Microsoft’s intellectual property war is on a roll: The company just announced itsthird patent dealwith an Android vendor this week. Yes, Microsoft is now receiving royalties from yet another vendor who employs Android on some of its devices. Up today: Onkyo Corporation. Earlier this week: General Dynamics and Velocity Micro. As before, Microsoft is not saying much about the deal, other than that it is getting paid out of the agreement in recompense for Onkyo using its intellectual property:...

In a ‘no way, that is too ironic to be true’ moment, Microsoft’s Security Essentials software appears to be, in certain instances, marking Chrome as malware and removing it. Oh dear. The best part? Security Essentials, when the problem occurs, deems Chrome to be trojan infection that steals passwords. The identity overtones are too delicious to not mull over. Still, the situation is serious, as Microsoft’s software appears to be chewing carpet for fun and pleasure at the expense of its competitor....

In a blog post today written to celebrate the18 month anniversaryof Windows 7, Microsoft announced that it has sold more than 350 million copies of the software. That breaks down to roughly 19.4 million copies sold per month, or about 648,148 copies per day. Continuing the math, that is roughly 27,000 copies sold per hour since launch. Even more, that is 450 copies sold per minute over the last 18 months....

Microsoft’s never-ending cake shipping saga has taken a new turn today, as Mozilla released yet another version of Firefox, forcing the Redmond software giant into sending more sugar. And as usual, Microsoft took advantage of the moment to poke a little fun at its browser rival. Instead of sending Mozilla a real cake, as it has done for nearly every other edition of Firefox, it sent a cupcake, and a very little one at that....

In case you didn’t know, Microsoft sends Mozilla cakes whenever they ship a major Firefox release. It’s a nice way to acknowledge hard work, and it builds a more positive relationship between the rivals. It’s also a bit sweet, and Mozilla appreciates the gesture. Today, Microsoft sent Mozilla what appears to be an IE9 cupcake as the company has just shipped Firefox 5. The shot of the cake below came as a part of thefollowing tweetby @Damos: “Just received the congrats cake....