When a Hotmail security breach exposed e-mail inboxes, I spied on a rival and learned more than I wanted to know.

Oracle's sleuthing doesn't seem so bad when you consider the results.

Did Bill Gates beat Netscape fair and square?

The software giant withdraws its support from an anti-discrimination bill, but it insists that it didn't succomb to pressure from a mega-church minister.

Microsoft's attempt to play presidential politics lands it in hot water.

Gates' Microsoft defense is full of holes, but so is the government's breakup plan.

The mega-church minister who threatened Microsoft over its position on a gay right bill says the company is lying about the reason for its flip-flop.

How Microsoft is turning its employees into second-class (and third-class) citizens.

Trust in companies like Amazon, Google and Apple is still clearly a smart home issue

In explaining away a flip-flop on gay rights, CEO Steve Ballmer repeats the company line. Activist groups aren't amused.

If the company wanted to "focus" on a limited number of legislative issues, why did it go to all the work of changing its position on a gay rights bill?

No longer cowed by the feds, the colossus of Redmond returns to business as usual.

Even before "misremembering," years of self-parody promoting the network diluted the anchor's credibility

Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg. For Microsoft, "innovate or die" becomes "innovate or buy" as the company's PR machine revs up.

Scott Rosenberg on the temporary order issued by a federal judge on 12/11/97, forbidding Microsoft to force computer manufacturers to included Internet Explorer whenever they install Windows 95 on a new computer