Microsoft Corp. faces a trial in a patent infringement suit over the "autoplay" feature in Windows that automatically starts an application after storage media is loaded into a PC.
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With contracts coming up for renewal this year, many Microsoft customers will have the opportunity to pass judgment on the company's software maintenance plan. Some analysts see the looming contract expirations as the biggest challenge yet for the much-critiqued SA (Software Assurance) program.
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The company signs agreements with resellers ScanSource and Tech Data to distribute its software geared for high-tech cash registers.
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The alliance will see the two companies working closely together to develop digital media content and delivery systems.
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A court rules that Microsoft did not violate a set of controversial voice digitization patents, in a case that could have roiled the VoIP and computer industries if the patents had been upheld as valid.
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Microsoft has rehired a former Internet Explorer marketing exec Suzan DelBene to replace its former wireless chief Juha Christensen.
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First MSN launched a test version of its MSNBot Web crawler. Then it launched a beta of a new MSN toolbar. Finally, it's delivered a beta of its new MSN Search engine.
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Recent XML-related patents illustrate the software giant's balancing act between supporting open standards and profiting from its inventions.
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The start of a data flood by PCs infected with the MyDoom.B virus has had little impact on the software giant's Web site, say Internet watchers.
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Microsoft on Monday rolled out Version 2.0 of its Microsoft Business Portal (MBP) portal software for small/mid-size businesses.
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DirectX 9.0b, a fairly minor update to Microsoft's DirectX API, is getting closer. Beta 1 of the software development kit is due out this summer.
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Microsoft's posting a $250,000 reward for information resulting in the arrest of the author of the Doom.B variant of the fast-spreading worm that hit Windows users this week.
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The Redmond software company is wrapping up trials of its hosted security technologies. What, if anything, can consumers expect next?
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The software maker says it won't change Windows or Internet Explorer until its efforts to appeal Eolas Technologies' suit or invalidate the patent are settled.
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The software giant sounds a cautionary note with financial analysts, saying revenue growth in the next fiscal year will likely not match that of recent years.
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Microsoft released a beta, or test version, of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 software on Tuesday. The product is designed to offer an improved application-layer firewall, a stronger virtual private network (VPN), and expanded Web-caching capabilities, in order to provide users with increased network security and performance.
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Microsoft plans to start testing a new version of Windows XP Media Center, an increasingly important operating system for entertainment-oriented PCs.
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With the MyDoom virus spreading rapidly Monday, Microsoft honcho Bill Gates points to the silver lining in such attacks and warns against complacency regarding non-Windows operating systems.
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Microsoft Corp. is committed to the SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) market for CRM (customer relationship management) software, and is working with partners on hosted versions of its product to make it more accessible, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Monday.
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A conclusion to the six year-long European antitrust case against Microsoft is imminent, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Monday.
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