Microsoft’s new desktop toolbar, released today in its final version, adds several new features, but is missing the tabbed browsing function for Internet Explorer that had been previewed in beta ...

Microsoft launched the final version of its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search as it chases Google for a wider audience share of the search market. This version of the search toolbar adds ...

My general opinion of browser toolbars is that they are a waste of screen space. In my eyes, they’re useless. Microsoft has a different opinion, and regularly updates its toolbars. The MSN Toolbar, ...

The MSN toolbar is sleek, has a nice look and some neat features, such as the "Flip" button, but overall it's rather ho-hum. On the homepage for the MSN toolbar download, the Web site explicitly ...

I'm getting numerous reports from readers claiming that Microsoft is back to pushing stealth updates to Windows users via Windows Update. This time, the update seems related to its browser toolbars.

Anyone who has to provide technical support for their friends’ and family’s computers know only too well about the plague of unwanted toolbars that can infest a user’s browser. In many cases they can ...

Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long ...

Microsoft has reclassified the Ask Toolbar as unwanted software, which means its security tools will automatically detect and remove all versions, except for the most recent, from Windows computers.

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...