product for their own use. Microsoft has gradually been increasing their involvement with… Continue

An early release of Microsoft's uber-popular web browser Internet Explorer version 8 (IE8) is now available for download. The Redmond-based company boasts that it's the safest and most secure browser ever constructed, and has included several new features meant to protect users against even the most innovative hacker attacks.

As expected, Microsoft has simply added ye… Continue