European Union fined Microsoft 899 million Euros for failure to comply with the EU's 2004 finding that Redmond was engaged in monopolistic practices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/27/2008
On-again, off-again partners Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are as cozy as ever again.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/26/2008
IE ESC -- hard to get rid of, hard to find.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/25/2008
It's no "reduced functionality mode"; still, Microsoft has other tricks to encourage those using pirated copies of Vista to upgrade to legitimate versions.
While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2008
Microsoft Corp. today released a list of known programs that experience some sort of "loss of functionality" with Windows Vista SP1.
Microsoft is stopping automatic distribution of an update required to install Vista SP1 following reports of faulty reboots on some machines.
Company's upcoming Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 now under Windows Essential Server Solutions umbrella.
Also: Chinese bloggers get DDOS'd; Microsoft does its part to warn users on legacy file support; Sears doesn't come clean on privacy.
Windows Update Agent shines like a gem in the rough, its brilliance even more evident when set next to SCE.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/20/2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.
Migration to the Windows Vista operating system apparently isn't generating much enthusiasm among IT personnel in the enterprise.
Microsoft announced the recent promotions of 14 executives, seven to senior vice president positions and seven others to corporate vice president.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2008
Timed with the 2008 Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona this week, Microsoft made announcements pushing its interests further into the consumer and global mobile market.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.