Microsoft may just have acknowledged that digital distribution of software, long (relatively) used for distribution and sales of games, may just be ready to hit the big time. In an understated announcement on a newsgroup, by an MVP, Microsoft has announced it is going to halt the sale of boxed copies of its Quicken competitor, Money Plus.

Microsoft and Yahoo! are moving from dead point thanks to Microsoft meeting with Yahoo execs to share their views on how the combined companies would look.

The European Union has fined Microsoft a record $1.3 billion for charging unreasonably high royalties to competing software developers.

AOL may fall under additional pressure from Microsoft if the latter gives up its endeavor to take over Internet icon Yahoo, Wall Street analysts believe. Time Warner believes that AOL’s advertising businesses are likely to intensify once Google finishes the acquisition of DoubleClick.

Microsoft harbors plans to provide key software to colleges and high schools free of charge in a move to let students get acquainted with the software of the computer giant.

Microsoft Corp intends to replace the head of its mobile-phone unit. This is first step of a broader executive reshuffle.

Yahoo considers resuming merger talks with America Online (AOL) after the Internet icon rejected Microsoft’s staggering 46-billion-dollar takeover bid. The company reportedly considers cooperation opportunities with Google and Disney.

Microsoft has made a new update to its Office Live Small Business. From now on, users will have to choose from three features: Basics, Essentials and Premium. One can start from the same level fro free and then add whatever they might need at extra cost. The update supports Forefox browsers and adds marketing options and e-commerce.

OpenID has gained adoption among organizations like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Verisign and Yahoo.

Microsoft’s Vista celebrates its first birthday today. Official spokespeople for the world’s major computer giant claim that Vista has brought best revenues ever to the corporation. However, the new system has received a rather negative reaction in the world. Microsoft had to make quite a number of modifications and adjustments to make Vista attractive to consumers.

Microsoft's interest in buying Yahoo had been rumored for so long that when the bid - $44.6 billion - was finally made last week, it managed to surprise just about everyone in the high-tech world.

Microsoft Corporation, an American multinational computer technology corporation, added another research lab in the list of already existed. The research lab in Cambridge, Mass will be open in July and will mark a new step in theoretical research – interdisciplinary one – including computers and social science.