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Microsoft appoints new security chief

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-02-02 00:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Scott Charney, currently the principal for digital risk management and forensics at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will become chief security strategist on April 1, overseeing the software giant's internal and product security policies.

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Passport glitch hits Microsoft game site

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-30 16:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft's online gaming site suffered another glitch in its switch to the Passport identification system, logging subscribers on to a bogus Hotmail e-mail account Monday.

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Microsoft jump starts mobile development

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-30 15:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft plans to announce Wednesday the expansion of its program for partner companies that create hardware and software for its mobile products.

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AOL, Microsoft call truce in filing spat

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-28 21:54 by Philipp Esselbach 0

AOL Time Warner and Microsoft on Monday resolved their differences over which documents will be released as part of the ongoing litigation in the software giant's antitrust trial.

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Netscape pushing for penalties

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-23 21:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Netscape's civil lawsuit against Microsoft is a vote of no confidence in the government's handling of the case and a competitive attempt to influence the outcome of the larger antitrust trial, say analysts and legal experts.

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Microsoft cuts staff at TV unit

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-23 21:57 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft is to cut a third of its staff, or 168 positions, as it restructures its troubled television business.

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Netscape hits Microsoft with lawsuit

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-23 02:47 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft Sued for 'Pocket PC' Name

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-18 19:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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IBM and Microsoft hit by slowdown

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-18 15:43 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft tailors deal for High Street bank

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-17 17:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft teams up for China software push

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-17 16:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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.Net problems plague Microsoft

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-16 17:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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 releases new Office tools

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-14 20:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft taps biometrics for Windows

Microsoft 11986 Published 2002-01-01 00:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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MS to antitrust judge: Give us more time

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-22 21:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft reassigns Windows execs

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-20 19:50 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Microsoft, Bank One ink services pact

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-14 16:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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 gets backing for .Net tools

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-13 19:49 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Senators find flaws in Microsoft deal

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-12 20:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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MS 'Corona' -- no more buffering

Microsoft 11986 Published 2001-12-11 19:13 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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