The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. "Working in partnership with ...

Microsoft shocks PDC attendees by giving them a free tablet PC, but for Microsoft the gift arms a horde of developers with the tools to explore Windows 7’s advanced features and expose the ...

Last week, Microsoft completed the three-year-plus development of Windows 7, its latest flagship operating system. It's the product the company hopes will wash away the stigma of Windows Vista. The ...

Microsoft remains mum on the actual ship date of Windows 7, although in the past it has said that it would ship three years after Vista was generally available, which was late January, 2007. That ...

Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

Steven Sinofsky, the no-nonsense Microsoft executive credited with bringing new discipline to Windows engineering, [is] the company’s newest divisional president. … The promotion signals the company’s ...

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer likes to be blunt every once in a while. He is known to get very excited about Microsoft's work. A little too excited some would say. This has often brought a lot ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...