Sales of desktop computers soared 30 percent in February defying talk that such machines are being made obsolete by laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices. "Desktops have been the surprise consumer technology growth category of 2010," said NPD vice president of industry analysis Stephen Baker. Sales of personal computers running on Microsoft Window's operating systems and of Macintosh desktop ...

Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges. Microsoft started sending updates to Windows computers in Europe in early March that ...

Norway's Opera says downloads of its browser have more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges. Microsoft started sending updates to Windows computers in Europe in early March that tell ...

Virtualization software from Microsoft suffers from a zero-day vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass security mechanisms and execute arbitrary code, application security provider Core Security Technologies disclosed Tuesday.Microsoft, however, is disputing the claims.The flaw affects Microsoft's Virtual ...