ICANN has approved the gTLD program that will let any company apply to run dot-anything. Now a company will be able to use ".IBM" or ".Microsoft" instead of the old standby ".com".

Software licensing used to mean "one desktop=one license" now, with virtualisation at the server and the desktop, it can spell confusion. This 13-minute video interview looks at some of the problems.

Microsoft made their money by "owning" the enterprise market. They need to continue to support the enterprise if they want to remain in business. Their attempts to move into other markets have all met with failure.

While Microsoft is getting ready to move Office off the desktop and into the cloud with Office 365, it would seem that users aren’t quite ready to make the jump.

On Tuesday Microsoft released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer. Hackers have now targeted PCs that do not have the patch installed.

For those who don’t use caller ID or aren’t on the "do not call" list, there is a scam using the telephone that targets computer users. The scammer claims to be a representative from a major security company, such as Microsoft tech support.

It’s only a tease – so far – but the date being offered is "autumn 2012". And a proposed Microsoft tablet will run Win8, instead of WinPhone software, on ARM chips.

The beta version of the software development kit (SDK) for the Kinect sensor has been released. The SDK is currently available only for noncommercial use. A commercial version will be released later.

C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism, C++ AMP for short, is part of Microsoft’s next version of the Visual C++ compiler. C++ AMP is designed to take advantage of general purpose GPU computing (GPGPU).

Tuesday’s patches fixed 34 vulnerabilities, 15 of them rated critical. Bulletin MS11-050 offered 11 patches for IE, including Internet Explorer 9.