Microsoft, hoping to drive greater adoption of its Windows XP operating system, will on Tuesday unveil a new central Web site with revamped tools to help IT administrators make the switch.
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Hoping to speed the integration of Windows XP into corporate environments, Microsoft on Tuesday will announce updates to a set of tools that helps administrators reduce the time it takes to deploy the operating system by streamlining the process for application compatibility testing.
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The DVD+RW Alliance announced late Monday that Microsoft had joined its ranks, adding that the software giant will also have a seat on its policy-setting team with representatives from Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Chemical/Verbatim, Philips, Ricoh, Sony, Thomson and Yamaha. The DVD+RW Alliance is a group of companies that promotes and develops the DVD+RW format.
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Microsoft plans to move further into the customer relationship management software market with a new desktop tool slated to ship later this year. The tool, called Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager and developed under the code name Iris, will enter testing next month as part of a second test release of the software giant's Office 2003 software bundle. The Redmond, Wash.-based company plans to sell the tool in addition to the standard version of Outlook already included in Office.
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The release to manufacture date for the seven flavours of Microsoft's latest server operating system means gold code should be just weeks away
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With the delivery by mid-2003 of its much anticipated and newly named Office 2003 desktop suit, the second beta of which is due in March, the company will have established a vital piece of software that could significantly increase XML adoption across the industry.
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Microsoft on Friday announced a new security technology that would allow businesses more control over who accesses documents and information stored on their computers.
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Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced a series of initiatives aimed at strengthening its relationship with the academic community, including new versions of its software, Shared Source licenses to source code, and research grants.
Microsoft announced a new version of its flagship development platform targeted at the academic world-Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic Edition-which the company will deliver through its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Academic Alliance program.
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Microsoft announced a new version of its flagship development platform targeted at the academic world-Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic Edition-which the company will deliver through its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Academic Alliance program.
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Developers and enterprise customers are getting their first glimpse of OneNote, one of two new Office 2003 applications that Microsoft accidentally posted--then quickly removed--from the Web on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Corp. has acquired the Virtual Machine assets of Connectix Corp., a privately held company in San Mateo, Calif., that has been involved in Virtual Machine (VM) technology since its inception in 1988.
One of the motivations behind the move, at least from the perspective of Microsoft's server group, is to offer a solution that will allow Microsoft customers running an NT 4 line of business applications to continue to run these as a virtual machine alongside the upcoming Windows Server 2003 product family.
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One of the motivations behind the move, at least from the perspective of Microsoft's server group, is to offer a solution that will allow Microsoft customers running an NT 4 line of business applications to continue to run these as a virtual machine alongside the upcoming Windows Server 2003 product family.
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Microsoft Corp.'s recent patent application for distributed computing around its .Net architecture has stirred concern in the industry about Microsoft's intentions.
The Redmond, Wash., company's refusal to discuss the patent has led observers to speculate that the move is intended to help ward off the threat of several open-source initiatives-specifically Mono, a project to create an open-source implementation of .Net. Others see it as a grab for control of Web services.
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The Redmond, Wash., company's refusal to discuss the patent has led observers to speculate that the move is intended to help ward off the threat of several open-source initiatives-specifically Mono, a project to create an open-source implementation of .Net. Others see it as a grab for control of Web services.
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Microsoft on Wednesday inadvertently provided developers and enterprise customers with early access to the second testing version of the next version of Office.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company posted Office 2003 Beta 2 on its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site on Wednesday, with access available to individuals or businesses subscribing to the service. But Microsoft later removed the software, after an inquiry by CNET News.com.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based company posted Office 2003 Beta 2 on its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site on Wednesday, with access available to individuals or businesses subscribing to the service. But Microsoft later removed the software, after an inquiry by CNET News.com.
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Microsoft plans to take a giant leap into the server consolidation space this week by announcing the acquisition of virtual server software company Connectix.
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With Google buying Blogger creator Pyra Labs over the weekend, many are wondering when and if Microsoft will take a similar plunge into the Weblog-tools world.
It will come as a surprise to many that, with little fanfare, Microsoft officially entered the blogging-tool space last week. At the VSLive! developer conference, Microsoft unveiled five new sample applications built on top of its ASP.Net scripting environment. One of these five - the ASP.Net Community Starter Kit - is a blog builder.
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It will come as a surprise to many that, with little fanfare, Microsoft officially entered the blogging-tool space last week. At the VSLive! developer conference, Microsoft unveiled five new sample applications built on top of its ASP.Net scripting environment. One of these five - the ASP.Net Community Starter Kit - is a blog builder.
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Microsoft plans to begin testing a radically new instant messaging and communications product next week aimed at teenagers and young adults who grew up using the Internet.
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Microsoft said on Monday that German mobile operator T-Mobile would be its second European customer for mobile phone software, while more Asian electronics makers were ready to produce handsets that use its software.
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Microsoft plans to announce this week its first product from its long-incubating NetGen unit, according to a story in Newsweek.
The new Microsoft threedegrees instant-messaging-based application, formerly code-named "Genesis," is aimed at the 13- to 24-year-old crowd. Besides facilitating small-group instant-messaging communication, threedegrees also allows participants to share music, photos and customized animations, Web reports say.
Microsoft has been working on ideas for products that would appeal to this user segment, which, the company's own research has found, spends $153 billion annually and comprises an estimated 27 percent of all Internet users.
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The new Microsoft threedegrees instant-messaging-based application, formerly code-named "Genesis," is aimed at the 13- to 24-year-old crowd. Besides facilitating small-group instant-messaging communication, threedegrees also allows participants to share music, photos and customized animations, Web reports say.
Microsoft has been working on ideas for products that would appeal to this user segment, which, the company's own research has found, spends $153 billion annually and comprises an estimated 27 percent of all Internet users.
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Microsoft is gleaning some of its best advice from the 1,300 consultants, dealers and enthusiasts the company honored this week in Redmond, Wash.
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Microsoft plans to embed a business-reporting feature into its SQL Server database software, a move that will likely cause jitters among specialized business-reporting software companies.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based company has started working with its PC partners on the updated version of Windows XP Media Center Edition, as well as soliciting beta testers. Microsoft debuted the entertainment operating system in January 2002 and shipped the software to PC makers in the third quarter of last year. The first computers running the software reached store shelves in October.
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