During his Comdex keynote, Microsoft Chairman Gates took the wraps off an anti-spam technology called "SmartScreen" (the same filtering technology that's part of MSN and Hotmail) for Exchange Server 2003.
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Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, code-named Stingray, will enter a public beta in early 2004, said Chairman Bill Gates during jos Comdex kick-off keynote on Sunday night.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates claims that, contrary to several reports, Microsoft did not make overtures toward Google.
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TOKYO -- Microsoft Corp. and Waseda University, one of Japan's top universities, signed a provisional agreement Monday under which the two will cooperate in training of computer software engineers.
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BRUSSELS - Software makers Sun Microsystems Inc. and RealNetworks Inc., two companies that have much to gain if European Union regulators force Microsoft to change the way it operates, presented their arguments on the third and final day of a closed-door hearing in the antitrust case Friday.
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The software heavyweight says it's improving third-party access to its Office 2003 documents by publishing the underlying XML schemas, or file formats, for three of its Office 2003 applications.
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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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Downloaders are discovering some problems with the latest bunch of security patches that Microsoft delivered on Tuesday.
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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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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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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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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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