Microsoft last week said it is cooperating with antivirus and security providers so that they can provide the same level as its own products, including OneCare Live. At least one big Microsoft partner and competitor, though, disputes those statements.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2006
Anti-spam group facing possible loss of domain name plans to appeal $12M judgment.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2006
In the countdown to Vista's release, there have been no reports of dumpster diving by enterprising reporters, but the largest circulation Seattle paper says it has seen a sign that points to the end of testing on Oct. 25th.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/17/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday software developers would no longer need to pay or license technology it provides to help one computer run multiple operating systems at the same time.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/17/2006
Microsoft is readying to ship in January a suite of tools that aims to make it less painful for volume customers to deploy and manage applications and desktops.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/17/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s effort to get big businesses to buy the new version of its Windows operating system isn't just about selling security improvements, better search tools and improved graphics.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/17/2006
Microsoft marketing Vista as a cost savings to businesses in energy consumption, reduced management headache.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
ThinkPad notebooks will now allow users to encrypt their hard drives at the press of a finger.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Plus, MS sponsors video game safety tour, TopCoder competition hits the Web, more.
Microsoft's release last week of its Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack (OBA RAP) for Supply Chain Management is the first in a series of technical resources. OBAs are designed to help guide the development of what Redmond calls "a new breed of applications" that use Office 2007 as a platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2006
Microsoft Corp. is preparing to release privacy guidelines based on its own internal practices in hopes of getting companies to adopt more cohesive standards for safeguarding people's personal information.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Ubiquitous RFID chips can reveal lots of private info, so EU may regulate their manufacture if vendors don't step up with their own efforts.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Europeans need to be reassured that radio frequency identification chips won't betray their privacy and can be turned off if desired, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Symantec, McAfee and other security vendors to gain access to information needed to make their products work with Vista's security features.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to deliver the new Windows Vista operating system to its volume license customers around the world in November and to the general public in January.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/13/2006
Company says changes to OS will also be made to accommodate EU, Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/13/2006
Microsoft officially ended support for SP1 and SP1a on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/12/2006
Long beta testing phases planned for exams aimed at Windows Mobile application developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/12/2006
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the static random access memory market, communications chip-maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006
Call them the M & Ms -- Microsoft and Mozilla, that is. Both are readying major new versions of their browsers --Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 -- for release in the next few weeks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/12/2006