Microsoft Corp. issued seven patches to fix a variety of flaws, five of which the company has deemed "critical" -- its highest security rating.
Adesso Systems, Inc. will use Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference, which kicks off in Boston on Tuesday, to raise the curtains on its first partner program aimed at developers looking to create Web-based mobile and distributed applications.
Microsoft streamlines its training and sales divisions and gets beat on by the EU and South Korea. Also, IE7 beta 3 ships and Office 2007 is delayed.
European Commission to levy more fines against Microsoft due to noncompliance with EU antitrust order to share information with rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to close an undisclosed number of offices worldwide over the next four years to cut real estate costs.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
An FBI computer consultant gained access to the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others using free software found on the Internet, the latest embarrassment in the bureau's long struggle to modernize its computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
Microsoft said this week it has started an open-source project on the SourceForge collaborative software development management site to create free translators that can transform Office Open XML documents into OpenDocument format and vice versa.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/06/2006
Unified communications experts who pass Exam 70-262 will earn coveted MCTS title.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/06/2006
Britain's top law enforcement official on Thursday approved the extradition to the United States of an alleged computer hacker accused of damaging U.S. military systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
Microsoft is shipping a free downloadable tool to let users create a private folder where they can store sensitive files.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/06/2006
Lucid8 LLC announced last week it is shipping the latest update to its DigiVault continuous data protection and disaster recovery package for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/05/2006
Altiris, Inc., last week announced the Altiris Endpoint Security Solution, a package meant to help IT set a balance between security and business productivity.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/05/2006
Seoul High Court shoots down request for a stay on sanction against the Redmond giant for antitrust.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/04/2006
In a major step toward new penalties against Microsoft Corp., Europe's antitrust regulators voted unanimously Monday in favor of fining the world's largest software company for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2006
A U.S. magistrate has struck down many of the SCO Group Inc.'s claims against IBM Corp., saying the Utah company failed to show its intellectual property was misappropriated when Big Blue donated software code to the freely distributed Linux operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2006
A federal judge has dismissed Go Computer Inc.'s antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2006
Data storage provider EMC Corp. saw its stock dive Friday after announcing a $2.1 billion deal for RSA Security Inc. that represented a hefty premium for the computer authentication provider.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2006
Redmond cutting 148 total U.S. sales jobs, as part of efforts to be more efficient.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/30/2006
A federal judge has dismissed Go Computer Inc.'s antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/30/2006
U.S. magistrate strikes down many of SCO Group's claims against IBM, saying SCO failed to show intellectual property was misappropriated when IBM donated code to Linux operating system project.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/30/2006