Police can still find your deleted message.

A forensics tool from Cellebrite can crack a phone's password and retrieve all of its data.

Think that a secure password and erasing your phone's memory will protect sensitive information on your smartphone? Think again.

How to select a computer.

John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac

The primary decision criteria for selecting a personal computer are:

1. PC, Mac or Linux
2. Ergonomics
3. Desktop, laptop, netbook or tablet
4. Where to buy

Microsoft build human computer gestures.

Digits uses "low-power" components to track a
wide variety of hand gestures in real-time

A wrist-worn sensor that creates 3D-models of the user's hand movements in real-time has been built by Microsoft.

How to fix Microsoft.

Microsoft recently revamped their corporate logo for the first time in 25 years.

There's nothing broken about being the fourth-most valuable company in the world, which is exactly what Microsoft is today. That same company, however, is valued at half what it was 10 years ago. It's not exactly thriving, either.

New computers installed with pre-infected viruses.

Cybercriminals have opened a new front in their battle to infect computers with malware - PC production lines.

Microsoft unveiled new logo.

Microsoft's new logo is seen in a handout photo. Microsoft Corp unveiled
its first new logo in 25 years on Thursday as it looks to unify its branding
ahead of a clutch of new product releases this year.

Microsoft Corp unveiled its first new logo in 25 years on Thursday as it looks to unify its branding ahead of a clutch of new product releases this year.

Microsoft "Surface"

With its new Surface Tablet, Microsoft didn’t just break the mold. It smashed it into a million little pieces, chucked them all into the furnace and set the temperature to obliterate. There really is no precedent for what Microsoft did this week.

Microsoft Presents Windows 8 Developer Preview

Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Divisions at Microsoft, talks to thousands of developers about the Windows 8 Developer Preview during the opening BUILD keynote, Sept. 13 in Anaheim, Calif.

LOS ANGELES — Sept. 13, 2011 — Today at its developer-focused BUILD conference, Microsoft Corp. showcased a detailed preview of the next major release of Windows, code-named “Windows 8.” The company also detailed new tools for developers to help write applications for more than 1 billion people around the world who use Windows every day.

Microsoft "tracking protection" browser,

Microsoft Corp plans to give users of its new Internet browser the ability to stop certain sites from gathering information from users as the company looks to head off federal online privacy legislation.

Microsoft TV in the Works?

The company is reportedly negotiating with networks and premium services, preparing to launch its own streaming service.

Microsoft is planning its own streaming TV service to compete with Netflix, Apple, Google, and a host of other companies, according to sources.

Kinect Gets Disconnected In Teardown

Microsoft's Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 gets torn apart by the folks over at iFixit.

Kinect, Microsoft's new motion control gaming system, launched across America this Thursday.

Windows Phone 7 handset range revealed

Microsoft has unveiled 10 new mobile phones that will run its Windows Phone 7 operating system

Ten devices running Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, will be available in shops from Oct 21, it has been announced.

Microsoft to releases security patch for shortcut bug

Microsoft is issuing an urgent security update to fix a flaw in the way Windows handles shortcuts.

The bug means that attackers can craft booby-trapped shortcuts that allow them to take over a target computer.

Microsoft to launch Windows slate

Tablet devices which run the Windows 7 operating system will launch in the coming months, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft Calling. Anyone There?

Microsoft’s engineers and executives spent two years creating a new line of smartphones with playful names that sounded like creatures straight out of “The Cat in the Hat” — Kin One and Kin Two. Stylish designs, an emphasis on flashy social-networking features and an all-out marketing blitz were meant to prove that Microsoft could build the right product at the right time for the finickiest customers — gossiping youngsters with gadget skills.

Hackers target Microsoft Windows XP support system

Hi-tech criminals are "escalating" attacks on an unpatched bug in the Windows XP help and support system.

Microsoft said it had seen more than 10,000 machines hit by the attack that, so far, it has not found a fix for.

Windows PCs falling victim will have control of that machine handed over to attackers.

Microsoft's Kinect makes a splash

(Project Natal, essentially Microsoft's answer to Nintendo's
Wii, has a new name: Kinect)

Cirque du Soleil helps launch controller-less system

Project Natal, essentially Microsoft's answer to Nintendo's Wii, has a new name: Kinect.

Microsoft made a big splash with the controller-less system last summer when it introduced Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 will end soon

Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010.

Support is ending for some versions of Windows

•Support for Windows Vista without any service packs ended on April 13, 2010.
•Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010.*

32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Here are answers to some common questions about the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows

What is the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows?

The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called a CPU), handles information. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system.

Microsoft Office 2010 takes aim at Google Docs

Microsoft is preparing to launch its latest weapon in its ongoing battle with Google.

The software giant will launch its flagship product Office 2010 to businesses on 12 May.

The latest version of the software has a free online component - called Office Web Apps.