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Microsoft has agreed to pay a UK-based Xbox developer £45,000 for the anti-gay harassment he endured on the job. According to the designer, who worked on the firm’s Xbox games at the Lionhead Studios in Guildford, he was called “fag boy Jim” by colleagues, who sent mocking emails making fun of his sexuality. He alleged that the company’s human resources …

CNET, Symantec, Microsoft and other computer sites are warning of an April Fool’s Day virus which is supposed go global tomorrow. A giant computer worm is set to take effect on April Fools’ Day and your computer may already be infected. The Conficker computer worm is estimated to have already infiltrated between 5 and 10 million computers across the country. …

Gizmodo is reporting that the nation’s 30GB Zune owners are waking up today to find their devices “frozen” in some apparent Y2K-ish programming glitch. The problem is being reported by thousands of Zune owners across numerous user forums. Apparently, around 2:00 AM today, the Zune models either reset, or were already off. Upon when turning on, the thing loads up …

Microsoft is ceasing sales of Windows XP and that’s got some PC wonks in a dither. Goodbye, Windows XP. Microsoft, which released its latest operating system, Vista, last year, plans to stop selling Windows XP in stores and through its PC partners on June 30. It’s a typical move in the high-tech industry, as older models make way for new …

Microsoft has made a $44B bid for Yahoo!, which has been struggling of late and is set to lay off over 1000 employees. Microsoft said the booming online advertising market “is increasingly dominated by one player” — a reference to Google — and suggested that with Yahoo under its wing it could better compete in the bonanza. Online advertising sales …

Microsoft and Yahoo! are in merger talks, with Microsoft reportedly prepared to offer $50 billion for Yahoo, in a move seen as a challenge to Google’s dominance of internet advertising. Last month Google further entrenched at the pole position when it purchased branded placement experts DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. A merged Microsoft/Yahoo would still trail Google in search market share, …

So who’s got Vista already?.

Microsoft has been busted for offering to start paying a blogger to make edits to its Wikipedia entries. I am 300% certain that other companies have employees making sure that Wikipedia entries are tweaked to favor themselves, but you have to shake your head at Microsoft for going out-of-house on this. Microsoft has admitted that it violated the Wikipedia terms …