They give their endorsement to the software giant's plan to start awarding restricted stock to employees instead of granting stock options.
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If it materializes as planned, Microsoft Research's Wallop could pull together blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, instant messaging and e-mail into a unified social-networking product.
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As the software giant swings to monthly releases of software patches, security professionals say the effect is likely to be neutral--and may actually make some things harder.
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Microsoft launched a new Web site Monday intended to help popularize games made to run on the Windows XP operating system
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Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements.
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At the end of last week, Microsoft quietly completed its acquisition of Hong Kong-based Creature House, a vendor of Windows and MacOS animation tools. Some Microsoft Watchers are wondering whether the deal is related somehow to "Sparkle," Microsoft's "Flash Killer."
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Microsoft released to manufacturing its Virtual PC 2004, one piece of the Connectix product line the Redmond software vendor acquired back in February. The extent to which Microsoft will support non-Windows operating systems has been up for debate. First and foremost, Microsoft is positioning Virtual PC as a way for its own customer base to migrate to the latest version of Windows.
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The software giant will more actively participate in the creation of the chips that go inside the next version of its Xbox gaming console.
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Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer.
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Microsoft releases one of the first "Solution Accelerator" packages for Office 2003, aimed at helping sales professionals create better proposals.
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Microsoft Corp. is readying the release of Virtual PC 2004, a virtualization product that allows users to run multiple operating systems on the same computer simultaneously.
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Redmond's readying a Macromedia "Flash killer" that could debut before Longhorn, according to sources.
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It's been a year since Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and declared a new chapter in the history of personal computing to be starting. The platform hasn't caught on as fast as its biggest cheerleader was perhaps hoping, but despite a quiet first year few are willing to dismiss the platform just yet.
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Microsoft's small/mid-size business division Microsoft Business Solutions has set an ambitious schedule for itself for the next few years.
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Microsoft's second-generation Xbox game console will indeed contain a PowerPC microprocessor, sources confirmed Monday.
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The software giant will offer two $250,000 bounties for information that leads to the arrest of those who released the MSBlast worm and the Sobig virus, CNET News.com has learned.
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Taiwanese chipmaker Silicon Integrated Systems will help create input/output chips for the Xbox, another significant step in the makeover of Microsoft's gaming box.
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The software giant says a Swisscom subsidiary will test its new Internet-based TV technology to deliver video on telecommunications systems and into some of its 200,000 broadband households.
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The company announces that its chips based on the latest Wi-Fi standard are being used in Microsoft's networking gear.
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The software giant releases server software that allows workers to restrict access to documents created in Office and other applications.
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