Microsoft and partner OD2 choose Europe as the launch pad for an iTunes-like digital download store that sells songs via a tab in Media Player software.
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The Australian government will gain access to the source code underlying Microsoft's Windows operating system after signing an agreement with the software heavyweight.
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A heavy hint at the release date for Microsoft Office 2003 and its pricing in the United Kingdom have appeared online, in what appears to be an e-commerce mix-up.
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The giant hopes to be ready when hundreds of thousands of computers infected with the MSBlast worm start pelting its Windows Update service with data requests on midnight Friday.
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This one's not over yet (And by the time it is, ActiveX will probably be a dead technology, anyway.) Eolas, the company that sued Microsoft back in 1999 for alleged violation of its browser plug-in patent, was awarded $521 million by a Chicago jury on Monday. Microsoft was quick to point out that the award was substantially less than the $1.2 billion that Eolas had sought. And Redmond officials already are working on an appeal.
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A top executive has left Motorola to head the software giant's operations in China, according to a report.
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Thanks Mark for this one:
Microsoft's new computer mice, due in September, will take scrolling in a new directionsideways.
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Microsoft Corp. wants more details on how its products are used so it can make its applications "almost entirely crash-free" and build features users want, the company said Monday.
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Microsoft is preparing to launch next month the beta for Microsoft Installer 3.0. The new software-installation program is a key component of Microsoft's evolving strategy to simplify patch-management across its entire product line.
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With Office 2003, Microsoft will give certain Office Standard Edition users the right to order Office Professional Edition applications at no extra cost.
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Analysts expect Microsoft to reveal within the next few weeks the pricing of and a release date for the updated version of its Office software.
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The software giant announces the cost for Live Communications Server 2003, its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging application.
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Microsoft is boasting that it has surpassed Java usage with .Net and is preparing to make its application development platform more conducive to Web services.
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With pressure from European antitrust regulators mounting, the software giant's bid to make its multimedia technology a worldwide standard may be running into a headwind.
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The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications.
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BRUSSELS - The European Commission (EC) could fine Microsoft up to 10 percent of its global annual sales for monopoly offenses, it said Wednesday.
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In a brief security lapse, early testers of Microsoft software had access to discussions on all of the company's products, rather than just the programs they were trying out.
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The European Commission (EC) said Wednesday that it is giving Microsoft a final opportunity to comment before it makes a ruling in its four-year antitrust probe of the software maker, and added that it believes Microsoft's abuses "are still ongoing."
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