Zinedine Zidane has hinted that Real Madrid are still interested in signing the Manchester United target Paul Pogba, insisting “anything can happen”.

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Microsoft has been ordered by a United States federal court to turn over a customer’s emails and other information stored in a Dublin data centre.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will complete its acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone business this Friday, expanding the reach of the Windows Phone operating system.

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A man opened fire on a policeman bringing an eviction order, killing him and another man before he was shot dead by officers.

The European Commission has approved Microsoft Corporation’s proposed $8.5bn (€6.4bn) acquisition of the internet voice and video communication provider Skype, saying the deal would not significantly impede competition in Europe.

Brussels: Microsoft has thrown its weight behind an existing probe by European Union authorities into whether Google is abusing its dominant position in the online search market to thwart competition.

Microsoft is filing an anti-competition complaint against Google with the European Commission.

THE New England Patriots continued their historic charge on Sunday by overcoming a winter blast of snow to beat the New York Jets 20-10 and extend their season record to 14-0.

GLOBAL computer software giant, Microsoft, has been found guilty of abusing its dominant market position by freezing out competitors and must pay a record fine of €497 million as a result, the European Court in Luxembourg has found.

The European Union today escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft today, threatening new multi-million-euro fines against the software maker over claims it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on licenses for helping servers work with Windows.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today he will progressively move out of a day-to-day role at the company he co-founded to spend more time on global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft lawyers today said the US software giant had lived up to European Union antitrust demands at the start of a two-day hearing with EU regulators in an attempt to avoid new fines.

Microsoft today offered “free, unlimited technical support” to rivals interested in making their software work with servers of the software giant, it was announced in Brussels.

The European Union took new legal steps against Microsoft today to ensure better compliance with its 2004 antitrust ruling, threatening fines of up to €2m a day if the software giant does not meet its demands.

Microsoft is ready to put a stripped-down version of Windows on the market if it fails this week to persuade a judge to suspend a landmark EU antitrust decision.

THE family of a surfer killed by a shark “as big as a car” said last night they did not want the man-eater shot.

Microsoft has said it is going to appeal the €497m fine set by European regulators for abusing its dominant market position.

MICROSOFT, the world’s largest personal computer software company, is expected to be fined up to $404 million and given a deadline to permit rivals using its operating systems next week.

MICROSOFT CORP chief executive officer Steve Ballmer and general counsel Brad Smith held talks with the European Commission yesterday in an effort to settle row over the world’s largest software maker allegedly abusing the dominance of Windows to stifle competition.

Microsoft began its defence against European antitrust charges today, optimistic a deal could still be reached to avoid penalties that could be the toughest it has been hit with in years of battling trustbusters on both sides of the Atlantic.

Microsoft is applying Wild West bounties to modern Internet crimes, and has set aside $ 5m (€4.3m) to pay large cash rewards to people who help authorities capture and prosecute the creators of damaging computer viruses.

Microsoft has launched 15 lawsuits against alleged e-mail spammers in the United States and Britain.

Microsoft Corp said it plans to disclose nearly 400 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) by August 28 in order to comply with a proposed antitrust settlement signed last year with the US Justice Department.

Nine US states are taking legal action in a bid to force Microsoft to release the blueprints for its internet browser.