With a $300 million ad campaign for its Internet service, the software heavyweight hopes to float like a butterfly and sting online rival AOL.
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Microsoft is bundling two free games with its game console to attract more customers during this frosty holiday season.
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ATTEMPTING TO FORTIFY its Office suite as a rich interface for Web services, Microsoft has announced a set of technologies designed to embed business process functionality into the core of its software stack.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant this week detailed a software tool, code-named XDocs, designed for the Office environment and a server offering, code-named Jupiter.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant this week detailed a software tool, code-named XDocs, designed for the Office environment and a server offering, code-named Jupiter.
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eWeek has the news that a Microsoft official has said that the company may open part of the Passport source code -- within limits, of course.
Korea Telecom inks a deal with Microsoft to license its Windows Media technology to deliver on-demand movies and TV shows to 4.4 million broadband Net subscribers in South Korea.
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Microsoft Corp. will relax restrictions on how users of its new multimedia operating system will be able to copy and distribute TV programs, the world's largest software maker said on Wednesday.
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Analysts are divided over how Microsoft's new XDocs electronic-forms software will affect Adobe Systems, which sees online forms as a new business direction.
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Several game players are left in the lurch as a result of Microsoft's apparently successful efforts to shut down one of the leading sellers of hacking tools for the game console.
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The software giant unveils new strategies for e-business servers and corporate instant messaging during its Microsoft Exchange Conference.
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Microsoft's ever colorful CEO Steve Ballmer defended the company's licensing structure, pricing for desktop version of Windows, and the software industry's use of UCITA on Wednesday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference here.
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An executive says the software maker is considering charging for extra security options and admits that the company didn't move on security until customers were ready to pay for it.
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Sketching the rough details of its vision for a connected business environment around Web services, Microsoft revealed a new e-business server project, code-name Jupiter, and gave more details around its vision for real-time computing in the enterprise.
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CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software.
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AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a new service that will allow corporate mobile phone and laptop users on the road to tap into information stored on their desktop computers using software from Microsoft Corp.
The two companies said the service, called AT&T Wireless WorkWare, will provide seamless, wireless access to software giant Microsoft's applications so users can retrieve e-mail, schedule book, and documents behind corporate firewalls.
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The two companies said the service, called AT&T Wireless WorkWare, will provide seamless, wireless access to software giant Microsoft's applications so users can retrieve e-mail, schedule book, and documents behind corporate firewalls.
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Microsoft Corp. will slip out an interim desktop version of its Windows operating system before 2004 under pressure from some customers who signed up for its new enterprise licensing plan, several analysts predict. Microsoft's current roadmap calls for the next release of Windows for the desktop to appear in the second half of 2004, officials say. That release is code-named Longhorn, and Microsoft has promised to pack a number of new technologies into the operating system that coincide with its Web-based .Net initiative.
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The software giant plans to add to its arsenal of Web services tools on Tuesday, when the company officially unveils Content Management Server 2002.
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The company will announce plans to add new features to the Web-based version of the Outlook e-mail program that will make it as comprehensive as the regular PC version.
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The company appears to have shut down one of the largest distributors of "mod chips"--add-ons that allow Xbox and other video game consoles to play pirated games.
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Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley has the scoop on what might be Microsoft's next big content push, this time in an attempt to support flagging interest in its Tablet PC initiative.
Marking a dramatic turnabout in its cumbersome consumer Web strategy, the software giant plans to launch MSN 8, the next version of its online service, on Oct. 24.
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