Microsoft will announce on Tuesday availability of new personal entertainment software for Windows XP, featuring fresh tools for handling music, movies and photos on the PC.
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Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
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The software maker debuted Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0, a package of add-ons to its .Net software that adhere to the latest standards on security, message routing and transmitting file attachments via Web services. Developers can download the software for free and work with it in conjunction with Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net development tool bundle.
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Microsoft said Thursday that it has completed a $96 million acquisition of Vicinity, the maker of online mapping service Mapblast.com.
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Microsoft should see its current quarter results lifted by the strong holiday season performance of its Xbox video game console and related game software, an analyst said Wednesday.
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Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley breaks the news that Microsoft may bar PC manufacturers from offering systems that boot into more than one version of Windows -- even as anti-trust settlements state that the company cannot prevent the sale of systems that boot into Windows and a non-Microsoft operating system.
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Citigroup wasn't ready to stop using Windows NT or 2000. So it and other large companies forced Microsoft to extend support.
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MICROSOFT ON TUESDAY rolled out a set of architectural guidelines to help IT managers in larger companies build and manage working datacenters made up of Windows and non-Windows technologies.
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The German government is worried about federal agencies adopting Microsoft's upcoming Palladium security technology, fearing the system could lead to higher costs.
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U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz's remarks during closing arguments in the preliminary injunction hearing here Thursday between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offered an indication of his ideas of fair play.
"There's still something about this. Š I called it a social issue, but it's even a moral issue. You could be paid for your damages and the loss of your market but it's also about pride and product," the judge told Lloyd "Rusty" Day, an attorney for Sun, during his closing remarks.
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"There's still something about this. Š I called it a social issue, but it's even a moral issue. You could be paid for your damages and the loss of your market but it's also about pride and product," the judge told Lloyd "Rusty" Day, an attorney for Sun, during his closing remarks.
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MICROSOFT THURSDAY MADE available a new version of its small-business accounting software, which it is aiming at customers who don't require the heft of more extensive business software products that it sells.
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eWeek's at-the-scene reporter Darryl Taft continues to document the ongoing battle between Sun and Microsoft
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Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors said on Wednesday that the software giant's future growth would be hurt if the rival Linux operating system was to establish a foothold on desktop computers.
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Microsoft on Wednesday said it would pour more resources into its efforts to carve out a position in the $10 billion video game market rather than cutting its losses and exiting from the venture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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