Police search a neighborhood where authorities say the suspect fled in Cupertino Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP.

Hewlett-Packard’s Cupertino campus was shut down on Wednesday while local police searched for a suspect of a multiple homicide still on the run who shot and wounded one of the company’s employees. At least three of Apple’s Cupertino, Calif. campus office buildings were also locked down in the wake of the shooting, Wired.com has learned.

After leaving the scene of the shooting — the Hansen Permanente Quarry near Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino — the suspect fled to...

Microsoft reimagining Windows, again. Image: Microsoft

Change is good, says Microsoft, especially when it comes to the Windows Start Menu.

In a post to the Windows 8 blog on Tuesday, Alice Steinglass — a manager with Microsoft’s elaborately named Core Experience Evolved team — explained that the new version of the company’s flagship operating system is “reimagining” the Start Menu because, well, people barely used the old one.

According to Microsoft data, Windows users launch most of their programs from the Taskbar. Between Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft saw an 11 percent drop in Start...