Two years after conceding his company erred in not developing its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
From the business wires this week: a server password management app, .NET rules and Group Policy tools, an enterprise security report solution, and more.
One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
Product life-cycle management (PLM) applications vendor UGS and Microsoft announced this week a multi-year alliance through which they will collaborate to host the smaller company’s suite of products entirely on Windows -- a first, they say.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2006
The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
In the past year, Microsoft held discussions with search engine competitor Yahoo regarding a possible buyout, or taking a stake in its rival, according to published reports this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2006
Microsoft and partner SAP on Tuesday said they are still on schedule to ship their “Project Mendocino” integration product in June.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2006
Microsoft opens up exam discounts to registered members of its Partner program, allows discount to be combined with exam retake offer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/03/2006
Network administration software vendor ScriptLogic announced this week it is shipping the latest revision of its security compliance and auditing solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2006
Research firm predicts release of Vista in late spring of 2007; Microsoft thinks it can make early 2007.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Trying to increase demand for personal computers in India and other emerging markets, Intel Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to promote the use of computers in schools, cafes and other public spots in developing countries.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Truce in lawsuit will have company paying out $70 million to California government agencies.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Microsoft is shipping a packaged solution meant to enable third-parties to easily offer hosted application services via the Web.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/02/2006
An influential analyst firm is predicting that the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system will come out even later than Microsoft has already forecast.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2, an update to the company’s main virtualization platform that will add support for hardware virtualization in both Intel and AMD processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/02/2006
No one can quite agree on whether Microsoft Corp. held its first online advertising summit in a conference room or a cafeteria, but what everyone does remember is how little attention was paid to the field just seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Microsoft Corp. will pay $70 million to thousands of California government agencies in the latest legal settlement spurred by price-gouging allegations against the world's largest computer software maker.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006