After outrage from many of its own employees over its abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger, Microsoft has formulated a new policy to deal with requests from a government that alleges posted material violates its laws.
Microsoft Corp. is telling new corporate customers to update versions of its Office suite and Access software package following a 2005 patent infringement ruling that required Microsoft to remove the patented software from its products.
Microsoft and European Commission officials planned a meeting in Redmond, Wash., as the software giant tries to avoid the possibility of a daily 2-million-euro fine, a Microsoft official says.
The company says it will soon release the first CTP of Visual Studio Tools for Applications, discusses its VSTS philosophy and demonstrates partner technology at the conference.
Detailed discussion of the measured productivity gains for employees using a tablet PC at Microsoft. The study compares results from recent and past surveys to draw specific productivity variance conclusions.
Microsoft IT to manage specific remote desktop configurations, ensuring that all established security requirements are met when remote users access corporate network resources.
Detailed discussion on how Microsoft configures ISA Server 2004 with Service Pack 2 to protect corporate resources while providing employees access to the internet and remote access to its corporate network.
Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT used the full-text search feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to significantly increase the speed of document indexing and retrieval for the internal document management service at Microsoft.
BTS 2002 SP1 contains a collection of hotfixes and security fixes, as well as support for Windows Server 2003. Before installing BizTalk Server 2002 SP1, it is strongly recommended that you carefully review the documentation.
The new unit, the Unified Communications Group, will become part of Microsoft's Business Division. The shift is expected to have no impact on the timing for the next generation of products under development, the company says.
S. Somasegar will discuss the component of Visual Studio Team System as a collaboration platform during his keynote at the VSLive conference in San Francisco.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is planning this week to unveil the company's strategy for the government IT market, an intensely competitive area that has seen open-source software gain a strong foothold.