Is Microsoft already hot in their pants about Linux and Open Office? A recent job posting does not suggest otherwise. According to a job posting on Microsoft careers, they are looking for a Marketing lead who will focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”.

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 is slated to start on January 7th 2010. CES 2010 will see around 3000 companies launching more than 20,000 products. Here are our predictions for CES 2010 for Intel, HTC, Palm and Microsoft.

Microsoft is planning on joining Windows Mobile somehow with Xbox Live. Some of it’s Job Ads suggest so.

Microsoft has released some more new themes for Windows 7 users including a special theme to promote awareness about clean-water scarcity.

Watch the Windows 8 Copenhagen concept videos to see the concepts and design ideas being planned for Windows 8. The new graphics and user experience in Windows 8 is simply spectacular.

Court upholds injunction on sale of Office 2007 & Word 2007 post January 11, 2010 against Microsoft in a patent infringement case filed by i4i. Microsoft says that they are working on removing the feature so that sales of Office 2007 are not affected.

Yes, the little dog (XP Search Assistant) is a spy, but you can terminate this spy with a registry hack or a PowerToy from Microsoft. No animals were harmed in the making of this article.

Microsoft is looking for an associate who would write about the advantages of Microsoft’s new software.

Plurk has not accepted the apology from Microsoft for the Juku copy theft, however they might eventually sue Microsoft over it.

Microsoft Indic Language tool is a set of online and offline utilities which utilises free-form transliteration to make typing in Indian Languages (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telegu) easier.

European Union has decided to drop the anti-trust complaint pending against Microsoft after the later promised to bundle upto 12 alternate browsers with Windows.

Yesterday we had told you how Microsoft was caught with their pants down, when Plurk accused them of outright design and code theft. Though Microsoft did not react much initially, they have now released a press statement which apologizes to Plurk for the design theft.

Microsoft was fined $16000 by a Delhi court for a case they filed against prejudice software pirates. Piracy is the biggest problem for software companies in Asian countries, and this ruling will definitely put a dent in their hopes.

Microsoft China has been accused of lifting design and code from their social networking rival Plurk. Much of the design of MSN Club China is very similar to that of Plurk along with more similarities in the code used by Microsoft.

Screenshots of Windows Live Messenger 2010 and Windows Live Writer 2010, which will be included in Wave 4, the utility produc software suite from Microsoft.