Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that the software giant was "dedicated from the top down" to meeting settlement guidelines from a federal antitrust ruling against the company.
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ExtremeTech take an in-depth look at new details on how Microsoft intends to enact its "secure platform" initiative.
ViewSonic plans to announce on Tuesday the details of some of its first portable displays that will use Microsoft software to expand how PCs are used in the home.
The Walnut, Calif.-based monitor maker's new devices will use Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays software, technology previously code-named Mira. So-called smart displays are portable monitors that can communicate wirelessly with a PC. With a stylus, a person can surf the Web or respond to e-mail using the monitor's touch screen.
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The Walnut, Calif.-based monitor maker's new devices will use Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays software, technology previously code-named Mira. So-called smart displays are portable monitors that can communicate wirelessly with a PC. With a stylus, a person can surf the Web or respond to e-mail using the monitor's touch screen.
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Microsoft and Samsung on Monday announced they have teamed up to develop a design for low-cost handhelds, a market dominated by rival Palm.
Devices based on the design will use Microsoft's Pocket PC software and Samsung's 200MHz ARM9-based S3C2410 application processor and will have 32MB of memory. The design also calls for a 3.5-inch color or black-and-white display, Secure Digital and SDIO support, and a petite 4.1-inch-by-2.8-inch, 2.9-ounce case.
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Devices based on the design will use Microsoft's Pocket PC software and Samsung's 200MHz ARM9-based S3C2410 application processor and will have 32MB of memory. The design also calls for a 3.5-inch color or black-and-white display, Secure Digital and SDIO support, and a petite 4.1-inch-by-2.8-inch, 2.9-ounce case.
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Microsoft has released a software update to correct connection problems with network gear it unveiled in mid-September.
The fix could resolve problems in the company's 802.11b wireless, or Wi-Fi, and Ethernet hubs that either dropped connections with local computers or with Internet service providers. Users started reporting problems soon after the network gear appeared in stores around Oct. 1.
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The fix could resolve problems in the company's 802.11b wireless, or Wi-Fi, and Ethernet hubs that either dropped connections with local computers or with Internet service providers. Users started reporting problems soon after the network gear appeared in stores around Oct. 1.
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Microsoft and the Justice Department on Friday filed a revised settlement in the software giant's long-standing antitrust case.
The filing, which had been expected, incorporated changes requested by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and brings the four-and-a-half-year-old case closer to a final resolution.
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The filing, which had been expected, incorporated changes requested by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and brings the four-and-a-half-year-old case closer to a final resolution.
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Microsoft said Friday it has established a compliance committee to enforce an antitrust remedy issued a week ago by a federal judge.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company had 30 days to create the committee, made up of three Microsoft board members. James Cash, a professor at Harvard Business School and chairman of Harvard Business School publishing, will chair the committee. Cash joined Microsoft's board in June 2001.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based company had 30 days to create the committee, made up of three Microsoft board members. James Cash, a professor at Harvard Business School and chairman of Harvard Business School publishing, will chair the committee. Cash joined Microsoft's board in June 2001.
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eWeek has posted an article on Longhorn
The head of Microsoft's Xbox business in Japan will step down and move to the U.S. headquarters, marking uncertainty over the fate of the company's already-weak Japanese game operations.
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Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley breaks the news on Microsoft's big push into what was publishing's darling, Adobe's PDF standard.
MICROSOFT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING Chairman Bill Gates, will reveal details of improvements planned for the Visual C++ .Net and Visual C# .Net programming languages at a conference in Seattle on Friday.
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It will be up to state prosecutors to enforce antitrust sanctions against Microsoft Corp. that go beyond the company's settlement with the Justice Department, the department's chief antitrust enforcer said on Thursday.
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A FREE VIDEO game that will be available for Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system Thursday, when hardware makers debut new portable computers based on the operating system at a splashy New York event, highlights the pen-based features that more important business applications will take advantage of.
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U.K. handset maker Sendo said Thursday it has dropped Microsoft's smart phone software.
Sendo, one of the earliest hardware partners for Microsoft's Smartphone, will instead license the Symbian operating system, which is backed by all the major handset makers. It will also license Nokia's Series 60 user interface, designed for Symbian.
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Sendo, one of the earliest hardware partners for Microsoft's Smartphone, will instead license the Symbian operating system, which is backed by all the major handset makers. It will also license Nokia's Series 60 user interface, designed for Symbian.
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ZDNet has posted a news story on Palladium
Shares in Adobe Systems dropped Tuesday after a banking analyst issued a report saying the publishing-software giant may be hurt by last week's settlement of Microsoft's antitrust case.
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eWeek's Anne Chen takes a look at Microsoft's Directory Services and who uses them now and in the future.
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Saw over NeoWin that Microsoft is looking for Office 11 Beta 2 testers
MICROSOFT, which expressed pleasure with Judge Kollar-Kotelly's antitrust ruling in the U.S. on Friday, is likely to be disappointed in its hopes that the U.S. ruling will set the tone for a similar ruling from European antitrust regulators, according to the software giant's critics.
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A federal judge Friday largely accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case with the U.S. Justice Department.
U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said sanctions against the software giant are to last five years unless extended by the court.
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U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said sanctions against the software giant are to last five years unless extended by the court.
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