The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Microsoft a patent for “super cookies.” Are they good for you? On May 2, six years to the day after Microsoft filed its application, the U.S. Patent ...

The Microsoft Edge Team on Tuesday explained their work on an Ad Selection API to address the impending disuse of third-party cookies in browsers. The idea behind the Ad Selection API is to still ...

Microsoft has shot dead zombie cookies after a string of bad publicity. The move comes after a researcher highlighted Microsoft's use of the zombie cookies which are tracking systems that don't ...

Microsoft is joining the chorus of tech companies, notably Google, that plan to do away with cookies, the tracking component used on the Web that's typically exploited by advertisers. AdAge last month ...

Yesterday's release of build 17672 may not have been tremendously exciting in terms of new features - especially after the feature-packed build 17666 - but the list of improvements included one ...

This week's digital workplace round up. Microsoft releases Search and updates it's Azure game. Google reins in cookies on Chrome and Microsoft. If data and content drive the digital workplace, search ...

Microsoft is accusing Google of conning Internet Explorer to track you as you surf the net -- but Google has hit back. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about social media, startups and technology trends. Previously, third party cookies were able to track user behavior while ...

Not even a full month after it was revealed that Google is working on an internet tracking technology to replace the cookie, Ad Age's Tim Peterson reports that Microsoft is considering an alternative ...

Microsoft has issued a patch almost a week after a vulnerability was revealed in Internet Explorer that would allow hackers to gain access to someone's cookies and expose the sensitive information ...

France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users. In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National ...