eWeek's Darryl Taft continues his live coverage of the MS-Sun "Brawl in Balto" with word about the day's doings.
eWeek's Darryl Taft reports live from Baltimore, where the judge's questions in the Sun versus Microsoft case brought into question not only this but previous antitrust suits against the Redmond company.
Read more
Read more
eWeek's Peter Galli gets the scoop that the recent IDC paper, which claims that the total cost of ownership (TOC) for Windows beats out Linux servers, was actually sponsored by Microsoft itself.
Read more
Read more
West Virginia's attorney general said on Monday that the state will join Massachusetts in appealing a judge's decision to endorse a settlement of the Microsoft antitrust case.
Read more
Read more
Microsoft on Monday announced licensing changes for Windows .Net Server 2003, which moves to a second release candidate sometime this week.
The licensing modifications could radically change how businesses obtain client-access licenses (CALs) for future Microsoft products. The company until now has required businesses to buy a separate "per seat" license for each computer or device connecting to one of its server products.
Read more
The licensing modifications could radically change how businesses obtain client-access licenses (CALs) for future Microsoft products. The company until now has required businesses to buy a separate "per seat" license for each computer or device connecting to one of its server products.
Read more
The state of Iowa on Friday said it and six other states, plus the District of Columbia, had decided not to appeal a federal judge's endorsement of the antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Justice Department.
Read more
Read more
Saw over OSNews that seattlepi.com has posted an article on the next Windows OS
Microsoft said it plans to offer smaller companies a more lenient licensing plan intended to stem defections to Linux or other open-source software.
The software giant on Tuesday said it will launch the new plan, called Open Value, early next year. The new program is part of Microsoft's controversial Licensing 6 volume licensing program, which was put in place this summer.
Read more
The software giant on Tuesday said it will launch the new plan, called Open Value, early next year. The new program is part of Microsoft's controversial Licensing 6 volume licensing program, which was put in place this summer.
Read more
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it holds a 7.4 percent passive stake in cable operator Comcast Corp., confirming that it went ahead with plans to convert AT&T debt into the stock.
Read more
Read more
Hewlett-Packard has teamed up with Microsoft to improve the communications features for PCs, capitalizing on an emerging industry trend.
The two companies are working on a device--code-named Agora--that improves the real-time communications features of PCs, such as video conferencing and voice telephony. A prototype of the device is in the early stages of development.
Read more
The two companies are working on a device--code-named Agora--that improves the real-time communications features of PCs, such as video conferencing and voice telephony. A prototype of the device is in the early stages of development.
Read more
Microsoft and British telecom giant BT will jointly promote high-speed Internet access built around the new MSN 8 Web browser.
The deal, announced Monday, marks the first major European distributor for MSN 8, which is Microsoft's subscription-based product with enhanced Web-browsing features. Microsoft is hoping MSN 8 will bring its loss-making Internet business unit into the black.
Read more
The deal, announced Monday, marks the first major European distributor for MSN 8, which is Microsoft's subscription-based product with enhanced Web-browsing features. Microsoft is hoping MSN 8 will bring its loss-making Internet business unit into the black.
Read more
In the next 18 months Microsoft will replace BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and Content Management Server with a suite called "Jupiter."
Read more
Read more
MICROSOFT with the planned Yukon version of its SQL Server database intends to bring business intelligence to the masses, an executive of the software company said Thursday during a keynote presentation at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit conference here.
Read more
Read more
The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday picked two members of a three-person technical committee that will be responsible for enforcing the software giant's antitrust settlement.
Read more
Read more
MICROSOFT on Wednesday at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit will announce it has released beta 2 of its planned SQL Server 2000 64-bit database as well as a beta of a service pack for the existing SQL Server 2000 database.
Read more
Read more
Contrary to some reports, Microsoft says the next version of Exchange, code-named Titanium, will run on Windows 2000.
However, the company does say that some features will need .Net Server.
Read more
However, the company does say that some features will need .Net Server.
Read more
An internal alpha build of Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, made its way onto the Internet early Tuesday.
The leaked build, which is numbered 3683, appears to be from late September and sports quite a few new feature concepts—although many are not yet functional.
Read more
The leaked build, which is numbered 3683, appears to be from late September and sports quite a few new feature concepts—although many are not yet functional.
Read more
Microsoft's IT Forum, the preferred destination for European tech geeks who don’t have the budget to go to Comdex Fall 2002, opened on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read more
Read more
A panel of Microsoft executives touted the company's achievements in the area of security, but said that consumers should expect a long wait and may need to change their own behavior before the goal of "trustworthy computing," as laid out by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, is realized.
Read more
Read more
Microsoft is set to unveil on Sunday new software intended as an electronic replacement for the standard paper notebook.
OneNote, a new PC application expected to be introduced during a keynote address by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, is the Redmond, Wash.-based company's attempt to make it easy to transcribe quick notes, preserve URLs and easily find information on your hard drive.
Read more
OneNote, a new PC application expected to be introduced during a keynote address by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, is the Redmond, Wash.-based company's attempt to make it easy to transcribe quick notes, preserve URLs and easily find information on your hard drive.
Read more
