A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/26/2006
Partway into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/26/2006
Blue Pill is easier to swallow now that the trick has been more closely scrutinized. Plus, a look at what's on your hard drives that you thought you erased.
With Windows Vista nearly ready for rollout, two of Microsoft's “frenemies” -- Adobe and Symantec -- are taking their complaints of bundling to the European Commission, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/21/2006
Included with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is a new tool for aiding help desk personnel in recovering from installations of the new system that have gone south.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/20/2006
Windows CE 6.0, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded device operating system, has been released to manufacturing -- "RTM" in Microsoft lingo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/20/2006
Microsoft is shipping Beta 2 of its new System Center Essentials 2007 systems management product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/19/2006
Create a customizable ADO search box.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 09/18/2006
Microsoft is shipping the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Server "Longhorn," according to statements posted on a company blog last weekend.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/14/2006
One of the last remaining consumer class-action antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft Corp. in a state court is set to go to trial in November, and Bill Gates is on the witness list.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/13/2006
Microsoft announced Tuesday that veteran manager Satya Nadella will succeed Doug Burgum as head of the company's Business Solutions group, which develops and markets the Dynamics brand of small and mid-sized business applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/12/2006
Why scripting makes for a poor software deployment tool.
As expected, Microsoft has widened the availability of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to users who participated in the Vista Beta 2 testing program last spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/07/2006
Microsoft is rebranding its Retail Management System to become another
offering in its line of Microsoft Dynamics business products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/07/2006
Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated this week a single client agent providing interoperability between the software giant's coming Network Access Protection (NAP) and the networking behemoth's Network Admission Control (NAC) protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2006