SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application and instead will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings.
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The software maker is exploring ways to make search systems a greater part of its Windows operating system and to make searches better tailored to individual needs.
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Industry sites are reporting that Microsoft will be showing off a prototype of the next Xbox, code-named Xenon, in March at the Game Developers Conference.
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Microsoft has appointed a senior executive to a new position in Europe to improve relationships with governments across the continent, a move apparently designed to counter interest in open source software there.
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Microsoft said Friday that it received preliminary approval for settlement in a class-action antitrust suit with consumers in Tennessee.
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The software maker reaches agreements intended to deepen its ties with the Chinese government, even as the country's officials enlist rival Sun in a nationwide open-source push.
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Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $18.33 million to settle class action lawsuits in North Dakota and South Dakota that alleged the vendor overcharged for its software.
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Check out Pete Rysavy's Tabula PC blog. He shows off some screen shots from the new Lonestar Tablet PC OS release and talks up some of the key features, like improved handwriting recognition, a better input panel, and new ink-browser controls.
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The Danish government is acting as a central repository for the XML schemas for Microsoft Word 2003. At the same time, Microsoft has made its Word schemas downloadable from its own Web site. And Microsoft plans to expand its list of publicly available schemas on December 5, to include those for Excel 2003 and InfoPath 2003, as well, according to the download site.
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Microsoft's online service reached an important milestone when it posted its first quarter of operating profitability--but that doesn't mean its problems are behind it.
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Microsoft launched a beta of its new MSN Newsbot online news service yesterday. MSN Newsbot has no connection with MSNBot, the prototype Web crawler from the same MSN Search team working on MSN Newsbot.
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The software giant experiments with an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market.
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The software giant confirms plans that it will launch its own music-download store, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.
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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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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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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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