David Vaskevitch, chief technology officer of the company, praises his Blackberry and iPod and says he always carries them while traveling.
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Twenty years on from his first address at Comdex, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates this year used his keynote speech to reminisce and found that some software challenges from the 1980s still exist. He also announced new technologies to solve some of today's problems.
Originally slated to launch at Comdex, the SPOT watch designed by Microsoft Corp. and its partners has been delayed until the first quarter of 2004 to accommodate further testing.
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Microsoft is beginning to beta test The Windows Security Update CD. The CD sounds like Microsoft's recently released XP Security Rollup offering, a collection of 22 previously released critical security patches that is available to Windows Update customers.
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Downloaders are discovering some problems with the latest bunch of security patches that Microsoft delivered on Tuesday.
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Microsoft is in talks with governments and companies in several countries to establish partnerships to help protect computer users against cyber attacks, it said Friday.
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Microsoft is bound to play a growing role in enterprise telephony systems over the next few years, helping them to evolve beyond the simple features such as speed dial, conference call and voice mail most companies know today. What is less clear is what that role will be.
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PDAToday send words that Microsoft is hosting a User Group Tour
This week, various members of the Microsoft faithful are out in latte land, hitting a couple of key conferences: the Professional Association SQL Server (PASS) and Microsoft DriverDevCon.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Microsoft defended its business practices Wednesday during a three-day hearing here in front of European competition regulators, in a final attempt to persuade them that it isn't breaking the European Union's antitrust laws.
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The software giant introduces tools to ease database administration for both the current and forthcoming edition of its SQL Server database.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is now re-examining the Web-browser patent upon which Microsoft allegedly infringed with its ActiveX technology (and for which a jury awarded Eolas $521 million).
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Microsoft launched officially its Systems Management Server 2003 product on Tuesday. Microsoft is positioning SMS 2003 as one of the first Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) deliverables. Microsoft's Automated Deployments Services add-on to Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2004 (which is in beta now) are other products in the DSI fold.
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The hardware maker says its server management tools, which integrate with the software giant's products, will help simplify information management operations and lower maintenance costs.
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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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