San Fransisco - Microsoft released an emergency patch for a "critical" crack in Windows operating system software that could let hackers take control of computers over the Internet. "The vulnerability ...

Microsoft Corp. will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.

In an unexpected twist, a Microsoft support engineer resorted to running an unofficial 'crack' on a customer's Windows PC after a genuine copy of the operating system failed to activate normally. It ...