As Microsoft pushes to ready a suite of new design tools for offer under the Expression Studio brand, the company announced late last week that it is shipping the second beta release of the third of those tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/20/2007
Microsoft announced late last week it is shipping the first service pack for its Compute Cluster Pack.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/20/2007
John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/20/2007
Gates said Microsoft was helping set up computer learning centers in areas where demobilized paramilitary fighters are in dire need of job training.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Here's a simple way to display information in an IE window where HTA scripts might seem like overkill.
The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any other country
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Plus: A worm solution in search of a problem; spotty Sun Telnet; more
In the wake of its backdated stock options troubles, Apple Inc. is offering affected employees the chance to amend their past options and receive cash payments to avoid related tax penalties, according a regulatory filing Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Disgraced dot-com tycoon Takafumi Horie slammed his conviction and harsh sentence for securities fraud on Sunday, insisting he had committed no crimes and that he had more than paid for any mistakes by losing his company.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them -- a thorny issue that provoked a showdown with the U.S. government last year.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Microsoft this week began shipping the release candidate for Expression Blend, its new design tool for building Windows user interfaces using the .NET Framework 3.0’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/15/2007
Red Hat Inc. has unveiled the latest version of its Linux operating system as the open-source software company continues to combat Microsoft's market-dominating Windows platform.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Microsoft on Wednesday acquired Tellme Networks, Inc., which specializes in speech recognition and the integration of voice and data, technologies that may play a central role in Microsoft's Unified Communications and collaboration initiatives.
Cure PowerShell's Color-blindness with this quick tip.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/14/2007
Microsoft will buy Tellme Networks, which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Microsoft expands Partner Skills Plus program to include MCP exams covering Vista, Exchange 2007 and the Office technology suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2007
Microsoft Tuesday began shipping the second service pack for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/14/2007
Vista introduces a new security feature that makes roaming users and their data safer. Here's a look.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 03/14/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar and make its search portal the main service on all new computers worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007