Stephen L. Nelson, CPA asked: Individuals and small businesses sometimes balk about using personal finance and small business accounting programs like Microsoft Money for online banking or online investing. However, the sign-up process is usually very straightforward. And–and here’s the...

Danielle Marks asked: IntroductionPiracy and license non-compliance are major challenges for software publishes. Microsoft estimates that these actions cost the software industry last year around $40 billion in lost revenues around the world. Piracy ranges from the relatively innocent copying of software...

Amarjit Singh asked: Everyone knows that Google is a multi-billion dollar company. The reason that Google is paying big money to the public is because Google is more than a search engine, there an advertising company. Google have created an advertising program called “Google AdSense”. Google...

Geoff Gannon asked: Microsoft is a difficult situation for me to evaluate. I think the company still has a lot of growth ahead in some areas. But, that depends on where management wants to take it.There are three core businesses that are already well developed: Windows, Office, and Servers.The moat...

RUPINDER KAUR asked: UPDATED: Did Microsoft help fund SCO, and, by association, Scot’s lawsuits against Linux vendors and users? A new internal memo leads to that conclusion. Is there always fire where threes smoke?In the open-source community, the rumor that just won’t die claims that Microsoft...