A group of states led by California said in a court filing Thursday that ending oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Windows Vista.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Kanaracus
- August 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A public beta will be available in a few weeks
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- August 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Although Microsoft didn't mention it in today's announcement about the upcoming release of Windows Vista SP1, the company confirmed today that one of the major changes will be to open up desktop search functionality to competition.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- August 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows XP's first service pack in nearly four years should be pushed out the door some time around mid-2008, according to Microsoft.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- August 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's delay-plagued next-generation server OS, is being delayed yet again.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- August 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If there's one feature in Windows Vista that's almost universally reviled, it's User Account Control, or UAC. But help may be on the way in the form of BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- August 28, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Shares of EarthLink Inc. climbed more than 6 percent Tuesday after the Internet service provider said it would cut 900 jobs -- or about half its work force -- and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 28, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. will distribute free software to nonprofit groups to boost charity in India, a company official said Monday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM, following the kickoff of its IBM  Federal SOA Institute in April, has announced a new certification and training  program.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- August 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free. This is especially true in the realm of computer software licensing, where the question isn't if one has to pay for program use and development but rather how, to whom and when.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- August 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Outage unlikely to cause current users to give up on the Internet phone service and consider problems like these to be an acceptable inconvenience. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    WSO2 has released two new open source products for  developers of Web services applications. The company is currently offering its  Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) 1.0 product, as well as its Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 1.0 product.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- August 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An organization that certifies computer software as consumer-friendly and noninvasive has suspended comScore Inc. and one of its programs used to track Internet usage.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Vouchers for those who ordered back in June will finally get the voucher codes in September, when Windows Server 2008 transition exam goes into beta testing.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- August 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Levanta is offering a virtual machine version of its Linux life-cycle management product that's similar to the company's flagship physical  appliance. The product, called Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance, is  available as a free software download.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- August 23, 2007