The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving his post with the software maker to start his own business, Microsoft people aware of the situation said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
Get ready for an anti-climactic Patch Tuesday. Following on the heels of last month’s gonzo Patch Tuesday event -- wherein Microsoft Corp. released 12 new patches – Redmond this month doesn’t plan to patch any security-related flaws.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/08/2007
Literally just in time, Microsoft is shipping a patch for its Dynamics CRM 3.0 package that adjusts for the Daylight Saving Time (DST) changeover coming this weekend.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/08/2007
The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Most people just grumble and hit delete, but when Gordon Dick received a spam message advertising Internet services, he fought back.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/07/2007
Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista -- as promised.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/07/2007
Microsoft shows off cutting-edge software inventions at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/06/2007
Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/06/2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that its FRx Software subsidiary will ship a significant update to its budgeting and planning tool for organizations this spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/06/2007
An update still hasn't resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/06/2007
A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Wal-Mart fires systems technician for recording of phone conversations and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
New study says that we're running out of storage for all that online information.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves."
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2007
Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Microsoft is asking rivals to pay too much for information that can help software interoperate, claims European Union commissioner.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007