Companies with products that work on the Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent judgement against software behemoth Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case.
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Microsoft will release a wireless LAN adapter for the Xbox this holiday season, according to a filing for Federal Communications Commission approval for the device.
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Microsoft has posted for download the first component of its end-to-end rights-management solution.
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Microsoft Corp. refreshed its mice and keyboard lineup on Wednesday, introducing three mice with a tilting wheel for horizontal scrolling and in new styles and colors, including black leather. Two of the mice are wireless and feature new battery-saving technology.
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Digital rights management tools in Microsoft's new Office package may give the software maker a new avenue for selling server software and locking out competitors.
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The software giant tells a standards body that it's considering making changes to its Web browser in light of a recent patent infringement ruling against the company.
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Microsoft is continuing to try to make amends for one of the biggest customer-service mistakes in its history its launch of its its Software Assurance licensing program. More new concessions begin kicking in, starting September 1.
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Microsoft is making adjustments to its Windows Small Bsiness Server 2003 pricing and licensing. The goal? To appeal to smaller small businesses not to mention to try to head Linux off at the pass in the SMB space, according to Redmond officials.
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When Microsoft announced last week its intentions to phase out support for older instant-messaging clients, it failed to mention one little detail. As part of the upgrade which Redmond says it is enforcing for security reasons it is requiring any third-party messaging vendors who want to interoperate to sign a license.
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The company plans to attract small businesses with a cheaper bundle of its server operating system and its e-mail management software.
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Customers want a cumulative security-fix pack. But they want Microsoft to fix Windows, first and foremost.
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eWeek reviews Microsoft Storage Server (the product formerly known as NAS 3.0), which is due to debut officially next month, and finds the Redmondiands have made strides in scalability. Meanwhile, the SQL Server team although still a year away from unveiling its next-generation database release already is courting independent software vendors to encourage them to build applications that are compatible with "Yukon."
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The software giant is set to unveil a new version of its Internet service that it hopes will appeal to the expanding population of broadband users.
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The software powerhouse is poised for big gains as converts to Net-based phoning add advanced services like Web teleconferencing, a new IDC report suggests.
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The software giant targets students with an academic version of its new note-taking application that's designed to collect and organize notes from a variety of sources.
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There's been a lot of speculation this week on when, whether and if Microsoft will make its patch-update feature an automatic default in Windows Longhorn. (This capability already exists in XP and Windows 2000 SP3+.) But it seems the Redmond software giant already is working on making auto-update a part of current and future versions of SQL Server
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Thailand's program that brings low-cost computers to the poor could have the unintended side effect of ending Microsoft's global one-price policy, according to Gartner.
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The software maker next month will launch new software and a time-tested strategy--price undercutting--in an attempt to grab a larger share of the enterprise storage market.
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Microsoft Corp. is making changes to its MSN instant messaging (IM) service that will lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft's own Messenger client, the company said Tuesday.
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Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) is unveiling Wednesday a service to manage the deployment of Microsoft Corp. desktop applications and system software in companies and government agencies.
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