Microsoft is to cut a third of its staff, or 168 positions, as it restructures its troubled television business.
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Netscape Communications, a division of AOL Time Warner, filed suit against Microsoft on Tuesday, claiming that the software giant's business practices have harmed it.
The lawsuit is based on previous court findings that Microsoft's business practices amid the infamous browser wars of the 1990s violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
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The lawsuit is based on previous court findings that Microsoft's business practices amid the infamous browser wars of the 1990s violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Thanks Christopher for this one:
It's a high tech David vs. Goliath -- a lone Bay Area man is suing Microsoft.
The case centers on a spoof on small computing devices. Ken Belanger invented the toy in 1985, and gave it a clever name.
I came up with 'Pocket PC,' he said. It only has one bit, a one and a zero. And I even made a joke book about it.
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It's a high tech David vs. Goliath -- a lone Bay Area man is suing Microsoft.
The case centers on a spoof on small computing devices. Ken Belanger invented the toy in 1985, and gave it a clever name.
I came up with 'Pocket PC,' he said. It only has one bit, a one and a zero. And I even made a joke book about it.
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Blaming the global economic slowdown and reporting that business conditions remain difficult, IBM and Microsoft have given cautious outlooks for the first half of 2002.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has signed a multi-million pound licensing agreement with Microsoft covering its 75,000 desktops, Computing can reveal.
The deal is likely to be the first of many among the big financial institutions and other High Street banks are already in negotiations.
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The deal is likely to be the first of many among the big financial institutions and other High Street banks are already in negotiations.
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Aiming to provide software for the enterprise market in China, Microsoft has established its first joint venture in the country.
The venture, to be called Zhongguancun Software Co., joins the software giant with China's Beijing Centergate Technology (Centek) and Stone Group, the companies said in a statement this week.
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The venture, to be called Zhongguancun Software Co., joins the software giant with China's Beijing Centergate Technology (Centek) and Stone Group, the companies said in a statement this week.
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After a five-day outage, Microsoft fixed a technician's error Tuesday, allowing Windows users to once again access critical operating system updates on the company's Web site.
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Microsoft on Monday launched new tools for linking its Office desktop software into its growing .Net Web services plan.
The company posted two tools for free download on its Web site: the Office XP Web Services Toolkit and the Smart Tag Enterprise Resource Toolkit. Both tools let developers link Office, which controls more than 90 percent of the desktop business software market, into Web services developed using .Net.
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The company posted two tools for free download on its Web site: the Office XP Web Services Toolkit and the Smart Tag Enterprise Resource Toolkit. Both tools let developers link Office, which controls more than 90 percent of the desktop business software market, into Web services developed using .Net.
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AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system.
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Microsoft asked a federal judge on Friday to extend by another four months the scheduled date for a remedy hearing in its landmark antitrust trial.
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Less than two months after the launch of its new Windows XP operating system, Microsoft has reshuffled a few high-ranking executives in its flagship Windows unit.
The reordering at the division also affects the software giant's wireless-software group. Rogers Weed, who handled marketing for that group, replaces John Frederiksen, a top executive who led the marketing effort for Windows XP.
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The reordering at the division also affects the software giant's wireless-software group. Rogers Weed, who handled marketing for that group, replaces John Frederiksen, a top executive who led the marketing effort for Windows XP.
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Bank One, the nation's sixth-biggest bank holding company, has struck a $30 million deal to use Microsoft products and services, giving a boost to the software giant's emerging Internet services and business products, the companies said Friday.
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Microsoft on Thursday said a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan.
Microsoft said the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), an international technology standards organization, has ratified Microsoft's C# (pronounced see sharp), a Java-like programming language, along with a component of its .Net Web services framework called the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
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Microsoft said the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), an international technology standards organization, has ratified Microsoft's C# (pronounced see sharp), a Java-like programming language, along with a component of its .Net Web services framework called the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
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Members of the Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee voiced serious concerns Wednesday over a settlement deal announced last month between Microsoft and the Justice Department and nine states.
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Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Corona, a new package of digital media products it hopes will help let the Internet deliver theater-quality entertainment to consumers and big profits to content providers.
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Aiming to push its Windows Media technology deeper into consumer electronics, Microsoft plans to announce Tuesday that the audio and video formats soon will be supported by several DVD chipmakers.
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Microsoft on Monday filed the first of two legal briefs expected this week to address the pair of simultaneous tracks in its landmark antitrust case.
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WASHINGTON--A proposal greatly restricting Microsoft's businesses practices had the company's competitors and some industry trade groups singing the praises of nine state attorneys general on Friday.
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Microsoft has begun offering cash to people who use its online wallet and identity software, a little-noticed promotion that comes as a rival effort led by some of its bitterest enemies gains momentum.
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WASHINGTON--Nine states and the District of Columbia want Microsoft to open its software source code should the company fail to comply with proposed restrictions on its business practices.
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