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Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Walt Mossberg calls Windows 7 a boost to productivity and a pleasure to use -- Microsoft's best operating system yet.

Recent concessions by Microsoft appear to address E.U. antitrust concerns, the competition commissioner said.

The reviews of Microsoft's new mobile OS, Windows Mobile 6.5, are in -- and none of them are glowing. It seems that Windows Mobile 6.5 is more of a superficial cosmetic overhaul, not a bona fide upgrade capable of handling the mobile market's stiff ...

Microsoft confirms that it is investigating reports that details of thousands of hotmail accounts have been posted online.

Software giant Microsoft's boss Steve Ballmer says he believes that the world will be in a period of slow growth for "years".

Google Inc. is giving Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic....

After months of slow but steady increases in its market share, Bing's share of the search market in the US and globally fell for the first time in September.

For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe.