When the CEO of Microsoft spends over an hour in a secret meeting with the CEO of Adobe, people tend to be curious. Some are suggesting that Microsoft is interested in buying Adobe.

In this interview IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and InfoWorld.com Editor in Chief Eric Knorr talk with Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Division about Windows Azure, SQL Server, System Center and more.

Bing will get special access to the archives of the French National Library according to a deal signed this week between Steve Ballmer and Bruno Racine, president of the library.

A reader sets 100 tasks a day and wants to know how to turn off all those reminders.

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Kinect is the motion-sensing system for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game controller. Before it was known as Kinect it was called Project Natal. Whatever you call it, it will have effects far beyond game playing.

Microsoft boasts that 95 percent of the world’s computers run Windows. That’s 95 percent of the computers with the same vulnerabilities to be exploited, exposing untold monies to malware writers.

The Registry is a database that controls the function of your Windows PC. Any change made to the PC is written to the registry. While it can be edited, an incorrect entry can cause more than a few headaches. This article explains the basics of editing the registry.

NuPack is a developer version of an open source package manager for .NET. The package was submitted to the Outercurve Foundation.

AccentSoft’s Accent OFFICE Password Recovery 5 is the latest version of its software for recovering lost passwords for Microsoft Office and LibreOffice files.

Microsoft has decided to clear the way for Windows Phone 7 by killing Android. The company has begun building patent infringement cases against makers of hardware running Android.