The open-source community has an enormous interest in the outcome of last week’s decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine the patent Microsoft holds on the FAT file system. The FAT file system is also used by the open-source Samba software that lets Linux and Unix computers exchange data with Windows computers, and by Linux itself to read and write files on Windows hard drives.

The folks at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog have offered several solutions for repairing an Exchange database that won’t start.

Microsoft is readying a strategy to counter email storage moves by Google and Yahoo. For now though, MSN is still offering the same 2 MB of free email storage, compared to the 1 GB offered by Google’s newly minted Gmail and the 100 MB now offered by Yahoo Mail.

To figure out the broad changes needed for its venerable Office software, Microsoft is turning to an Indian medical student, an aspiring architect from Kenya and 13 other young adults from across the globe. The young people, ages 19 to 24, are part of an "Information Worker Board of the Future" that will spend this week touring Microsoft’s campus and discussing their ideas for the future of work and software.

Paul Allen, one of the world’s more reclusive billionaires, is suddenly more visible than ever these days. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates nearly three decades ago, will spend the next few days presiding over the grand opening of a science fiction museum in Seattle and a space launch in the Mojave desert.

The person responsible for turning in the accused creator of the Sasser worm is now under investigation for being a party to the crime. A magazine reported that the informant who provided the tip to Microsoft that led to the arrest of Sven Jaschan is a classmate of the German teen.

This article explains what the Common Criteria Certification is and what the EAL levels are, why they are important and broaden your horizons in yet another area of systems security.

Most enterprises agree they can no longer simply dump old email messages. Opinion varies, however, on just what to do with those mountains of messages.

Intel processors weren’t designed with virtualization in mind, which may be one of the reasons that Redmond has taken a while to put together its Virtual Server offering, experts say.

A federal grand jury has indicted Network Associates’ former chief financial officer on charges he helped inflate the company’s financial outlook by hundreds of millions of dollars.