Intensifying its campaign against spammers, Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has taken legal action in the company's home state of Washington and in the United Kingdom. Microsoft said it filed 13 ...

Microsoft is taking its antispam fight to the Asia-Pacific. As part of its current global campaign against unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, the software giant says it will use better filtering, ...

The latest anti-spam offerings are tied to Microsoft's web-mail service Hotmail, which is offered through the Redmond, Wash., software maker's MSN entertainment portal. Microsoft introduced a preview ...

This week has not been good for Outlook users as the renowned service has been struggling with high spam levels. Reports have been coming from all regions, suggesting a major issue with the company's ...

The company reports that spam is spreading like a plague."Spam is big, several billion messages every day and still growing. With it grows the frustration of millions who must wade through a rising ...

Microsoft said it will release an updated version of its MSN Internet service on Wednesday, the latest salvo in its ongoing campaign to unseat America Online. The latest update to MSN 8 focuses on ...

Microsoft has settled a lawsuit that it filed two years ago against the self-proclaimed “King of Spam,” Scott Richter, who at one time helped distribute more than 38 billion unsolicited e-mails per ...

After 24 hours of leaving everyone guessing, Microsoft took credit for the sudden takedown the day before of Rustock, the world’s biggest source of e-mailed spam. "Just over a year ago, we announced ...

IT industry leaders Amazon.com and Microsoft said Tuesday that they have joined forces to file several lawsuits targeting individuals accused of carrying out Internet crimes such as spamming, phishing ...

Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday it is launching a system to make it harder for spammers to disguise their locations, part of a broad initiative that company Chairman Bill Gates said would ease the ...

Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it won an almost US$4 million verdict against a California man for trademark infringement, false advertising and “cybersquatting” stemming from an unsolicited ...