Microsoft's programming language is set to get ISO approval, which it hopes will help it win over corporations and governments
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A preview of an upcoming version of Microsoft's MSN service has leaked onto the Web, offering an early glimpse of the software giant's ever-evolving online strategy.
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A new version of Microsoft's operating system for small devices, due in June, can be used to make IP phones, the software maker will reveal Wednesday.
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Microsoft will not include InfoPath and OneNote as part of the Office suite sold at retail or installed on new computers, the company will disclose Wednesday.
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After trying for three years to explain what ".Net" is, Microsoft seems to be throwing in the towel.
Redmond's latest plan seems to be to faze out the .Net brand, while embedding the .Net bits into the next versions of all of the company's core products.
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Redmond's latest plan seems to be to faze out the .Net brand, while embedding the .Net bits into the next versions of all of the company's core products.
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Three-fourths of software security experts at major companies do not believe Microsoft's products are secure, according to a new survey from Forrester Research.
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Microsoft seems to have learned a lesson from decision to remove ".Net" from the Windows Server 2003 name: Don't invite publicity around an acknowledgement that your publicity crew went overboard.
As a result, the software giant is continuing its drive to clarify and trim back its .Net naming convention. But rather than doing so with a lot of fanfare, Microsoft is reducing quietly its use of the term.
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As a result, the software giant is continuing its drive to clarify and trim back its .Net naming convention. But rather than doing so with a lot of fanfare, Microsoft is reducing quietly its use of the term.
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Just a few weeks after Microsoft released the beta of its much anticipated "Greenwich" real-time collaboration server software, one of the company's lead program managers, David Gurle, is leaving Microsoft to head up the collaboration program at Reuters Group.
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More than five years after it started, the Microsoft vs DoJ case is still going strong, with an appeal hearing expected this summer
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Windows Server 2003 will be launched in 'modules' in an effort to make Microsoft as responsive as the open-source community to development issues
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Months of speculation regarding Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), a k a "Palladium," will end in May, when
Microsoft provides the first live demonstrations of the technology at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
WinHEC, slated for early May in New Orleans, is typically where Microsoft shows off new operating system advances to its hardware partners.
"We will be having a big coming-out showing on NGSCB at WinHEC," says NGSCB group product manager Mario Juarez.
Microsoft could fold NGS CB support into "Longhorn," the Windows release expected in 2005. It's unclear if NGSCB would be part of the client, server or both releases. Microsoft said last week that the company is contemplating releasing a "Limited Edition" release of Longhorn server that would be timed to hit around the same time as the desktop version."
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Microsoft provides the first live demonstrations of the technology at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
WinHEC, slated for early May in New Orleans, is typically where Microsoft shows off new operating system advances to its hardware partners.
"We will be having a big coming-out showing on NGSCB at WinHEC," says NGSCB group product manager Mario Juarez.
Microsoft could fold NGS CB support into "Longhorn," the Windows release expected in 2005. It's unclear if NGSCB would be part of the client, server or both releases. Microsoft said last week that the company is contemplating releasing a "Limited Edition" release of Longhorn server that would be timed to hit around the same time as the desktop version."
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What happened to the yellow-brick road that was leading to Blackcomb in 2006?
It's time for Microsoft to generate one of its trusty MapPoint and plot a clear course for Windows.
The starting point is (mostly) certain: Windows Server 2003 (which still has not been released to manufacturing, by the way) will launch on April 24. Whether all of the various SKUs (Web, Standard, 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, and 32-bit and 64-bit Datacenter) will start shipping preloaded on various servers on that exact date is another question.
But after the 24th, it's anyone's guess. It's not just dates that are all over the map. Even the actual product set does not seem to be set in stone.
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It's time for Microsoft to generate one of its trusty MapPoint and plot a clear course for Windows.
The starting point is (mostly) certain: Windows Server 2003 (which still has not been released to manufacturing, by the way) will launch on April 24. Whether all of the various SKUs (Web, Standard, 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, and 32-bit and 64-bit Datacenter) will start shipping preloaded on various servers on that exact date is another question.
But after the 24th, it's anyone's guess. It's not just dates that are all over the map. Even the actual product set does not seem to be set in stone.
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When Microsoft releases in June the next update of its Microsoft Office suite, a new version tailored for small and medium businesses (SMBs) will be added to the product line, according to Microsoft.
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Kevin Johnson, an 11-year Microsoft veteran who has led the company's North and Latin America sales team, will become group vice president of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services. Johnson replaces Orlando Ayala, who earlier this month was appointed to lead Microsoft's worldwide small and midmarket solutions and partners division.
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The 32bit versions of Windows Server 2003 will run on all x86 processors, including AMD's Opteron, which has both 32bit and 64bit modes. But the two high-end versions of the operating system due out on 24 April will only support Itanium.
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Leeds University is linking up with Microsoft to offer undergraduates what it says will be the UK's first computing module on writing secure code
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While Microsoft mulls its broadband strategy for MSN, America Online launched its first volley in the space on Monday.
AOL is rolling out a new campaign aimed at increasing its visibility in the broadband space. As part of this new "Welcome to the World Wide Wow" initiative, AOL is currently beta testing a new version of its client, dubbed America Online 8.0 Plus, which brings AOL to par many of the features in MSN 8. The updated AOL software is set to be released on March 31.
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AOL is rolling out a new campaign aimed at increasing its visibility in the broadband space. As part of this new "Welcome to the World Wide Wow" initiative, AOL is currently beta testing a new version of its client, dubbed America Online 8.0 Plus, which brings AOL to par many of the features in MSN 8. The updated AOL software is set to be released on March 31.
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The latest test version of Microsoft Office 2003 could cause problems for antivirus companies because the XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, according to security experts.
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Two Microsoft officials have abruptly quit a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) panel on Web services choreography as abruptly as they had joined.
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ORLANDO - Microsoft is out to convince software vendors that they should join 'em, rather than try to beat 'em.
Microsoft has kicked off at the start of March a road show designed, ultimately, to get independent software vendors (ISVs) to build into their future products so they embed some or all of Microsoft's underlying software stack. Microsoft is providing attendees with a two-day strategy and product roadmap, emphasizing the Microsoft Business Solutions' small- and mid-size business products.
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Microsoft has kicked off at the start of March a road show designed, ultimately, to get independent software vendors (ISVs) to build into their future products so they embed some or all of Microsoft's underlying software stack. Microsoft is providing attendees with a two-day strategy and product roadmap, emphasizing the Microsoft Business Solutions' small- and mid-size business products.
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