Come next week, owners of Microsoft Corp’s portable music player Zune will be able to download music wirelessly and tag and buy songs they hear on the device’s built-in FM radio, Microsoft said on Monday.

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Starting Wednesday, users with pirated copies of Microsoft Corp’s Windows XP Professional operating system (OS) on machines that are Internet-capable could find their computer displays going black and with no screen icons visible.

There are 8.6 million users of Win XP Pro in Malaysia and about three million are expected to suffer the “blackouts,” according to Microsoft Malaysia.

To continue working, the user would need to reset the machine’s desktop background. Everything will return to normal. But when 60 minutes are up, the black screen will reappear and the user must go through the whole process again.

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Microsoft Corp.’s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.

The site, called Photosynth, stitches together a set of related digital photos into a presentation that allows viewers to zoom and pan across the scene.

Microsoft employees and partners including National Geographic had been tinkering with a private beta version of the technology. Microsoft was set to open Photosynth to the public late Wednesday, but on Thursday morning the working site had already been replaced by a page that displayed an apology.

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I found Panda Security Malaysia in the exhibition of Microsoft Tech.Ed 2008.

Now I am using the Panda Internet Security 2008 with Mega Detection, thanks to Panda for the complimentary 1 year user license.

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Carl C. Icahn, the activist investor, has a powerful new ally in his campaign to take control of Yahoo: Microsoft.

In yet another twist in its five-month-old pursuit of Yahoo, Microsoft said Monday that it would be interested in negotiating a purchase of Yahoo’s search business or of the entire company, as long as Yahoo replaces its board.

Mr. Icahn is mounting a proxy fight against Yahoo’s board, one built on the gamble that he can bring Microsoft back to the negotiating table. Read the rest of this entry »

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In yet another reversal in its five-month-old pursuit of Yahoo, Microsoft said Monday that it might be interested in negotiating a deal with Yahoo, including an outright acquisition, as long as that company replaces its board of directors.

Microsoft’s announcement gives strong momentum to Carl C. Icahn, the activist shareholder, who is waging a proxy campaign to unseat the Yahoo board. Read the rest of this entry »

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