Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/14/2007
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
Microsoft's Process Monitor is the new, improved version for troubleshooting application processes.
- By Greg Shields
- 08/13/2007
Also: RealPlayer, HelixPlayer flaws show hackers casting wider OS net; open-source imaging software gets fix.
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
PowerShell version of a CMD trick for getting server names in a text file.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/12/2007
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2007
The extremely air-conditioned computer farms known as data centers are the gas-guzzling jalopies of the technology world. Some require 40 or 50 times more power than comparably sized office space.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
Developers are showing a trend toward favoring the use of Java vs. .NET when it comes to implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), according to analysis from Evans Data Corp.
A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. shares jumped nearly 6 percent after the network equipment maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street's expectations and boosted its financial forecast.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/08/2007
A new-generation command prompt for those who remember the good ol' days of ANSI.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/08/2007
The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/08/2007
Here's a quick, handy guide to some important resources for working with Microsoft's newest operating system.
Microsoft on Wednesday tried to clear up nagging questions about its Commerce Server roadmap and did. Kind of.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 08/08/2007