The Chinese government has set up a lab to study Microsoft Windows source code, a result of the software maker's campaign to combat the spread of open-source software in Asia.
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Selected beta testers already have been working with Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services for several months. But Microsoft is poised to open up the beta to a larger group next month, according to this notice posted on Neowin.
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Just a few days before Microsoft is set to launch the next version of Windows XP Media Center, Dell shows off a copycat version of the product that is its own creation. "The "Dell Media Experience" is based on Windows XP Home Edition, rather than on Windows XP Professional, like Media Center is.
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Microsoft said on Thursday that it has appointed Maria Martinez, a former Motorola executive, to serve as a vice president in its Communications and Mobile Solutions Unit.
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The software giant is ending a two-year-old broadband access deal with BellSouth, as it continues to reposition its MSN service for the high-speed Internet.
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On Oct. 14, the software giant will shut down its MSN chat services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and much of Latin America, forcing millions of message board users to find alternative online forums to discuss the topics of the day.
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On Tuesday, the day of the AMD Athlon 64 launch, Microsoft announced that it had released a beta of the so-called "Windows XP 64 Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems." Microsoft says it won't be shipping a final release of its Windows desktop release for Athlon or its server release for AMD Opteron until "the first half of 2004." Our guess: mid-year.
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Late last week, with no advance notice, Redmond added to its Software Update Services patch mechanism the ability to push entire service packs to customers.
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Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), a k a "Palladium," includes a hardware component, too. And ExtremeTech, fresh from the Intel Developers Forum, has got lots of details about Intel's secretive LaGrande Project.
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Microsoft announced this week that 14 software vendors have signed up to become early adopters of the Microsoft Business Framework, a layer of software that builds on top of the .Net Framework.
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Microsoft's forthcoming Office 2003 suite offers enterprises a promise few vendors or analysts are willing to support.
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The company is set to start charging a subscription fee for MSN Mobile, a service that lets customers check their MSN e-mail and other services through Web-enabled cell phones.
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An SEC filing shows that Microsoft's top executives all saw their salary and bonus inch up last year and lays out one shareholder's bid to buck the software giant.
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NEW YORK -- In a rare display of public camaraderie, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and IBM Software Chief Steve Mills further cemented the commitment of their respective companies to work together to accelerate the creation and adoption of key Web services standards and the resulting applications.
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The software giant says it will add two new board members to its current roster of eight, the company's effort to strengthen its corporate governance.
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Microsoft has lined up several small-biz announcements this week. On Tuesday, the Redmondiands announced that the company has released to manufacturing Windows Small Business Server 2003. (The official launch of the product isn't until October 9 at Microsoft's worldwide partner conference, however.) Microsoft's also flogging MapPoint 2004 and Office 2003 Small Business Edition this week.
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The software company gets ready to send manufacturers the revamped Small Business Server 2003, which includes a cheaper version of the server-based Windows and Exchange bundle.
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The software giant announces new gear that uses the 802.11g standard. The company had initially passed on the technology, losing market share as a result.
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